If, as indicated above, the terrain of Psychological Warfare consists of the private thoughts and feelings of each member of the audience reached; if the mission of Psychological Warfare is the accomplishment of anything from entirely unknowable results (such as an imperceptible change of mood) all the way through to complete success (such as organized mass surrender); if the capabilities of the enemy have virtually nothing to do with one's own Psychological Warfare commitments; and if the decision consists of choices of means and theme—if these peculiarities all apply, the usual "estimate of the situation" has almost nothing to do with military propaganda.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

His ambition was now to go to the imperial capital, Ki[=o]to, and there advocate the claims of Christ, of Mary and of the Pope.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

It had ended in her going away weeping to pack up her boxes; for Lady Caroline literally refused to condone the injury done to Margaret by any carelessness of chaperonage on Miss Stone's part.
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

We shall therefore content ourselves with observing, and indeed with repeating, some of the most important circumstances of climate, of manners, and of institutions, which rendered the wild barbarians of Germany such formidable enemies to the Roman power.
— 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

Cows of Colin of my love, Cows of Colin of my heart, In colour of the heather-hen.)
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

They didn't feel that they were doing anything out of the common way, and so were perfectly natural, and had none of that condescension or consciousness of manner which so outrages the independent poor.
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

"An appeal," say the Committee of Correspondence of Maryland, "from the decision of the Grand Master is an anomaly at war with every principle of Freemasonry, and as such, not for a moment to be tolerated or countenanced."
— from The Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Landmarks of Freemasonry by Albert Gallatin Mackey

Hear how Alcuin laments on leaving the cloister for the Court of Charlemagne:— “O my cell!
— from English Villages by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

Nevertheless, in virtue of the extended range of notes in use, the variety of modes, the occasional variations of time consequent on changes of metre, and the multiplication of instruments, music had, towards the close of Greek civilisation, attained to considerable heterogeneity—not indeed as compared with our music, but as compared with that which preceded it.
— from Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library by Herbert Spencer

With very little difficulty, I wonderingly climbed up some fifteen feet, by means of the low branches, which came off clayey on my hands, as though some one had mounted by that same means lately, and then I found that I could look down right through the hollow trunk, which was lighted by a hole here and there.
— from Christmas Penny Readings: Original Sketches for the Season by George Manville Fenn

Ag ó gn o , carke or care of mind.
— from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio

Mix with two cupfuls of mashed potato, two cupfuls of cream or milk, and two well-beaten eggs.
— from The Myrtle Reed Cook Book by Myrtle Reed

The capitals, he continues, of the lower columns are of a complicated order, composed of many pieces.
— from Ruins of Ancient Cities (Vol. 2 of 2) With General and Particular Accounts of Their Rise, Fall, and Present Condition by Charles Bucke

The human egg-cell, as soon as it is fertilized, multiplies by division and forms a community, or colony of many social cells.
— from Mind and Body; or, Mental States and Physical Conditions by William Walker Atkinson

The wives and daughters of the Greek citizens were shut up to contempt and ignorance, while the priestesses of vice— hetæræ they were called, or companions of men—queened it in their voluptuous beauty, until their bloom faded and poison or madness ended their fatal days.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Ephesians by George G. (George Gillanders) Findlay

We must not from thence conclude that the saline particles of each species are indeterminate in their figures: The primative particles of all bodies, especially of salts, are perfectly constant in their specific forms; but the cristals which form in our experiments are composed of congeries of minute particles, which, though perfectly equal in size and shape, may assume very dissimilar arrangements, and consequently produce a vast variety of regular forms, which have not the smallest apparent resemblance to each other, nor to the original cristal.
— from Elements of Chemistry, In a New Systematic Order, Containing all the Modern Discoveries by Antoine Laurent Lavoisier

In case of crime or misdemeanour committed during the course of the Session, they cannot be put under arrest except with the leave of the Chamber.
— from Secret History of the English Occupation of Egypt Being a Personal Narrative of Events by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

From this point, the wondrous city spreads around: the city with its roots in fable, and its branches in the living present; the city of commerce, of manufactures, of finance; the city of incalculable riches, and of that hopeless poverty which accompanies riches as the shadow accompanies the sun; the city which receives into its bosom the vessels and the wealth of all the globe, and which is in constant and electric sympathy with every part of Europe, with the teeming populations of the East, with the desert heart of Africa, with the young Republics of the Western Continent, and with the rising commonwealths of Australasian seas.
— from Rivers of Great Britain. The Thames, from Source to Sea. Descriptive, Historical, Pictorial by Various