Bonn.—M.] Note 4 ( return ) [ Philelphus, by a Latin ode, requested and obtained the liberty of his wife's mother and sisters from the conqueror of Constantinople.
— 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

Now the Idea of the comprehension of every phenomenon that can be given us in the intuition of a whole, is an Idea prescribed to us by a law of Reason, which recognises no other measure, definite, valid for every one, and invariable, than the absolute whole.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

During the delivery of the oration, Mrs. Weller sobbed and wept at the end of the paragraphs; while Sam, sitting cross-legged on a chair and resting his arms on the top rail, regarded the speaker with great suavity and blandness of demeanour; occasionally bestowing a look of recognition on the old gentleman, who was delighted at the beginning, and went to sleep about half-way.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

I have heard it ingeniously observed by a lady of rank and elegance, that 'his melancholy was then at its meridian.'
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

Because the Rabbit had to lie down and lose the race the conjurer now, when preparing his young men for the ball play, boils a lot of rabbit hamstrings into a soup, and sends some one at night to pour it across the path along which the other players are to come in the morning, so that they may become tired in the same way and lose the game.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

When she had thoroughly estimated him at this, she would move on and wait for him before a Lely or Reynolds.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

He delivered one of mine to Heloise , who, according to my appointment was ready at the end of a garden, the wall of which I scaled by a ladder of ropes.
— from Letters of Abelard and Heloise To which is prefix'd a particular account of their lives, amours, and misfortunes by Héloïse

And more than this, if, according to the opinion of those with whom we are now arguing, the gods are to be worshipped, not on account of the present life, but of that which is to be after death, then, certainly, they are not to be worshipped on account of those particular things which are distributed and portioned out (not by any law of rational truth, but by mere vain conjecture) to the power of such gods, as they believe they ought to be worshipped, who contend that their worship is necessary for all the desirable things of this mortal life, against whom I have disputed sufficiently, as far as I was able, in the five preceding books.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Except the Pride of Banya , lying out beyond a lump of rocks towards the line of the sea.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

The otherwise clear water was marred by a ledge of rock which stretched from one side of the pool to the other and came so near the surface as to give a suggestion of muddiness to the water.
— from The Rider of Waroona by G. Firth Scott

The doors of a coved ante-chamber flew open, and after passing through an enfilade of saloons peopled with ladies-in-waiting and pages, (some mere children,) we entered a lofty chamber hung with white satin, formed into compartments by a rich embroidery of gold and colours, and illuminated by a lustre of rock crystal.
— from Italy; with sketches of Spain and Portugal by William Beckford

Whether one does not persuade oneself into believing a lot of rot, if one's got a part to play in the comedy oneself?"
— from The Road to the Open by Arthur Schnitzler

These being somewhat indefinite, and the republic in question being a land of revolutions and uprisings, but little attention was given these vague reports.
— from Where Duty Called; or, In Honor Bound by George Waldo Browne

They will work as long as you let them please themselves, but let any pressure come and you immediately run up against, not the grace of resignation, but a letter of resignation, withdrawing from some important trust, and arousing a whole community of criticising friends, equally disposed to have their own opinions and their own will about it.
— from Days of Heaven Upon Earth by A. B. (Albert B.) Simpson

But a lack of readiness on their part would convert the boon into a calamity.
— from Saturday Night Thoughts A Series of Dissertations on Spiritual, Historical, and Philosophic Themes by Orson F. (Orson Ferguson) Whitney

Behind a ledge of rocks, Doctor Tusten had been dressing the wounds of the injured during the day.
— from The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, Vol. 1 (of 2) or, Illustrations, by Pen And Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence by Benson John Lossing

You'll excuse the nature of our visit, sir, but you see my husband ( blushes a little )—or rather I should have said the man who is to be my husband— Dill ( to Gloria ).
— from The convolvulus: a comedy in three acts by Allen Norton

Blest Continent, while groaning nations round Bend to the servile yoke, ignobly bound, May ye be free—nor ever be opprest By murd'ring tyrants, but a land of rest!
— from The Fall of British Tyranny American Liberty Triumphant by John Leacock

In general, the Zionist societies have formed the chief social centers of the ghetto, [38] have opened religious schools [39] and libraries, [40] have brought the radicals in religion under the influence of the national idea, [41] and so prevented the loss of religion from being followed by a loss of race-consciousness, and have "enlisted the sympathies of the older people.
— from The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915 by Various