The militia was at once called out, both in eastern Tennessee and on the Cumberland.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Full of hope, I therefore looked forward to a performance of the same work at the Gewandhaus concert, which followed soon after, and which came off brilliantly in every way.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

Such an essentially honest-hearted and generous people cannot cite the caste-levelling precepts of Christianity, or believe in equality of opportunity for all men, without coming to feel more and more with each generation that the present drawing of the color-line is a flat contradiction to their beliefs and professions.
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

Take as an instance the Lombards and other Italian merchants, who in the early Middle Ages carried on business in England, France, and elsewhere.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

A river in Picenum ran the color of blood, in Etruria a good part of the heavens seemed to be on fire, at Ariminum a light like daylight blazed out at night, in many portions of Italy the shapes of three moons became visible in the night time, and in the Forum a vulture roosted for several days.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

It seldom comes to this pass, however, though lies are of common occurrence; but in England, more than elsewhere, it is a superstition which has taken very deep root.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: the Wisdom of Life by Arthur Schopenhauer

In ordinary and quiet times, he can find no difficulty in getting one to buy at the market price, which generally corresponds with the price at which he can sell the coin or bullion it entitles him to take out of the bank.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

In quiet and untroubled times it seems to every administrator that it is only by his efforts that the whole population under his rule is kept going, and in this consciousness of being indispensable every administrator finds the chief reward of his labor and efforts.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

The public has therefore among a democratic people a singular power, of which aristocratic nations could never so much as conceive an idea; for it does not persuade to certain opinions, but it enforces them, and infuses them into the faculties by a sort of enormous pressure of the minds of all upon the reason of each.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

The combats with wild beasts certainly lasted till the fall of the Western empire; but the gladiatorial combats ceased either by common consent, or by Imperial edict.—M.] Note 59 ( return ) [ Crudele gladiatorum spectaculum et inhumanum nonnullis videri solet, et haud scio an ita sit, ut nunc fit.
— 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

From the centre of black immensity effulgence burst forth.
— from The American Union Speaker by John D. (John Dudley) Philbrick

Settling in a peasant colony of a thousand so-called converts, only half-Christianized, the story of his labors and triumphs reads like that of Columba, or Boniface in early Europe.
— from Lighted to Lighten: the Hope of India A Study of Conditions among Women in India by Alice B. (Alice Boucher) Van Doren

Lastly, a common carrier carrying a revolver in the ordinary course of business is exempt.
— from The Modern Pistol and How to Shoot It by Walter Winans

Hence, I deny that Adam was “created or brought into existence righteous.”
— from An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will by Albert Taylor Bledsoe

Perhaps the most singular impression made by “Satan’s Invisible World Discovered” is that in Sinclair’s day, people who did not believe in bogies believed in nothing, while people who shared the common creed of Christendom were capable of believing in everything.
— from Adventures Among Books by Andrew Lang

And all this was a flare of the old hereditary pride, springing from that soil whose sap can only blossom in extravagant projects; the determination to dazzle and conquer the world which comes as soon as one has climbed to the Capitol, even though one’s feet rest amidst the accumulated dust of all the forms of human power which have there crumbled one above the other.
— from The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Complete by Émile Zola

Already on the way to Kalkbrenner (who plays a note of his now?), I came to the boulevards, and read on the theatre bills of the day, which had much attraction for me, the announcement of an extra concert to be given by Liszt at the Conservatoire (it was in November), with the piano concerto of Beethoven, in E flat, at the head.
— from Franz Liszt by James Huneker

This lack of confidence grows to some extent out of the palpable and apparent embarrassment attending the efforts of the Government under existing laws to procure gold and to a greater extent out of the impossibility of either keeping it in the Treasury or canceling obligations by its expenditure after it is obtained.
— from A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 8, part 2: Grover Cleveland by Grover Cleveland

There was a charge of buckshot in each barrel, and Mr. Jenkins entertained hopes of what might be accomplished therewith.
— from The Sunset Trail by Alfred Henry Lewis