But if the administration of justice, police and jails included, is both so universal a concern, and so much a matter of general science, independent of local peculiarities, that it may be, and ought to be, uniformly regulated throughout the country, and its regulation enforced by more trained and skillful hands than those of purely local authorities, there is also business, such as the administration of the poor-laws, sanitary regulation, and others, which, while really interesting to the whole country, can not, consistently with the very purposes of local administration, be managed otherwise than by the localities.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

The Roman fathers, upon hearing the name of Numa, although they perceived that the scale of power would incline to the Sabines if a king were chosen from them, yet none of them ventured to prefer himself, or any other of his party, or any of the citizens or fathers, to that person, but unanimously resolved that the kingdom should be conferred on Numa Pompilius.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

Many of the species of the larger genera resemble varieties in being very closely, but unequally, related to each other, and in having restricted ranges.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

And they did look beautiful, where at intervals the level rays of the sun penetrating the thickness of trees and shrubs on the opposite side of the path before us, relieved their dusky verdure by displaying patches of semi-transparent leaves of resplendent golden green.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

He consequently gave way to a fit of wrath; but upon recalling to mind the charms of lady Feng's face, he felt again extremely aggrieved that he could not there and then clasp her in his embrace, and as he indulged in these wild thoughts and fanciful ideas, he could not the whole night long close his eyes.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

For which reason the things of time are to be used rather than enjoyed, that we may deserve to enjoy things eternal; and not as those perverse creatures who would fain enjoy money and use God,—not spending money for God's sake, but worshipping God for money's sake.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Directly before us, rose the perpendicular height of four or five hundred feet.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

Alarmed at the news, he still continued to co-operate with the Lacedaemonians, but utterly refused to trust his person among them.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

The Globe pointed out this sad defect in reviewing the present edition:—“The copy beside us,” remarks the writer, “is apparently edited and published by Mr. Hotten, who gives a preface—which has the rare merit of explaining exactly what the ordinary English reader requires to know of satirical political poems, written in the Yankee dialect, touching the Mexican war, and the extension of the slave states—and of attempting to explain nothing else.”
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

And there is a kind of sacredness attached to the memory of the great and the good, which seems to bid us repulse the scepticism which would allegorize their existence into a pleasing apologue, and measure the giants of intellect by an homaeopathic dynameter.
— from The Odyssey by Homer

After the widower, however, had made a fruitless effort to obtain the hand of her successor, and had been unequivocally repulsed, the commissioners again met in February, 1559, at Cateau Cambresis.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

He leaped from the big, ugly racer to help her in, stopped and looked at her light clothing.
— from The Foolish Virgin by Dixon, Thomas, Jr.

When the connection between levels is completed, a miner standing at the bottom usually refers to the opening as a rise, and when he goes to the top he calls it a winze.
— from Principles of Mining: Valuation, Organization and Administration by Herbert Hoover

Some fibres were found by him to have the appearance of branching upon reaching the surface of the capsule, others of passing through it and of seemingly ending among the cells of the lens.
— from The Cubomedusæ by Franklin Story Conant

Aramis, while this is going on, has grown friendly with the governor of the Bastile, M. de Baisemeaux, a fact that Baisemeaux unwittingly reveals to D’Artagnan while inquiring of him as to Aramis’s whereabouts.
— from Louise de la Valliere by Alexandre Dumas

Was he now bent upon recovering the paper?
— from Mrs Peixada by Henry Harland

But gradually order came out of chaos; the big, heavily booted, blue-clad “bobbies” shooed and berated and shoved and ordered and helped and at last, with a toot of the whistle, the gang plank was drawn in, the mooring lines were cast off and loaded to the gunwales, the little steamer swung into the swirling muddy stream and poked her blunt bow up river to the deafening cheers, farewells, and parting shouts of the kaleidoscopic crowd upon the stelling.
— from The Radio Detectives in the Jungle by A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt) Verrill

His admirer, Butler, upon returning to partnership with him in 1820, wrote indeed to an intimate friend, Jesse Hoyt (destined afterwards to bring grief and scandal upon both the partners), that if he were Van Buren he "would let politics alone," and become
— from Martin Van Buren by Edward Morse Shepard