The agricultural and commercial classes required only protection and stimulus, and we could repay the benefits their industry conferred by the lowest scale of taxation, which, though in fact equally beneficial to the government, was constructed as a boon.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

To lay down extensive, but distinct and settled limits, to the action of the government; to confer certain rights on private persons, and to secure to them the undisputed enjoyment of those rights; to enable individual man to maintain whatever independence, strength, and original power he still possesses; to raise him by the side of society at large, and uphold him in that position—these appear to me the main objects of legislators in the ages upon which we are now entering.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

While our regiment was lying in York, the country, especially the manufacturing districts, was much disturbed by what were called “Chartist riots,” or “plug drawing,” the latter term being derived from the rioters drawing the street plugs, so as to allow the water that supplied the mill with steam and power to escape and run to waste.
— from The Young Dragoon: Every Day Life of a Soldier by Alfred W. (Alfred Wilks) Drayson

There he commenced 'Count Robert of Paris,' the penultimate of his published tales.
— from Abbotsford by W. S. (William Shillinglaw) Crockett

RESULT OF THE ELECTORAL COUNT CHRONOLOGIC REVIEW OF PEACE PROPOSALS
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete by Abraham Lincoln

At the end of the piazza, where the children had been playing, was a mass of chairs and tables, while from the midst of the confusion came roars of pain, anger, and fright.
— from Harper's Round Table, June 25, 1895 by Various

In the host of Crusaders from France, Germany, Italy, Spain, England, and even far-off Ireland, were many renowned princes, prelates, and nobles: Adhemar, Bishop of Puy, the Pope's legate; Robert, Duke of Normandy, the heroic and reckless son of William the Conqueror; Count Robert of Paris, wild and ferocious; the gallant Count of Flanders; Stephen of Blois, Count of Chartres; and the pure and perfect knight, Tancred.
— from With Spurs of Gold: Heroes of Chivalry and their Deeds by Dolly Williams Kirk

For Either, one of the parties to the concealed compact receives or pays attention which perturb the other; or, a subsequent and acknowledged lover looks askance at the previous entanglement.
— from Hints for Lovers by Arnold Haultain

'Very possibly, but it is awkward when so many calumnies cluster round one person.
— from Uncle Bernac: A Memory of the Empire by Arthur Conan Doyle

235 Pacensis, however, was made a prisoner by his mutinous troops: Novellus had no authority: Clemens' command rested on popularity, and he was as greedy of battle as he was criminally blind to insubordination.
— from Tacitus: The Histories, Volumes I and II by Cornelius Tacitus

a difficulty, therefore, in conceiving that the most certain of all conclusions could rest on premises which, instead of being certainly true, are certainly not true to the full extent asserted.
— from A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive by John Stuart Mill