Nietzsche's voice has as yet hardly been lifted in this country; and, until it is fully heard, both masses and classes will calmly proceed on their way to the extremes of democracy and anarchy, as they now appear to be doing.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Then Creed and I (the other being lost in the crowd) to drink a cup of ale at Temple Bar, and there we parted, and I (seeing my father and mother by the way) went home.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

We are country folks in our ways, though we be livin' in the city, and we have a reg'lar country dinner Sundays.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

But ’tis a common proof, That lowliness is young ambition’s ladder, Whereto the climber-upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

The coachman and Alyoshka went out too, so as not to be left in the coach-house.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

2874 So called because it was dedicated by Lucullus in the Capitol.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

I should have looked out beforehand some stone weighing a hundredweight or more which had been lying in the corner from the time the house was built.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It was later revised and included in the book Life in the Clearings versus the Bush by the same author.)
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

The shavings on top of the pyre were lighted and then the wood caught fire and a brilliant light illumined the cliff, the shingle and the foam of the waves as they broke on the beach.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

= αὐτοῦ. The name itself is written Nympha, which according to the transliteration of this version might stand either for a masculine (as Barnaba , Luka , in the context, for Βαρναβας, Λουκᾶς) or for a feminine (since Demas , Epaphras , are written with an s )
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

Of course there is a great deal of difference between life in the country and life in town, and from a policeman's view it perhaps appears greater than it does to anybody else; and whereas I had often wondered how anybody could be detected in London, I was equally surprised to think how anybody could hope to escape in the country; for, excepting when strangers came down on some carefully planned burglary, we could nearly always tell where to look for our men if anything went wrong; in short, I knew everybody.
— from Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 710 August 4, 1877 by Various

If so, all I can promise you is twenty thousand acres of the best land in the country when we get it.”
— from Marie: An Episode in the Life of the Late Allan Quatermain by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

Those who handled the Lincoln set grew weary, it is said, of the constant breakage and became convinced that not careless handling but “bad luck in the china itself” was destroying both the dishes and the patience of those who were responsible for them.
— from White House China of the Lincoln Administration in the Museum of History and Technology by Margaret Brown Klapthor

By following, therefore, the ocean along the coasts of Nova Zembla and Jelmorland, these lands are discoverable as far as the mouth of Chotanga, which is about the 73d degree, beyond which there is an unknown coast of about 200 leagues: we have only an account of them from the Muscovites, who have travelled by land into those climates; they state the country to be uninterrupted, have marked out the rivers [9] in their charts, and called the people populi palati .
— from Buffon's Natural History, Volume 02 (of 10) Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Mineral, &c. &c by Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de

Yet I believe it is one of the most beautiful lakes in this country.
— from Tenting To-night A Chronicle of Sport and Adventure in Glacier Park and the Cascade Mountains by Mary Roberts Rinehart

It is practically certain that both of these monkeys would have succeeded ultimately in solving the problem of obtaining the food had they been left in the cage with a number of boxes, for Skirrl very early indicated interest in moving the boxes about, and Sobke showed a tendency in that direction which perhaps was inhibited partially by his distrust of the experimenter.
— from The Mental Life of Monkeys and Apes: A Study of Ideational Behavior by Robert Mearns Yerkes

And as for the stragglers, by the time they’d caught on to the fact that there was something on the boards besides that drunken Indian, Perley, with the same cool contempt, had slipped his gun back in his pocket and was boosting Lee into the car.
— from On the Iron at Big Cloud by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard

The Great Western Film Company became, through sheer chance, a factor in that problem, and for that reason we have come into rather close touch with them; but aside from the fact that Jean's photo-play brought Lite into the company and later took them both to Los Angeles, this particular picture has no great bearing upon the matter.
— from Jean of the Lazy A by B. M. Bower