The Rana, satisfied that his line was not extinct, now prepared to follow his brave sons; and calling around him his devoted clans, for whom life had no longer any charms, they threw open the portals and descended to the plains, and with a reckless despair carried death, or met it, in the crowded ranks of Ala.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

Civilisation depends on morality.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

He judged that there was not in the whole world a trade which could disgust one more.
— from Candide by Voltaire

Don Francisco de Moncada Conde de Ossona, may imitate Cæsar or Sallust; he may transcribe the Greek or Italian contemporaries: but he never quotes his authorities, and I cannot discern any national records of the exploits of his countrymen.
— 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

In analysing the concrete details of magical performances, therefore, we have to distinguish the formula, the rite , and the condition of the performer .
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

II—The sagali (ceremonial distribution) on Muwa. III—The magic of sailing 207 IX Sailing on the Sea-arm of Pilolu I—The landscape.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

I must now point out—if it has not long been apparent to the reader—that the self-evident principles laid down in § 3 do not specially belong to Intuitionism in the restricted sense which, for clear distinction of methods, I gave to this term at the outset of our investigation.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

The entrance of supper somewhat interrupted the complacent discourse of Madame Cheron and the painful considerations, which it had forced upon Emily.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

" These words, however, had not the inhospitable bluntness with which they may strike the reader; for the two relatives, in a talk before bedtime, had arrived at a certain degree of mutual understanding.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Why, then," asked the Colonel, "did our men include it with no hope of winning?"
— from At Start and Finish by William Lindsey

This point decided without further discussion, we could devote our meditations to the circus itself.
— from The Believing Years by Edmund Lester Pearson

The eternal creative mystery could dispose of man, and replace him with a finer created being.
— from Women in Love by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

“I had practically guaranteed to our excellent, our charming friend, your favourable view of his appeal—which you yourself too, remember, had left him in so little doubt of!—so that, having by your performance so egregiously failed him, I have the pleasure of their coming down on me for explanations, for compensations, and for God knows what besides.”
— from The Outcry by Henry James

After this Doughty walked to the place of execution, where, like King Charles I, He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable scene.
— from Elizabethan Sea-Dogs: A Chronicle of Drake and His Companions by William Charles Henry Wood

But he is constantly domineering over me, as if he meant I should realize all the while that he is my legal master."
— from From Boyhood to Manhood: Life of Benjamin Franklin by William Makepeace Thayer

“This is distinctly a case in which the convenient doctrine of ‘military necessity’ is not to be invoked.
— from Horrors and Atrocities of the Great War Including the Tragic Destruction of the Lusitania by Logan Marshall

The vice-admiral fell by his own hand; and the command devolved on Monsieur le Jonguiere, governor of Canada, who had been declared chef d'escadre after the fleet sailed.
— from The Life of George Washington: A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Editions by John Marshall

An honest respectable labourer without ambition, yet with a conscious dignity of mind not uncommon among the Spanish peasantry, may, in this respect, well be an object of envy to many of his betters.
— from Letters from Spain by Joseph Blanco White