Some, with sorrowful hearts, fled beyond the seas; others, continuing in their own country, led a miserable life among the woods, rocks, and mountains, with scarcely enough food to support life, and expecting every moment to be their last.”
— from English Villages by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

In this respect the legend of Salmoneus probably reflects the pretensions of a whole class of petty sovereigns who reigned of old, each over his little canton, in the oak-clad highlands of Greece.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

He had shown no want of courage in this or any other occasion where he had been called upon to act against the French; but this was his first wound, and the young gentleman was exceedingly frightened by it.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

The secretary lay back in the cushions of the luxurious limousine, with his thoughts so full of the impending European tragedy that he hardly observed that as his car swung round the village street it nearly passed over a little Ford coming in the opposite direction.
— from His Last Bow: An Epilogue of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

And each class is thought of, not as trying to express an ideal, but as struggling to acquire power or maintain its position.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

"O King, my friend, if friend of thine I be, Happier are those that welter in their sin, Swine in the mud, that cannot see for slime, Slime of the ditch: but in me lived a sin So strange, of such a kind, that all of pure, Noble, and knightly in me twined and clung Round that one sin, until the wholesome flower And poisonous grew together, each as each, Not to be plucked asunder; and when thy knights Sware, I sware with them only in the hope That could I touch or see the Holy Grail They might be plucked asunder.
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

The physical implements of propaganda were at hand in 1941-1942, but we Americans had become so accustomed to their use for trivial purposes that much of our wartime propaganda was conducted in terms of salesmanship.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

But for a man to come in the ordinary course of things to be a good soldier costs him all the student suffers, and in an incomparably higher degree, for at every step he runs the risk of losing his life.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

As his courage appeared to be fast failing him, and he trifled with the stopper in a manner which threatened the dismissal of the bottle to its old place, Newman took up one of the little glasses, and clinked it, twice or thrice, against the bottle, as a gentle reminder that he had not been helped yet.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Widely-ranging species, abounding in individuals, which have already triumphed over many competitors in their own widely-extended homes, will have the best chance of seizing on new places, when they spread out into new countries.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

Therewith began a self-searching which did not cease until it had prostrated her in sorrow and shame before him whose charity is the only pledge of ours.
— from Weighed and Wanting by George MacDonald

This tells us that there are SOME Cakes in the oblong consisting of No. 11 and No. 12: so we place our red counter, as in the previous example, on the division-line between No. 11 and No. 12, and the result is ------------------- | 0 | 0
— from The Game of Logic by Lewis Carroll

The main-boom of the schooner was either cut in two, or so much injured as to oblige them to lower her mainsail.
— from Newton Forster by Frederick Marryat

In the one case, it is a card; in the other it is an individual.
— from The Law of Psychic Phenomena A working hypothesis for the systematic study of hypnotism, spiritism, mental therapeutics, etc. by Thomson Jay Hudson

you confess it, then, you villain?' 'Yes, sir; but here is the money; I thought I could replace it before you came into the office this morning;
— from The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 3 of 6 by Eugène Sue

He resolved to miss no chance to prove his theory, by learning all he could about newly-found lands; and he even began planning to sail around the earth to India and Far Cathay, as China was called in the old days.
— from Hero Tales from History by Smith Burnham

To be the owner of an estate should be to act as the people's friend, their father, their adviser in times of plenty and their comrade in times of sorrow.
— from Peg O' My Heart by J. Hartley Manners

The men who are really on the inside have matters so completely in their own hands that they are practically omnipotent.”
— from The Moneychangers by Upton Sinclair

The water is broughte from thence in two pypes or Canalls in greate quantitie, and when the one is foule, then all the water is conuayed into the other, til the first be made cleane.
— from The pleasant historie of the conquest of the VVeast India, now called new Spayne atchieued by the vvorthy Prince Hernando Cortes, marques of the Valley of Huaxacac, most delectable to reade by Francisco López de Gómara

With these facts in mind, Field Marshal Foch ordered the advance all along the front that was to prove the end of Germany as a military power; that was to result in the abdication of the German emperor and the crown prince; and that was to mean revolution throughout the German empire until such time as a stable government could raise its head and the common people could come into their own.
— from The Boy Allies with Marshal Foch; or, The Closing Days of the Great World War by Clair W. (Clair Wallace) Hayes