At their approach the sentry gave the alarm, and the soldiers came out of the guard-house in disorder. Schoelcher, calm, impassive, in ruffles and a white tie, clothed, as usual, in black, buttoned to the neck in his tight frock coat, with the intrepid and brotherly air of a Quaker, walked straight up to them. "Comrades," he said to them, "we are the Representatives of the People, and come in the name of the people to demand your arms for the defence of the Constitution and of the Laws!"
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

Environment has a strong influence upon concentration, until you have learned to be alone in a crowd and undisturbed by clamor.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

From that height of joy in which man feels himself completely and utterly a deified form and self-justification of nature, down to the joy of healthy peasants and healthy semi-human beasts, the whole of this long and enormous gradation of the light and colour of happiness was called by the Greek—not without that grateful quivering of one who is initiated into secret, not without much caution and pious silence—by the godlike name: Dionysus.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

It was then that Monsieur Copin Albancelli understood that the point to which the conversation was leading up was not, as he had at first supposed, an invitation to take the next step in Freemasonry--the thirtieth degree of Knight Kadosch--but to enter through a side-door into an association concealed within Freemasonry and for which the visible organization of the latter served merely as a cover.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

The perfect subjunctive sometimes refers to past action now completed: as, utinam abierit malam crucem , Pl. Poen.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

This condition, therefore, should in all cases accompany universal suffrage; and it would, after a few years, exclude none but those who cared so little for the privilege, that their vote, if given, would not in general be an indication of any real political opinion.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

And let him never take any penalty for the breach of them to which a judge would not give way in a private man, but would look on him as a crafty and unjust person for pretending to it.
— from Utopia by More, Thomas, Saint

Progression in octaves of divided strings of the same kind is generally to be avoided: Violas I Violas II, 'Cellos I 'Cellos II, D. basses I D. basses II ] 8, for, in such cases the parts are played on strings which do not correspond, and unity of tone is impaired.
— from Principles of Orchestration, with Musical Examples Drawn from His Own Works by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov

It surprised him however to find that at the end of his course of intricate piety and selfrestraint he was so easily at the mercy of childish and unworthy imperfections.
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

Before a new term becomes accepted as the "correct" one, there is a period of instability where a number of competing candidates are used.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

So far, the remark made a little ago is justified, that the Christian life of Paul was a life that had begun to point practically towards sinlessness, towards what we call an unfallen state; however far off it might be, as yet, from that attainment.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Philippians by Robert Rainy

is an orderly and definite arrangement, from the purely biological point of view on the other hand no law or order is recognisable; and so McCoy described the genus as being characterised by the possession of septa “destitute of any order of arrangement, but irregularly branching and coalescing in their passage from the solid external walls towards some indefinite point near the centre where the few main lamellae irregularly anastomose.” {390} In the two examples figured (Fig. 174 ), both comparatively simple ones, it will be seen that, of the main chambers, one is in each case an unsymmetrical one; that is to say, there is one chamber which is in contact with a greater number of its neighbours than any other, and which at an earlier stage must have had contact with them all; this was the case of our type f , in the eight-celled system (Fig. 158 ).
— from On Growth and Form by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

"He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our Constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws, giving his assent to their pretended acts of legislation.
— from The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 1 of 2. From 1620-1816 by Egerton Ryerson

Yet there was no faltering among those veterans, and when, toward evening, the Third and Twelfth corps arrived upon the field, their confidence and hope rose, and all now believed that our army was yet destined to achieve a grand victory.
— from Three Years in the Sixth Corps A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865 by George T. (George Thomas) Stevens

Who would decant the wine of his poetry from its quaint and antique-looking lagena ?—Read his poem to the Aeolian harp ("The Harp") and his model betrays itself:— "These syllables that Nature spoke, And the thoughts that in him woke Can adequately utter none Save to his ear the wind-harp lone.
— from Ralph Waldo Emerson by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Lotea, in Spain, destroyed by the bursting of a reservoir, which inundated more than twenty leagues of the surrounding country, and "upwards of 1,000 persons perished, exclusive of cattle, &c. " 1810.
— from The Every Day Book of History and Chronology Embracing the Anniversaries of Memorable Persons and Events in Every Period and State of the World, from the Creation to the Present Time by Joel Munsell

Some present were in favour of invading the Philippines in great force because of the cruel and unwarranted general massacre of the Chinese in cold blood; but Riccio took pains to show how powerful Spain was, and how justified was the action of the Spaniards, as a measure of precaution, in view of the threatened invasion of Koxinga.
— from The Philippine Islands A Political, Geographical, Ethnographical, Social and Commercial History of the Philippine Archipelago, Embracing the Whole Period of Spanish Rule by Foreman, John, F.R.G.S.

And there was his class master at Clifton College also up to his middle.
— from Twenty-Six Years Reminiscences of Scotch Grouse Moors by William Alexander Adams

“Nothing at all, but everything from Fort Moultrie, at the end of Sullivan Island; but they will only get a chance at us for half a minute, and then they must choose their time well, and shoot straight if they want to reach us.
— from The Blockade Runners by Jules Verne

At the time of John Brown’s execution she wanted to have the bells tolled in Concord, and urged her husband energetically to see that it was done.
— from The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Frank Preston Stearns