Mr. Motley said, in the course of his conversation, “At present, the United States government, while withdrawing neither its national claims nor the claims of its individual citizens against the British government,” etc.
— from John Lothrop Motley, A Memoir — Complete by Oliver Wendell Holmes

She ran toward a piece of water, shook one of her legs lightly to cast off her shoe, and began to dabble her foot, white as alabaster, in the current, admiring, perhaps, the undulations she thus produced upon the surface of the water.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

He admired their constancy and pitied their unmerited sufferings.
— from The Martyr of the Catacombs A Tale of Ancient Rome by James De Mille

Captain Andreas perceiving their uneasiness, sent a canoe back up the river, which returned before sunset with some of the land party, and intelligence that the rest were near at hand.
— from History of the Buccaneers of America by James Burney

United Nations University's UNL Center will work with its partners to create and promote the UNL software, which will be compatible with popular network servers and computing platforms."
— from Multilingualism on the Web by Marie Lebert

A man meets with an accident—he is mortally wounded in battle—crushed by a railway accident—burnt in a fire—all but drowned in water—sick of a fatal malady lingering with vain hopes and vainer love of life—the marked victim of consumption—these all have their immediate and most excruciating tortures benumbed or alleviated by the skill of the physician; or, if there is hope of life, the whispering of that hope falls from their lips like precious balm of Gilead imbuing them with courage and patience to undergo suffering, for great beyond measure is the tenaciousness to life.
— from The Thistle and the Cedar of Lebanon by Habeeb Risk Allah

[232] solved the Caribbean problem, shattered national ideas deep rooted in the prepossessions of a century, and planted the United States in Asia, face to face with the great world problem of the immediate future?
— from Lessons of the war with Spain and other articles by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

The primary power is the same in each case, and perhaps the untutored savage has the more brawny arm of the two.
— from Science & Education: Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley

et doit décider les mesures à prendre en vue de faire cesser au plus tôt une situation de nature à
— from The Geneva Protocol by David Hunter Miller

14222 Thus matters in Syria had to be left in a confused and unsettled state, until such time as the Great King could revisit the scene of his conquests, and place them upon some definite and satisfactory footing.
— from History of Phoenicia by George Rawlinson