The members of this little community then sent a memorial to the marquis of Pianessa, one of the duke's general officers, setting forth, "That they were sorry, upon any occasion, to be under the necessity of taking up arms; but that the secret approach of a body of troops, without any reason assigned, or any previous notice sent of the purpose of their coming, had greatly alarmed them; that as it was their custom never to suffer any of the military to enter their little community, they had repelled force by force, and should do so again; but in all other respects, they professed themselves dutiful, obedient, and loyal subjects to their sovereign, the duke of Savoy."
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

She walked away to the window, dismayed by these demonstrations, and both of them were already regretting what they had said and both were asking themselves in confusion: "Why has this happened?" "If only you knew how miserable I am!"
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

For in the very necessity of that which is purposive, and is constituted just as if it were designedly intended for our use,—but at the same time seems to belong originally to the being of things without any reference to our use—lies the ground of our great admiration of nature, and that not so much external as in our own Reason.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

We Russians no sooner arrive at the brink of the water, and realize that we are really at the brink, than we are so delighted with the outlook that in we plunge and swim to the farthest point we can see.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

He soon came to the seashore; and the water was quite black and muddy, and a mighty whirlwind blew over the waves and rolled them about, but he went as near as he could to the water’s brink, and said: ‘O man of the sea!
— from Grimms' Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm

The sachsen (bones of the wings) are rolled up at the ends like a snail, and the pinions (like the talons) take a vertical downward direction.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

The well-known badges of the white and red roses of York and Lancaster have been already referred to, and Fig.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

The little stream ran into the churchyard under a tiny archway in the bottom of the wall, and ran out again, after a winding course of a few dozen yards, under a similar opening.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

The one half of the west side of Lambard hill lane being of this ward, at the north-west end thereof, on the south side, and at the west end of St. Mary Magdalen’s church on the north side beginneth Knightriders street to be of this ward, and runneth west on both sides to the parish church of St. Andrew by the Wardrobe.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

Cornels and salvage berries of the wood, And roots and herbs, have been my meager food.
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

The morsel of village street was on one bank of the water, a row of irregular houses, in the midst of which flourished two shops; while at the south end, as it was called, a little inn projected across the road, giving, with this corner, and the open space which it sheltered, an air of village coziness to the place which its size scarcely warranted.
— from The Laird of Norlaw; A Scottish Story by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

Interest of another kind may be found in the architecture of the Earl of Lovelace’s beautiful seat, Ockham Park, that borders the road, just before entering the village; and in the ruins of Newark Abbey, that lie on the banks of the Wey, across Ripley Green.
— from The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries: To-Day and in Days of Old by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper

Yet the oldest books of the world are remarkable and interesting on account of their very age; and the works which have influenced the opinions, or charmed the leisure hours, of millions of men in distant times and far-away regions are well worth reading on that very account, even if to us they seem scarcely to deserve their reputation.
— from The Pleasures of Life by Lubbock, John, Sir

The timepiece pointed towards ten o’clock, but the tea-things were on the table, prepared for a meal, the lamp shone with a sort of consciousness, and Ethel moved restlessly about, sometimes settling her tea equipage, sometimes putting away a stray book, or resorting by turns to her book, or to work a red and gold scroll on coarse canvas, on the other end of which Meta was employed.
— from The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

The zoospores may lose their cilia, fall to the bottom of the water as green spores, and 186 reproduce a facsimile of the parent plant as buds do, or they may acquire a cellulose coat, undergo the transformations and change of colour mentioned, and sink to the bottom of the water as red winter spores.
— from On Molecular and Microscopic Science, Volume 1 (of 2) by Mary Somerville

Throwing out his facts as he saw them, one by one, there was a ring of conviction in his voice.
— from The Rangeland Avenger by Max Brand

And it is to be observed that, when a regular criminal law with an apparatus of Courts and officers for its administration had afterwards come into being, the old procedure, as might be supposed from its conformity with theory, still in strictness remained practicable; and, much as resort to such an expedient was discredited, the people of Rome always retained the power of punishing by a special 220 law offences against its majesty.
— from Ancient Law: Its Connection to the History of Early Society by Maine, Henry Sumner, Sir

From the court of Lions you enter various {226} halls, each of them distinguished by the singularity, and some by the beauty of their walls and roofs, which are of the same materials as those of the Alcazar of Seville, but of better workmanship, and more vivid in colour.
— from Spain in 1830, vol. 2 by Henry D. (Henry David) Inglis

At that point agricultural productions for the markets of Paris, which warrant rentals on long leases (collected often by other tenants who are rich themselves), cease to be cultivated.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac