H2 anchor Secret Cabals If the Soveraign Power be in a great Assembly, and a number of men, part of the Assembly, without authority, consult a part, to contrive the guidance of the rest; This is a Faction, or Conspiracy unlawfull, as being a fraudulent seducing of the Assembly for their particular interest.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

When Ludlow market hums And Ludlow chimes are playing "The conquering hero comes," Come you home a hero, Or come not home at all, The lads you leave will mind you
— from A Shropshire Lad by A. E. (Alfred Edward) Housman

A woman of quality, notorious for her gallantries, though as she still lived with her husband, nobody chose to place her in the class where she ought to have been placed, made a point of treating with the most insulting contempt a poor timid creature, abashed by a sense of her former weakness, whom a neighbouring gentleman had seduced and afterwards married.
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

Pompeianus, præfect of the city, had been persuaded, by the art or fanaticism of some Tuscan diviners, that, by the mysterious force of spells and sacrifices, they could extract the lightning from the clouds, and point those celestial fires against the camp of the Barbarians.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

These, she thought, must be the charm, so she read the directions carefully and put the Cap upon her head.
— from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

Echota, their capital and peace town, “claimed to be the eldest brother in the nation,” and the claim was generally acknowledged.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

The work of settling the text, correcting the canon, and preparing the Commentary has been done by myself.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

[825] Thus, then, shall the Lord be a swift witness, when He shall suddenly bring back into the memory that which shall convince and punish the conscience.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

This is no picture drawn by the imagination, with which flattering critics are pleased to credit me.
— from Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. by Bernard Henry Becker

I rebuked him for his cynicism, and promised to consider and let him know if anything occurred to me.
— from Sport Royal, and Other Stories by Anthony Hope

I made up my mind that Hope and I would wash the poor little creatures and put them comfortably to bed.
— from Uncle Max by Rosa Nouchette Carey

The snow on the slopes above began to move; here and there, on exposed ridges, it rose in clouds and puffs; the clean-cut outlines of the hills became obscured as by a fog; the languid wind bit cruelly.
— from The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales of Adventure by Rex Beach

During the first week her time was wholly taken up, and Pierrette’s too, by frocks to order and try on, chemises and petticoats to cut out and have made by a seamstress who went out by the day.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

She almost wholly forgot how to walk, while she was constantly driving to balls, concerts, and parades, to cockchafer-hunts and fly-chases.
— from The King of Root Valley and his curious daughter by Robert Reinick

These armets are provided with most fantastic crests and plumes, the crown of the helmet being in several cases covered with [Pg 33]
— from Armour in England, from the Earliest Times to the Reign of James the First by John Starkie Gardner