But if from the industry of a life wholly dedicated to studious labours, and those natural endowments haply not the worst for two and fifty degrees of northern latitude, so much must be derogated, as to count me not equal to any of those who had this privilege, I would obtain to be thought not so inferior, as yourselves are superior to the most of them who received their counsel: and how far you excel them, be assured, Lords and Commons, there can no greater testimony appear, than when your prudent spirit acknowledges and obeys the voice of reason from what quarter soever it be heard speaking; and renders ye as willing to repeal any Act of your own setting forth, as any set forth by your predecessors.
— from Areopagitica A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England by John Milton

His very bulkiness and leisureliness are charming; he writes like a man who had eternity to write in, and who knew enough to fill it, and who expected readers of an equal leisure.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

While the war in the Netherlands lasted, the Dutch control of the sea forced Spain to send her troops by a long and costly journey overland instead of by sea; and the same cause reduced her to such straits for necessaries that, by a mutual arrangement which seems very odd to modern ideas, her wants were supplied by Dutch ships, which thus maintained the enemies of their country, but received in return specie which was welcome in the Amsterdam exchange.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

And sent to his friends ZANOBI BUONDELMONTI And LUIGI ALAMANNI CASTRUCCIO CASTRACANI 1284-1328
— from The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

Yes, Marshall's shaved off his beard at last and cut his hair.
— from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Mr. Nickleby came back, and looked as confused as might be, as he inquired whether the ladies had any commands for him.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Amory sat up in bed and lit a cigarette while Rahill settled for a conversation.
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

But as long as crime is regarded as moral delinquency and punishment savors of vengeance, every possible safeguard and protection must be thrown around the accused.
— from Crime: Its Cause and Treatment by Clarence Darrow

Her golden locks flowed like a queenly mantle from her graceful shoulders, covering her snow-white raiment so that her tenderly-formed body appeared like a cloud of light.
— from Legends of the Rhine by Wilhelm Ruland

But at last a cab appeared and the two girls got in.
— from Patty in Paris by Carolyn Wells

He developed the property somewhat, but it finally passed into other hands, and is now owned by a Los Angeles company, which has opened the mine quite extensively.
— from Old Mines of Southern California Desert-Mountain-Coastal Areas Including the Calico-Salton Sea Colorado River Districts and Southern Counties by Harold W. (Harold Wellman) Fairbanks

We often noticed lumps of a froth-like substance on the bushes as large as cricket-balls, which we could not explain.
— from Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa by David Livingstone

iss Sallianna had bestowed upon the seminary?—when he heard himself accosted by a laughing and careless voice, and raised his head, to see from whom it proceeded.
— from The Last of the Foresters Or, Humors on the Border; A story of the Old Virginia Frontier by John Esten Cooke

Aua has filled his mouth with bark and lime and chewed it till he has a plentiful supply of red saliva.
— from Papuan Pictures by H. M. Dauncey

On the same evening on which he wrote this letter (about May 20-22), the forlorn creature took boat and landed at Calais, where he seems at once to have recovered his composure and a right mind.
— from Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2) by John Morley

The only safe wagon roads to the rear were by a long and circuitous route through the mountains north of the Tennessee River, which was besides so rough and muddy that the teams could haul hardly enough for their own subsistence, much less an adequate supply for the troops.
— from Heroes of the Great Conflict; Life and Services of William Farrar Smith, Major General, United States Volunteer in the Civil War by James Harrison Wilson

It would be a long and costly litigation, I fear.”
— from The Motor Boys Across the Plains; or, The Hermit of Lost Lake by Clarence Young