In the various cities, towns, and villages, the welfare of the boy scouts is cared for by local councils, and these councils, like the National Council are composed of men who are seeking for the boys of the community the very best things.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

And therefore it is that they called it sacred and divine, and conceive that nothing but the violence of tyrants and the baseness of the common people are inimical to it.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Againe, men have no pleasure, (but on the contrary a great deale of griefe) in keeping company, where there is no power able to over-awe them all.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

47 Note 42 ( return ) [ Julian excludes Maxentius from the banquet of the Caesars with abhorrence and contempt; and Zosimus (l. ii.
— 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

Oh, I am so tempted to do a fried-fish scheme, with the backs of the chairs shaped like frying pans and lovely chip potatoes embroidered all over the curtains.”
— from Bliss, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

Under the influence of this feeling Sónya, whose life of dependence had taught her involuntarily to be secretive, having answered the countess in vague general terms, avoided talking with her and resolved to wait till she should see Nicholas, not in order to set him free but on the contrary at that meeting to bind him to her forever.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

The North Americans generally are much more disposed to value people according to the estimate they form of their industry, and other qualities which more directly lead to the acquisition of property, and to the benefit of the community, than for their present and actual wealth.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

The crashing advance of the industrial age of gold thrust all courts and their sinuous graces aside for the unmistakable ledger balance of the counting-house.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

[Lewis, September 17, 1804] Sept. 17th one of the hunters killed a bird of the Corvus genus and order of the pica & about the size of a jack-daw with a remarkable long tale.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

That is to say, it (the bag) was drawn over the whole bottom of the car, up its sides, and so on, along the outside of the ropes, to the upper rim or hoop where the net-work is attached.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

"Where have you boys been?" asked Laura, when they reappeared, after having brushed off their clothing.
— from Dave Porter at Star Ranch; Or, The Cowboy's Secret by Edward Stratemeyer

For a few moments Fan did not know what to do to save herself; then all at once the memory of some old violent wrangle came to her aid, and springing forward she blew out the candle and softly retreated to a corner of the room, where she remained silent and expectant.
— from Fan : The Story of a Young Girl's Life by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

A Chinaman came out of the house and, seeing the red brassard of the correspondents on my arm, thought I was a doctor.
— from The Puppet Show of Memory by Maurice Baring

[305] And it was no uncommon sight, a hundred years ago, to see members stretched at full length on the benches of the Chamber, with their feet resting on the backs of the seats in front of them, punctuating the proceedings with their stertorous snores.
— from The Mother of Parliaments by Harry Graham

Those claims are the big bet of this camp, and he knows it."
— from Rimrock Trail by Dunn, J. Allan, (Joseph Allan)

In so doing, however, the weaker phagocytes succumb to the struggle, while those which are left alive within the body of the convalescent patient possess the power of resisting and destroying the particular microbe which had undertaken the invasion.
— from Darwinism and Race Progress by John Berry Haycraft

Does the mother dream long dreams as she bends over the cradle?
— from The Expositor's Bible: Judges and Ruth by Robert A. (Robert Alexander) Watson