But, perhaps, if there was less Law, there might be more Justice, than in some other Courts; for, if the civil Law be a Law of universal Reason, judging of the Rectitude, or Obliquity of Mens Actions, every Man of common Sense is endued with a Portion of it, at least sufficient to make him distinguish Right from Wrong, or what the Civilians call, Malum in se.
— 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

Let those which are near be the first to arrive, And those which are far off be sent for, Let those which have eggs, leave their eggs, And those which have young, desert their young, Let those which are blind, come led by others, And those which have broken limbs, come on crutches.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

Then they took them, and had them to Mount Charity, where they showed them a man that had a bundle of cloth lying before him, out of which he cut coats and garments for the poor that stood about him; yet his bundle or roll of cloth was never the less.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can Read by John Bunyan

In exactly the same way, external (legal) equality in a state is that relation of the subjects in consequence of which no individual can legally bind or oblige another to anything, without at the same time submitting himself to the law which ensures that he can, in his turn, be bound and obliged in like manner by this other.
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

He found that he could look back upon the brass and bombast of his earlier gospels and see them truly.
— from The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane

SYN: Trophy, prize, crown, laurels, bays.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

They are certain living beings; and we call them Affairs, by way of compromise with some naturalists, to whom the respective claims of man and the ape to their relationship may appear as yet undecided.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 7, 1841 by Various

Behold the substance from which all things draw their energy, the bright Spirit of the Globe, without which it cannot live, but must grow cold and dead as the dead moon.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

John Bull, after all his losses and crosses, can live better without them than they can without him.
— from The History of John Bull by John Arbuthnot

Castle Lyndon became the headquarters of scores of needy gentlemen, and I never rode a-hunting
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

A tin box of cigarettes lay beside the lamp.
— from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs

And, when I saw this, I stole out softly and closed the hidden door, and drew the worn tapestries in front of it again, and crept back along the dim corridor, looking behind me, fearfully.
— from Novel Notes by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

He did so; the father received his intelligence with no less joy than surprize, and was very glad he had now no care left but for his beauty, which he thought he would carry to market at his leisure.
— from The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant Being a collection of select pieces from our best modern writers, calculated to eradicate vulgar prejudices and rusticity of manners, improve the understanding, rectify the will, purify the passions, direct the minds of youth to the pursuit of proper objects, and to facilitate their reading, writing, and speaking the English language with elegance and propriety by John Hamilton Moore

The soldiers plunged into the water without delay, being watched by hundreds of their comrades left behind.
— from The Campaign of the Jungle; Or, Under Lawton through Luzon by Edward Stratemeyer

Finally to commend further vnto thee good reader the cause in part before intreated, it shalbe the lesse needefull, hauing so nye folowing that learned preface, which sometime was set out by the diligence of that godly father Thomas Cranmer, late byshop in the sea of Canterburie, which he caused to be prefixed before the translation of that Byble that was then set out.
— from Lectures on Bible Revision by Samuel Newth

Oh, pots and skillets!" Pedro exhibited some symptoms of a coming laugh, but the attack did not develop, and he went on: "A marvel, in truth!
— from The Crimson Conquest: A Romance of Pizarro and Peru by Charles B. (Charles Bradford) Hudson

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— from Practical Pointers for Patentees by Franklin Allison Cresee

One wave more, and still one more, came; and then all was water, as far as they could look, below; the village where they had been was under the sea.
— from How to Tell Stories to Children, and Some Stories to Tell by Sara Cone Bryant