And therefore unlesse there be an Interpreter authorised by the Soveraign, from which the subordinate Judges are not to recede, the Interpreter can be no other than the ordinary Judges, in the some manner, as they are in cases of the unwritten Law; and their Sentences are to be taken by them that plead, for Lawes in that particular case; but not to bind other Judges, in like cases to give like judgements.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

It is proper, when you have already made your call of the usual length, and another caller is announced, to rise and leave, not immediately, as if you shunned the new arrival, but after a moment or two.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

Then she drew back her lips, especially the corners of the upper lip, and showed her teeth, at the same time aiming a vicious blow at him.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

The train reached Ogden at two o'clock, where it rested for six hours, Mr. Fogg and his party had time to pay a visit to Salt Lake City, connected with Ogden by a branch road; and they spent two hours in this strikingly American town, built on the pattern of other cities of the Union, like a checker-board, "with the sombre sadness of right-angles," as Victor Hugo expresses it.
— from Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

The walls of these cells, though very thin, are mucilaginous, and capable of taking up large amounts of water.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

[97] Take first the case of trespass upon land attended by actual damage.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

All were conscious of this unseen line, and the question whether they would cross it or not, and how they would cross it, agitated them all.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Its news dispatches, gathered from every corner of the universe, likewise are published in newspapers throughout the civilized world.
— from What's in the New York Evening Journal America's Greatest Evening Newspaper by New York evening journal

Lionel had no liking for the work of driving off the cattle of the unfortunate landowners and peasants, however necessary it might be to keep the army supplied with food, and was glad of the excuse that his wounded horse afforded him for remaining quietly in the town when his comrades rode out with the troop of cavalry stationed there.
— from By England's Aid; Or, the Freeing of the Netherlands, 1585-1604 by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Their yacht was a little floating palace of delight, Billy declared, not to mention the charm of the unknown lands and waters that she and Aunt Hannah would see.
— from Miss Billy by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

They spent two hours in this strikingly American town, built on the pattern of other cities of the Union, like a checker-board, "with the sombre sadness of right-angles," as Victor Hugo expresses it.
— from Around the World in Eighty Days. Junior Deluxe Edition by Jules Verne

but that we may always distinguish between the abstract character of the unassisted landscape, and the charm which it derives from the architecture.
— from Modern Painters, Volume 4 (of 5) by John Ruskin

There, with a light and easy motion, The fan-coral sweeps through the clear, deep sea, And the yellow and scarlet tufts of ocean Are bending like corn on the upland lea, And life, in rare and beautiful forms, Is sporting amid those bowers of stone.
— from Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers by Benj. N. (Benjamin Nicholas) Martin

For example, he assigns Petrus Bertius's catalogue of the university library at Leyden to 1591 instead of 1595 (this error is probably a slip of the pen) and mentions the famous ghosts announced by Jodocus a Dudinck.
— from A History of Bibliographies of Bibliographies by Archer Taylor

But on that same day, the day before I was admitted, the administration, without a word to the Emperor or Government of Korea or to the Korean Legation, and knowing well the contents of the undelivered letter, accepted Japan's unsupported statement that it was all satisfactory to the Korean Government and people, cabled our legation to remove from Korea, cut off all communication with the Korean Government, and then admitted me with the letter."
— from Korea's Fight for Freedom by Fred A. (Fred Arthur) McKenzie