" The king himself, also, is said to have addressed him in words, which show that the sense of rank will sometimes confer a virtue upon those who seem to be most unworthy of the lot to which they have been born: "Lord Nelson, do you wish that your name alone should pass with honour to posterity; and that I, Ferdinand Bourbon, should appear ungrateful?"
— from The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey

After traveling on some time he found his brother lying nearly dead beside a great greensnake ( sălikwâ′yĭ ) which had attacked him.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

The marshals and generals, who were nearer to the field of battle but, like Napoleon, did not take part in the actual fighting and only occasionally went within musket range, made their own arrangements without asking Napoleon and issued orders where and in what direction to fire and where cavalry should gallop and infantry should run.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Thus the great end of all philosophy--the "larger synthesis"--was attained, but the process was arduous, and while Adams, as the older member, assumed to declare the principle, Bay Lodge necessarily denied both the assumption and the principle in order to assure its truth.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

BRISSAILLE (laughing): Not drunk as yet?
— from Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand

'For,' he says, 'I do not write Histories, but Lives; nor do the most conspicuous acts of necessity exhibit a man's virtue or his vice, but oftentimes some slight circumstance, a word, or a jest, shows a man's character better than battles with the slaughter of tens of thousands, and the greatest arrays of armies and sieges of cities.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

When he had finished, the wretch protruded his black lips, no doubt, with the object of kissing the beautiful hand which had just succoured him.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

“Weel,” cried another, “thae fa's are just bonnie; 'tis a braw land, nae doubt; but no' just so braw as auld Scotland.”
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

Ils y sont,mais il faut les trouver: rubrique "Electronics", et browser le nom de l'objet.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

And now opens the little bay, Havre de Roselle , a beautiful rocky basin, bounded by Le Nez du Guet and Le Couperose , and spotted with three rocklets, and possessing a barrack.
— from The Islets of the Channel by Walter Cooper Dendy

The indigestion will carry him off before long, no doubt," Lucien said, as he made an end, "and then I will look down on these proud people; I will marry Mme.
— from Lost Illusions by Honoré de Balzac

ROTHSCHILD, Baron Lionel Nathan De, M.P. Prince’s Gate Kingston House .
— from The Aristocracy of London: Part I: Kensington Titled, Untitled, Professional, & Commercial by Anonymous

He must be led, not driven."
— from A Daughter of the Dons: A Story of New Mexico Today by William MacLeod Raine

The Princess had more than once termed him ironically the Prince of the Whigs ; and his Grace having dared to desert from Fox’s banner, left no doubt of the latter having contributed to irritate the prejudice already conceived.
— from Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Third, Volume 1 (of 4) by Horace Walpole

In the passage reproduced from ourselves we neither accept nor reject the definition of substance given by Leibnitz, nor do we say that Cousin accepts it, although he certainly favors it in his introduction to the Posthumous Works of Maine de Biran , and adduces the fact of his having adopted it in his defence against the charge of pantheism, [Footnote 39] but simply argue that, if any one should adopt it and urge it as an argument for Cousin, it would be of no avail, because Leibnitz does not pretend that substance is or must be active outside of itself, or out of its own interior, that is, must be creative of exterior effects.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 07, April 1868 to September, 1868 by Various

He was conscious, though he spoke but little, nor did poor Tom seek to induce him to talk.
— from The Young Engineers in Nevada; Or, Seeking Fortune on the Turn of a Pick by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

But let no Dai or Mazûn read it to a woman until he is well assured of her faith and her religion, and she shall have made a written profession of her faith.
— from The Women of the Arabs by Henry Harris Jessup