We have no idea what it means for a people to have these sympathetic forces at its side, as France had in its creation of forms, England and America in civilization and democracy, Russia in Slavonic orthodoxy and the neutral States in their internationalism.
— from The New Society by Walther Rathenau

The method of the overseer is short and simple: apart from considerations of morality, conscience, and divine retribution, it seemed a short road to the accomplishment of his purpose.
— from The Parables of Our Lord by William Arnot

On the following day the same journal contained another detailed report: "In spite of official appeals to the public to display self-possession in these serious times, the nationalist mob continues to behave in the most scandalous manner, both in the streets and public restaurants, etc.
— from What Germany Thinks Or, The War as Germans see it by Thomas F. A. Smith

Both Curtis and Devar read into Steingall's muttered injunction the belief that the hunt had ended for the night.
— from One Wonderful Night: A Romance of New York by Louis Tracy

Comte Albert de Rudolstadt is subject to nervous fits and to great lethargy.
— from George Sand: Some Aspects of Her Life and Writings by René Doumic

If we have not keenly enjoyed the Falstaff scenes of the two plays, if we regard Sir John chiefly as an old reprobate, not only a sensualist, a liar, and a coward, but a cruel and dangerous ruffian, I suppose we enjoy his discomfiture and consider that the King has behaved magnificently.
— from Oxford Lectures on Poetry by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

When at night the quilt falls off I begin to dream of huge slippery stones, of cold autumnal water, naked banks—and all this dim, misty, without a patch of blue sky; sad and dejected like one who has lost his way, I look at the stones and feel that for some reason I cannot avoid crossing a deep river; I see then small tugs that drag huge barges, floating beams....
— from Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Few came, as did Rhodes, in search of health, and few, again, were drawn thither by the pure love of adventure.
— from Cecil Rhodes, Man and Empire-Maker by Radziwill, Catherine, Princess

At last, after no end of ‘casus’ and ‘discrimina rerum’, I shall sail on Saturday the 10th, per ship Camperdown , for East India Docks.
— from Letters from the Cape by Duff Gordon, Lucie, Lady