The Internet really took off in the US because of a revolutionary concept: only one language — English.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

He who hath grown wise concerning old origins, lo, he will at last seek after the fountains of the future and new origins.
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

I had thought the circumstances of our last meeting would have left such an impression on his mind as to render him cold and distant ever after: instead of that, he appeared not only to have forgotten all former offences, but to be impenetrable to all present incivilities.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

Thence with my wife to buy some linnen, L13 worth, for sheets, &c., at the new shop over against the New Exchange; [and the master, who is] come out of London—[To the Strand.]—since the fire, says his and other tradesmen’s retail trade is so great here, and better than it was in London, that they believe they shall not return, nor the city be ever so great for retail as heretofore.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

There was something exceedingly pleasing in our leading a College life, without restraint, and with superiour elegance, in consequence of our living in the Master's house, and having the company of ladies.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

That which does not constitute a condition of our life, is merely harmful to it: to possess a virtue merely because one happens to respect the concept "virtue," as Kant would have us do, is pernicious.
— from The Twilight of the Idols; or, How to Philosophize with the Hammer. The Antichrist Complete Works, Volume Sixteen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

For this reason it is that I complain of our laws, not that they keep us too long to our work, but that they set us to work too late.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

“‘I thank thee, King, for thy goodwill, and thy pledge of love I take, Depart with my troth to thy people: but ere full ten days are o’er I shall come to the Sons of the Niblungs, and then shall we part no more Till the day of the change of our life-days, when Odin and Freya shall call.’”
— from Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

And one part of the crown of our Lord, wherewith he was crowned, and one of the nails, and the spear head, and many other relics be in France, in the king’s chapel.
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

The densest crowding of Old London, I pointed out before, never got beyond a hundred and seventy-five thousand.
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

Instead of listening to the bombardment I find myself listening crossly to the creaking of our lift, which makes noises exactly like those of the shrapnel outside.
— from A Woman's Experiences in the Great War by Louise Mack

Pope, Major-General John, in command of Army of Virginia, 153 ; displays bold front as a diversion, 154 ; injudicious orders of, 154 ; “General Orders No. 11,” 155 ; his attitude towards non-combatants contrasted with Scott’s in Mexico, 155 , 156 ; engages with Jackson at Slaughter Mountain, 157 ; increases strength of his army, 159 ; captures one of Lee’s orders and officers, 160 ; puts army in retreat across the Rappahannock, 160 ; head-quarters of, raided by Stuart, 165 ; forms plan to attack Lee, 166 ; concentrates Army of Virginia at Warrenton, 168 ; orders for advance and concentration at Manassas, 171 ; reaches Manassas Junction, 172 ; orders to Porter, 178 , 179 ; orders for attack at Manassas, 180 ; orders Porter to attack Longstreet’s right, 184 ; his report upon, 185 ; mistakenly supposes Confederates retreating, 185 , 186 ; letter to, from General Lee, on death of Kearny, 194 ; criticism of, in Manassas campaign, 197 .
— from From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America by James Longstreet

On the other hand, there is the class of official like the Vali , promoted to Angora Vilayet , when his predecessor refused to countenance a wholesale massacre of Armenians in 1916.
— from The Secrets of a Kuttite An Authentic Story of Kut, Adventures in Captivity and Stamboul Intrigue by Edward O. (Edward Opotiki) Mousley

In 1544, the Chapel of Our Lady of Lauret, together with a part of Musselburgh, was "brennt and desolated" by the English army under the Earl of Hertford.
— from In Byways of Scottish History by Louis A. Barbé

The indulgent extravagance of her mother had bound all the books that Alice loved in the same tone of stony-blue vellum, the countless cushions with which the aching back was so skillfully packed were of the same dull tone, and it pleased the persons who loved her to amuse the prisoner sometimes with a ring in which her favourite note was repeated, or a chain of old lapis-lazuli that made Alice's appreciative blue eyes more blue.
— from The Beloved Woman by Kathleen Thompson Norris

The village consisted chiefly of one long street, and as John looked up and down it, he did not see a single human being.
— from The Hosts of the Air by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

Stubby shrubs as tall as Alan's shoulder covered the mesa sparingly, and in wide spaces there were beds of yellow-flowered [Pg 77] prickly-pear; singly and far stood up tall stems of white-belled yucca, called in that country Candles of Our Lord.
— from The Basket Woman: A Book of Indian Tales for Children by Mary Hunter Austin

And although it was before the days of swimming-pools and gymnasiums and a la carte cafes on ocean liners, the Atlantic was imposing enough.
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

With the Bellovaci More serious resistance was offered by the Bellovaci, who in the previous year had kept aloof from the relief of Alesia; they seem to have wished to show that their absence on that decisive day at least did not proceed from want of courage or of love for freedom.
— from The History of Rome, Book V The Establishment of the Military Monarchy by Theodor Mommsen