From an adjoining room came a noise of angry voices, and General Ivolgin, in loud tones, seemed to be trying to shout them down.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Both these customs are now only a matter of history, but so late as 1879 General Hervey was able to count at the Bikaner palace the handmarks of at least thirty-seven widows who ascended the pyre with their lords.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

Now, take 6 as your multiplier and try to arrange the remaining eight digits so as to produce by multiplication a number containing all nine once, and once only.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

This facilitates our work greatly for here universal considerations are not only applied to facts, but even start from them, while in a synthetic procedure they must strictly be derived in abstracto from concepts.
— from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant

In complex societies the conservatism, which is at once profitably conservative and needlessly obstructing, assumes a more intricate, a more evasive, and a more engaging form.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

For the same reason, though the sea is higher than the earth, yet because it has the like tendency, it is collected everywhere, equally concentres, and never overflows, and is never wasted.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

What When there is mention of the Word of God, or of Man, it doth not signifie a part of Speech, such as Grammarians call a Nown, or a Verb, or any simple voice, without a contexture with other words to make it significative; but a perfect Speech or Discourse, whereby the speaker Affirmeth, Denieth, Commandeth, Promiseth, Threateneth, Wisheth, or Interrogateth.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

And then eight hundred acres of wheat, three hundred of potatoes, and four hundred of clover, and not one acre exhausted.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Is the commodity a necessity or a luxury?
— from Forging Ahead in Business by Alexander Hamilton Institute (U.S.)

Kazakhstan 18 years of age for compulsory military service; conscript service obligation - two years; minimum age for volunteers NA (2004) Kenya 18 years of age (est.) (2004) Korea, North 17 years of age (2004) Korea, South 20-30 years of age for compulsory military service; conscript service obligation - 24-28 months, depending on the military branch involved; 18 years of age for voluntary military service; some 4,000 women serve as commissioned and noncommissioned officers, approx.
— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

At this time the question of iron-clads had attention of naval builders on both sides of the Atlantic; and deeming them indispensable to naval warfare, the Secretary's first movement was a strong memoir to Congress, urging immediate and heavy appropriations for their construction at New Orleans and Mobile.
— from Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death by T. C. (Thomas Cooper) De Leon

Truth to tell, however, the police of Monte Carlo are never over anxious to arrest a criminal, because Monte Carlo attracts the higher criminal class of both sexes from all over Europe.
— from Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo by William Le Queux

[591] As a result of the quarrels certain members of the company made charges against their former manager, Beeston: "The said Beeston having from the beginning a greater care for his own private gain, and not respecting the good of these defendants and the rest of his fellows and companions, hath in the place and trust aforesaid much enriched himself, and hath of late given over his coat and condition, [592] and separated and divided himself from these defendants, carrying away not only all the furniture and apparel," etc.
— from Shakespearean Playhouses A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration by Joseph Quincy Adams

Adam’s children are not of a different disposition from Adam himself, who, after he was arraigned and brought to his trial, boggles not at flinging his dirt in the face of God, his Creator, and accuseth him as if he had given him the woman, not to be his help, but his ruin (Gen. iii. 12); “And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.”
— from The Existence and Attributes of God, Volumes 1 and 2 by Stephen Charnock

"Pray come to us when you take your ride," was loudly re [Pg 5] peated, both by Caroline and Henry, till they were out of his sight, and with a look of kindness, he gave them, what they considered, a nod of assent.
— from Deaf and Dumb! Third Edition by Elizabeth Sandham

Traversing Tern Bridge we presently come to Atcham, a trim, well-cared-for-looking village, with a fine old church close by Severn side, a handsome balustraded bridge spanning the broad river, and memories of Ordericus Vitalis, the historian of William the Conqueror, a native of Atcham.
— from Nooks and Corners of Shropshire by H. Thornhill (Henry Thornhill) Timmins

Desirous to conciliate a nobleman of ancient name and high character, and out of consideration for the great services which Herrera's zeal and talents had rendered the cause, the queen's government had some time previously restored to the Count his confiscated estates.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 367, May 1846 by Various