What the new Russian duma will get, if it survives, will be what the people it solidly represents are strong enough to make it get, and no more and no less, with bombs and finances, famine and corruption funds alike in the scale.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

bōt f. help, relief, advantage, remedy , An, Da, Lcd ; AO: compensation for an injury or wrong , LL (v. 2·336): ( peace ) offering, recompense, amends, atonement, reformation, penance, repentance , Bl ; CP.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

They come from about Ireland, round to the north.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The reading of my sermon was called for, and it was praised by all.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

"O rare wine-taster!" said he of the Grove; "nowhere else indeed does it come from, and it has some years' age too."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The title was again changed, and they adopted or received the name of Christians—the Essenes going out of history at the very date Christians first appear in history.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

Each of the characters represents a certain force applied in a certain direction, and it is because these forces, constant in direction, necessarily combine together in the same way, that the same situation is reproduced.
— from Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic by Henri Bergson

[74] Suspicion reigned in the cabinet and the city, factions and irresolution among the officers; and a man who was unfortunate or incapable in action knew that the yet more serious charge of treason might follow his misadventure.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

She did not reply, but I could see her eye sparkled, and her cheek flushed as if already in imagination she was revelling untrammelled in all the luxury of voluptuousness such a plan opened out.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

[Ann's brows contract for an instant involuntarily].
— from Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw

Tarik, landing there when he crossed from Africa into Spain, built a castle on the rock, which was therefore called Gebel-al-Tarik (Hill of Tarik), the original form of the name Gibraltar.
— from The Mentor: Spain and Gibraltar, Vol. 1, Num. 31, Serial No. 31, September 15, 1913 by Dwight L. (Dwight Lathrop) Elmendorf

It was plain to see that Miss Spencer had Frankling hooked, haltered, hobbled, staked out, Spanish-bitted, wrapped up and stamped with her name and laid on the shelf to be called for; and it was just as evident that she considered he would be all the nicer if she walked around on him for a while and massaged his disposition a little with her little French heels.
— from At Good Old Siwash by George Fitch

In some ice chests, food and ice are kept in the same box, which usually opens at the top; in other chests there is a separate chamber for the ice.
— from Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts by Girl Scouts of the United States of America

While waiting for our repast, we went to take a siesta: this is a habit which you are compelled to follow in Spain, for the heat from two to five o'clock is such as no Parisian can form an idea of.
— from Wanderings in Spain by Théophile Gautier

This pamphlet circulated freely and increased Dickinson's reputation as that of a man capable of thoroughly discussing public measures; it also brought his name to the attention of the British public for whom the "Letter" was especially written.
— from Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies by John Dickinson

Help may also come from the consumers, for an increasing number of them, with compunctions in regard to tempted young employees, are not only unwilling to purchase from the employer who underpays his girls and thus to share his guilt, but are striving in divers ways to modify existing conditions.
— from A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil by Jane Addams

First, the hidden life, the common life; the silence of the house of Nazareth; [158] the carpenter’s shop: the marriage-feast, it may be, for some; and at last ‘the hour is come,’ and the true work for which they are sent into the world has to be done, in the desert or in the cloister, in the temple or in the market-place, on Mount Tabor or on Mount Calvary; and the martyr or the confessor, the founder or the reformer of a religious order, comes forth, and in an instant, or in a few years, performs a work at which earth wonders and angels rejoice.”
— from More Italian Yesterdays by Fraser, Hugh, Mrs.

It is noteworthy that, according to Herodotus, the messengers of the Hyperboreans who came from abroad, i.e. , barbaroi , were entitled by the Delians, “ Perpherees ” and held in great honour:
— from Archaic England An Essay in Deciphering Prehistory from Megalithic Monuments, Earthworks, Customs, Coins, Place-names, and Faerie Superstitions by Harold Bayley

The Duke had with him on board ship Lord Grey, Mr. Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun, Mr. Heywood Dare of Taunton'—— 'I know the man,' said Sir Christopher, 'for an impudent, loud-tongued fellow.'
— from For Faith and Freedom by Walter Besant