Fabius and Æbutius, the consuls, inasmuch as they perceived that they succeeded to a greater glory of achievements performed at home and abroad, [Pg 263] (the year was rendered particularly remarkable among the neighbouring states, both friendly and hostile, because relief had been afforded to the Ardeans in their perilous situation with so much zeal,) the more strenuously exerted themselves in obtaining a decree of the senate, that they might completely efface the infamy of the decision from the memory of men, to the effect that since the state of the Ardeans had been reduced to a few by intestine war, a colony should be sent thither as a protection against the Volscians.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

31 The resistance was pretty real to Colonel Edwards then, i.e. , the Benevolent Assimilation was quite strenuous, and it continued to be so until his great commander was shot through the breast in the forefront of battle in the hour of victory in December thereafter, and the colonel came home with the general’s body.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

I have quoted this last phrase, not because it clearly exhibits the notion of Rational Freedom,—on the contrary, it rather shows how easily this notion may be confounded with the other.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

Nor yet did the dictatorship render that combination of the senators more effectual at the consular elections, than it had proved at that of the censors.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

Yet when her son came 243 VI. 620-652 to her, and saluted his mother and drew her neck towards him with his little arms, and added kisses mingled with childish endearments, the mother, in truth, was moved, and her anger abated, and her eyes, in spite of her, became wet with tears thus forced from her .
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

Basilidianorum commentis prorsus congruus est, tamen potuit ab ethnicis Milesiis scriptus esse; quare nolui eum inter Christianos rejicere, quum præsertim publicæ Milesiorum superstitionis documentum insigne sit.’
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

“He's over to Dr. Duchesne's,” said Clytie eagerly; “that is,” she stammered, a rich color suddenly flushing from her temples to her round shoulders, “he's usually there in the evenings, I mean.”
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

To this question we have given a sufficient answer; for we have shown that, as the former stands in a relation to a different kind of condition from those of the latter, the law of the one does not affect the law of the other and that, consequently, both can exist together in independence of and without interference with each other.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

I can exhibit to you from my portfolio a picture of that creature taken from life which would convince you——' "DR.
— from The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

They replied still, with the same Answers, and could extenuate their Crimes, with no other Plea, than being forced Men.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

Mr. Jenckes was desirous of having a more just and comprehensive enactment than the one proposed: "In my judgment," said he, "justice requires that the qualification of electors for members of this House and for electors of President and Vice-President of the United States—in other words, for the two popular branches of this great Government—should be defined in the fundamental law.
— from History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States by William Horatio Barnes

“We all think Jakhals was a cruel horrid creature, eating the poor little Doves and cracking the good Heron’s neck.”
— from Outa Karel's Stories: South African Folk-Lore Tales by Sanni Metelerkamp

"It's the swellest thing in the bonfire line I've ever attended," Sandy assured Mrs. Clyde; and she could excuse the phrase because of the undoubted enthusiasm of the speaker.
— from Blue Bonnet's Ranch Party by Caroline Elliott Hoogs Jacobs

It seems to me, while writing this upon cold mute paper, that the clock has gone backwards and it is once more the time when the conversation ended, too soon for my liking, and we reached the house in the Rue de la Barouillére.
— from The Blue Duchess by Paul Bourget

[Pg 12 ] Now and then he returns a story to the city editor to be lengthened or to be pruned down.
— from News Writing The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories by M. Lyle (Matthew Lyle) Spencer

But long before this time a great domestic revolution had changed every thing at the court of England.
— from Cabinet Portrait Gallery of British Worthies. Volume I by Anonymous

He promised to look in on him before he left the city and tell him how he had gotten on; then he took his list and went back to the hotel prepared to spend some anxious hours in the time which must intervene before he could expect to hear from his night telegram.
— from The Man from the Bitter Roots by Caroline Lockhart

We shall see at Canterbury, more clearly even than elsewhere, that in the manufacture of this early mosaic glass the English glaziers followed the French models.
— from Stained Glass Tours in England by Charles Hitchcock Sherrill

But if such kind of Satyr has its incontestable Greatness; if its exemplary Brightness may not mislead inferior Wits into a barbarous Imitation of its Severity, then I have only admir'd the Verses, and expos'd myself by bringing them under so scrupulous a Reflexion: But the Pain which the Acrimony of those Verses gave me is, in some measure, 39 allay'd in finding that this inimitable Writer, as he advances in Years, has since had Candour enough to celebrate the same Person for his visible Merit.
— from An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume 1 (of 2) Written by Himself. A New Edition with Notes and Supplement by Colley Cibber