of Aguinaldo’s decree of June 18th, previous, providing an organic law or constitution for his provisional government (see Chapter II., ante ) had provided precisely the organization which Wilcox and Sargent thus saw working at Aparri and throughout the Cagayan valley in October, 1898.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

In witnessing the multitude of vices which the torrent of the Revolution has rolled in turbid communion with its civic virtues, I confess that I have sometimes feared that I should be sullied, in the eyes of posterity, by the impure neighborhood of unprincipled men, who had thrust themselves into association with the sincere friends of humanity; and I rejoice that these conspirators against my country have now, by their reckless rage, traced deep the line of demarcation between themselves and all true men.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

But as the flame had not as yet reached to its inward parts, but was still consuming the rooms that were about the holy house, and Titus supposing what the fact was, that the house itself might yet be saved, he came in haste and endeavored to persuade the soldiers to quench the fire, and gave order to Liberalius the centurion, and one of those spearmen that were about him, to beat the soldiers that were refractory with their staves, and to restrain them; yet were their passions too hard for the regards they had for Caesar, and the dread they had of him who forbade them, as was their hatred of the Jews, and a certain vehement inclination to fight them, too hard for them also.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

"And they," (that is, the Gentiles who had any Jew in bondage) "shall bring all your brethren, for an offering to the Lord, out of all nations, upon horses, and in charets, and in litters, and upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to my holy mountain, Jerusalem, saith the Lord, as the Children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessell into the House of the Lord.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

Inferno: Canto VIII I say, continuing, that long before We to the foot of that high tower had come, Our eyes went upward to the summit of it, By reason of two flamelets we saw placed there, And from afar another answer them, So far, that hardly could the eye attain it.
— from Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Hell by Dante Alighieri

H2 anchor CHAPTER VI I care not, Fortune!
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

Strength is chiefly valued in the male, and comeliness in the female; not upon the account of love, but to preserve the race from degenerating; for where a female happens to excel in strength, a consort is chosen, with regard to comeliness.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

For who would cultivate virtue itself, if you were to take away the reward?
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The great Magellan cloud is mentioned by an old Arab writer as a white blotch at the foot of Canopus, visible in the Tehama along the Red Sea, but not in Nejd or 'Irák.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

In fact, the squadron under Commodore Johnstone [168] had got away first, and had anchored at Porto Praya, in the Cape Verde Islands, a Portuguese colony, on the 11th of April.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

Here we have the explanation of the savage rancor that so amazes people who imagine that the controversy concerning vaccination is a scientific one.
— from The Doctor's Dilemma: Preface on Doctors by Bernard Shaw

Her first point of call was at Porto Praya, a harbor in the Cape Verd Islands.
— from The Naval History of the United States. Volume 1 by Willis J. (Willis John) Abbot

and Holcombe’s Minnesota in Three Centuries , Vol. II, pp.
— from The Spirit Lake Massacre by Thomas Teakle

[Pg 73] CHAPTER V. IN THE CITY.
— from The Princess and Joe Potter by James Otis

At sight of her face Raoul recoils, for this clandestine visitor is none other than the heroine of his romance—the beauty to whom he had lost his heart.
— from Stars of the Opera A Description of Operas & a Series of Personal Interviews with Marcela Sembrich, Emma Eames, Emma Calvé, Lillian Nordica, Lilli Lehmann, Geraldine Farrar & Nellie Melba by Mabel Wagnalls

“He concluded by stating that he has no knowledge of the financial or corporate structures of the S & R Corporation or of the Carousel Club or Club Vegas in Dallas, Tex.”
— from Warren Commission (14 of 26): Hearings Vol. XIV (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

‘With your permission,’ he said in a low calm voice, ‘I will examine the dressing-room and the bath-room.’
— from The Grand Babylon Hôtel by Arnold Bennett