Komatsu begged us to tell Sir Harry that it was not the desire of Satsuma and the other daimiôs who acted with him to upset the Baku-fu , but simply to restrain them from misusing their powers.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

It is only in those cases in which the unity of the system of appearances constituting a piece of matter has to be broken up, that the statement of what is happening cannot be made exclusively in terms of matter.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

A few strokes of the oar brought us to the sand, where we ran ashore.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

It was not so much the little less or more that he objected to as the failure to be up to the standard.
— from My Reminiscences by Rabindranath Tagore

Bring us to this sight, and you shall say I'll prove a busy actor in their play.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Indeed, as Mayhew remarks, English Cant seems to be formed on the same basis as the Argot of the French, and the Roth-Spræc of the Germans,—partly metaphorical, and partly by the introduction of such corrupted foreign terms as are likely to be unknown to the society amid which the Cant speakers exist.
— 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

They made no doubt that he had been up to the sky and talked with spirits.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

But that sorrow seemed to have made it itself feebly felt hitherto, now when Adam Bede's tall figure was suddenly seen being ushered to the side of the prisoner's dock.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

However, one bird unique to these shores, which never passes beyond the boundaries of the Aru and Papuan Islands, was missing from this collection.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

The undertakings which bind us to the social body are obligatory only because they are mutual; and their nature is such that in fulfilling them we cannot work for others without working for ourselves.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I’ vain the wafters o’ the breeze Fan my hot brah, I’ vain the birds upon the trees, Sing sweetly
— from Revised Edition of Poems by Bill o'th' Hoylus End

The only one I brought up to the scratch, or rather the rose tree, fled with horror when I showed her what was needed, and vowed she would rather never smell a rose again than do such disgusting work.
— from How the Garden Grew by Maud Maryon

Of coral formation, as soon as it is built up to the surface of the water it crumbles under the action of the sea and sun.
— from Famous Adventures and Prison Escapes of the Civil War by Basil Wilson Duke

But under these the sweat gathered, and he discarded them, resorting to the primitive device of smearing soot all about his eyes.
— from A Man to His Mate by Dunn, J. Allan, (Joseph Allan)

We must break the dearest ties if they do not bind us to the stake—the stake of all we owe to all!
— from Old Friends: Essays in Epistolary Parody by Andrew Lang

They backed up to the stove and began staring at their surroundings curiously.
— from The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales of Adventure by Rex Beach

Every spring is busily employed in bringing up to the surface mineral substances which the water has dissolved out of the underground rocks.
— from The Story of the Hills: A Book About Mountains for General Readers. by H. N. (Henry Neville) Hutchinson

All eyes were bent upon the travel soiled pilgrim,—for he was telling a stirring tale of the martial deeds done in Palestine.
— from The Duke's Prize; a Story of Art and Heart in Florence by Maturin Murray Ballou