The cries of the distant hunters, borne on the winds, echoed several times against the castle walls; you would have sworn that the cry came from the castle, that under the curtain of fog the walls had been restored and were again inhabited.
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

You know what C. Flaminius, the consul, said when by Hannibal’s policy he was penned up near the lake of Peruse, alias Thrasymene.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Justice is indeed due to the fidelity with which the Turkish conqueror fulfilled the conditions of the treaty; and he may be deservedly praised for the glance of pity which he cast on the misery of the vanquished.
— 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

Whatever powers the Board exercises beyond this limit, were right and necessary in that peculiar case, for the cure of rooted habits of maladministration in matters deeply affecting not the localities merely, but the whole community; since no locality has a moral right to make itself by mismanagement a nest of pauperism, necessarily overflowing into other localities, and impairing the moral and physical condition of the whole labouring community.
— from On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

My exhibition had been witnessed by several hundred lesser Martians, and they immediately broke into demands for a repetition, which the chieftain then ordered me to make; but I was both hungry and thirsty, and determined on the spot that my only method of salvation was to demand the consideration from these creatures which they evidently would not voluntarily accord.
— from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

We have before us a contorniate medallion, of Caracalla, from the collection of Mr. W. S. Bohn, upon which one or other of these instruments figures.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

The oracle may be inferred to give consent from the circumstance of her returning with the words on her honey lips that they can come in if they want to it.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Principal authorities consulted for this chapter:
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

Give Moses a quart glass—this is mutiny, and a high contempt for the chair.
— from The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

At that moment he was certain to receive everything well that came from the City.
— from South London by Walter Besant

She resolved to see Durgo for herself, and when Dora was at school, she watched at the window of the cottage for the coming of the negro.
— from The Solitary Farm by Fergus Hume

On our drive, I remember, the main drift of his conversation was contempt for the company we had just left; and he abused the host for asking the like of him to meet such outsiders; but I did not respond to the flattery implied in such confidences, with which once more he seemed inviting me to intimacy.
— from Isle of Wight by A. R. Hope (Ascott Robert Hope) Moncrieff

Hence, we may be justified in drawing the most favourable conclusions from the comparatively great increase which has already taken place in the commerce of Africa during a very short period, in consequence of a partial removal of those evils, which previously had almost excluded the very possibility of improvement.
— from The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805 Together with Other Documents, Official and Private, Relating to the Same Mission, to Which Is Prefixed an Account of the Life of Mr. Park by Mungo Park

In our journeying to and fro, we found some honest-hearted Friends, who appeared to be concerned for the Cause of Truth among a backsliding People.
— from The Journal, with Other Writings of John Woolman by John Woolman

It seems to have been the notion of the professor that he might lead the electrical current from the clouds down into his ‘gnomon’ bottle, there to measure its strength; though it is difficult to conceive how a man acquainted with the manifestations of the mystic force with which he was experimenting, and knowing its powerful effects, should not have perceived the extreme danger of thus leading it into a nonconducting element.
— from Lightning Conductors: Their History, Nature, and Mode of Application by Anderson, Richard, F.C.S.

It is not unlikely that he left Cambridge for the city when his father attained the metropolitan see.
— from Francis Beaumont: Dramatist A Portrait, with Some Account of His Circle, Elizabethan and Jacobean, And of His Association with John Fletcher by Charles Mills Gayley

They originally came from the Cape Colony; the men were perfectly naked, and the women also, with the exception of a piece of skin round the loins, which was of very little service as a covering; the Korannas and Bushmen the same.
— from Twenty-Five Years in a Waggon in South Africa: Sport and Travel in South Africa by Andrew A. Anderson

At length he took the collar from the creature’s neck, and put it upon the other, which, with some difficulty, he placed in the shafts.
— from The Bible in Spain, Vol. 1 [of 2] Or, the Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonments of an Englishman in an Attempt to Circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula by George Borrow

“Mark Anthony’s Oration Over Cæsar,” from “The Comic Shakespeare,” will dispel the gloom and indicate the rare brand of Criswell’s vintage: “Friends, Romans, countrymen!
— from Sketches in Crude-oil Some accidents and incidents of the petroleum development in all parts of the globe by John J. (John James) McLaurin