But the usual way of computing how old they are, is by asking them what kings or great persons they can remember, and then consulting history; for infallibly the last prince in their mind did not begin his reign after they were fourscore years old.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

My vapors were absolutely gone, but every other complaint remained, and though custom had rendered them less troublesome, they were still sufficient to make any one who had been suddenly seized with them, suppose himself attacked by some mortal disease.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The constitutional reformers and the Councils have the great task before them of reconciling the Hindus and Mahomedans on a basis for their unity other than the one which arose out of the Mahomedan fury against the British Government for its failure to support Mahomedan interests in the West.
— from Gandhi and Anarchy by Sankaran Nair, C. (Chettur), Sir

But for the aristocracy revolution had no terrors, for they believed that they could crush revolution as their class had done for a thousand years.
— from The Theory of Social Revolutions by Brooks Adams

The council, however, voted unanimously to "stay and fight it out," and the next morning (July 3rd) saw the two armies facing each other in much the same positions as they had occupied the day before, the Unionists crowding the heights of Cemetery Ridge and the Confederates holding the hills known as Seminary Ridge and clinging to the bases of Round Top and Little Round Top, to which point the tide of valor had carried them.
— from On the Trail of Grant and Lee by Frederick Trevor Hill

Donal came round a turn, carrying his implements.
— from Donal Grant by George MacDonald

Philip made Paris his chief residence, and that city henceforth became the capital of France.
— from Early European History by Hutton Webster

But the contemporary records of that astonishing career remain, and they confirm his story.
— from From the Easy Chair, Volume 1 by George William Curtis

She belonged to one of the Protestant churches of Christianity, attended church regularly, and the church had given her fine ideals and moral precepts; but religion itself was not a reality to her.
— from The Snowshoe Trail by Edison Marshall