For otherwise the diminution of the interest would never produce a relaxation of the morality, and reconcile us more easily to any transgression of justice among princes and republics, than in the private commerce of one subject with another.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

The earl recommended it to her strongly, and reckoned up many excellent achievements of King Olaf's.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

Why not "98" or "4"?—he was testing internal rebellion), flashed a reflector under my eyes, seized a drumstick and hammered me under my knee-joints, sat upon me literally and figuratively, and told me to give up all food, drink, pleasure, and work for two months, which I did.
— from The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 2 by Harry Furniss

Real approximation, real union must ever be in proportion to mutual truthfulness.
— from Home Again by George MacDonald

[Pg 272] So strong a military power as this on the frontier made it imperative to place the Transvaal, or South African Republic, under more effective rule than that of the Boers.
— from The World and Its People, Book VII: Views in Africa by Anna B. Badlam

Their aim, in their endeavour to separate the nation from the Emperor, is, to disunite us, in order to vanquish us, and replunge us more easily into that degradation and slavery, from which his return delivered us.
— from Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. II by Fleury de Chaboulon, Pierre Alexandre Édouard, baron

His eyes traveled down one side of the table, past his friend Lydia, to Sammy, intent now upon his supper; flyaway Cora, never still a minute; big Joe, little Joe, Josephine, and Joey; freckled little Freddy; and rested upon Mary Ellen presiding sedately over the foot of the table.
— from Little Friend Lydia by Ethel Calvert Phillips

She was a very bright, handsome woman, whose fine education had been supplemented by travel, society, and a rather unhappy matrimonial experience.
— from A Rose of a Hundred Leaves: A Love Story by Amelia E. Barr

Alberti, Raphael u. Mozart: eine Parallele (Stettin, 1856).
— from Life of Mozart, Vol. 3 (of 3) by Otto Jahn

For the Provinces to have encountered Spain and Rome without Calvinism, and relying upon municipal enthusiasm only, would have been to throw away the sword and fight with the scabbard.
— from Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War — Complete (1609-15) by John Lothrop Motley

By close attention I made such great progress, that my new patron, although at first somewhat cold towards me, who had been forced into his service, became attached to me, and relied upon me entirely.
— from The Forgery; or, Best Intentions. by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James