Some critics of the PsyWar operations in the Far East Command charged that there were exaggerated claims of prisoners of war who surrendered as a result of propaganda.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

Bretesche, Bertisca (whence old English Brattice , and Bartizan ), was a term applied to any boarded structure of defence or attack, but especially to the timber parapets and roofs often placed on the top of the flanking-towers in mediaeval fortifications; and this use quite explains the sort of structure here intended.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

His general meaning is that divine creation is perfect, and is represented or presided over by a perfect or cyclical number; human generation is imperfect, and represented or presided over by an imperfect number or series of numbers.
— from The Republic by Plato

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— from Korean Folk Tales: Imps, Ghosts and Faries by Yuk Yi

Nothing delighted you more than to have me tie my piece-bags on your backs for burdens, give you hats and sticks and rolls of paper, and let you travel through the house from the cellar, which was the City of Destruction, up, up, to the house-top, where you had all the lovely things you could collect to make a Celestial City."
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

But Helena, the aged mother of Constantine, lamented and revenged the untimely fate of her grandson Crispus; nor was it long before a real or pretended discovery was made, that Fausta herself entertained a criminal connection with a slave belonging to the Imperial stables.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Who bought and sold their crime and waxed fat and rich on public iniquity?
— from Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

[48] Mr. Hoover, in July, 1919, estimated that the coal output of Europe, excluding Russia and the Balkans, had dropped from 679,500,000 tons to 443,000,000 tons,—as a result in a minor degree of loss of material and labor, but owing chiefly to a relaxation of physical effort after the privations and sufferings of the war, a lack of rolling-stock and transport, and the unsettled political fate of some of the mining districts.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes

The sentiments of honor and gallantry have introduced a refinement of pleasure, a regard for decency, and a respect for the public opinion, into the modern courts of Europe; 601 but the corrupt and opulent nobles of Rome gratified every vice that could be collected from the mighty conflux of nations and manners.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

'Poor instrument,' quoth she, 'without a sound, I'll tune thy woes with my lamenting tongue; And drop sweet balm in Priam's painted wound, And rail on Pyrrhus that hath done him wrong, And with my tears quench Troy that burns so long;
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

An astronomer has made himself a roll of paper for a telescope, and imagines that he is looking at the heavens.
— from Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles by Daniel Hack Tuke

Religion, once the foundation of the laws and rule of personal conduct, had subsided into opinion.
— from Interludes being Two Essays, a Story, and Some Verses by Horace Smith

When government exacts our support of public education, when it comes into our homes and takes our children into its custody and instructs them according to its will, we acquire a right which is as exalted as any right of property, or of person, or of conscience can be, and that is the right to know that the environment is healthful, that the management is kindly and ennobling, and that the instruction is rational and scientific.
— from Report of the Committee of Fifteen Read at the Cleveland Meeting of the Department of Superintendence, February 19-21, 1884, with the Debate by William Torrey Harris

sels were overhauled off the Brazilian coast by the Alabama, where a real or pretended transfer to neutral owners had been made.
— from Cruise and Captures of the Alabama by Albert M. Goodrich

The paste is announced as “warranted to put an edge to a razor or pen-knife superior to anything ever before offered to the public.”
— from London Labour and the London Poor (Vol. 1 of 4) by Henry Mayhew

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— from Some Adventures of Mr. Surelock Keys by Herbert Beeman

"I am released on parole," she said; "I quite understand.
— from The Daughter Pays by Reynolds, Baillie, Mrs.

The moral person who acts well or ill, and awaits reward or punishment, is connected with a body, lives with it, makes use of it, depends upon it in a measure, but is not it .
— from Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike