Moreover, nothing then would be immoral, everything would be lawful, even cannibalism.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

While her husband still slept, little by little, evening came....
— from The Bet, and other stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Combat at least has terrain, order of battle, logistics, estimated capabilities and other concrete factors with which to figure.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

Elias taught throughout, as George Fox began it, or rather reiterated and verified it, the Platonic doctrine that the ideals of character, of justice, of religious action, whenever the highest is at stake, are to be conform'd to no outside doctrine of creeds, Bibles, legislative enactments, conventionalities, or even decorums, but are to follow the inward Deity-planted law of the emotional soul.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

The Spanish Armada was one of the earliest of those influences which, reënforced by later events, culminated in the life work of José Rizal and the loss of the Philippines by Spain.
— from Lineage, Life and Labors of José Rizal, Philippine Patriot by Austin Craig

One of these boats left each city at five o’clock in the afternoon and performed the ocean voyage
— from The Modern Railroad by Edward Hungerford

The reason why the lower class of people were most liable to it seemed to be their “negligence in the article of cooling after heats by labour, exercise, &c.”
— from A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume 2 (of 2) From the Extinction of Plague to the Present Time by Charles Creighton

Some complaint having been made respecting Captain Boone's surrender of his party at the Blue Licks, and other parts of his military conduct, his friends Colonel Richard Callaway and Colonel Benjamin Logan, exhibited charges against him which occasioned his being tried by court-martial.
— from Life of Daniel Boone, the Great Western Hunter and Pioneer by Cecil B. Hartley

That was my point of view before I went to Africa, but later experiences caused the point of view to shift considerably.
— from In Africa: Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country by John T. (John Tinney) McCutcheon

Of course he didn't have anything else to study—no bugbears like English Composition, Latin or Greek, so perhaps that is why he did so well in the Engineering.
— from Bobbie, General Manager: A Novel by Olive Higgins Prouty

" South Carolina in 1805, by legislative enactment, ceded to the United States, in Charleston Harbor and on Beaufort River, various forts and fortifications, and sites for the erection of forts, on the following conditions, viz.: "That, if the United States shall not, within three years from the passing of this act, and notification thereof by the Governor of this State to the Executive of the United States, repair the fortifications now existing thereon or build such other forts or fortifications as may be deemed most expedient by the Executive of the United States on the same, and keep a garrison or garrisons therein; in such case this grant or cession shall be void and of no effect.
— from The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 1 by Jefferson Davis