Something it is even,—nay, something considerable, when the chains have grown corrosive, poisonous, to be free 'from oppression by our fellow-man.'
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

23 After Gallus had been permitted to repose himself a few days at Hadrianople, he received a mandate, expressed in the most haughty and absolute style, that his splendid retinue should halt in that city, while the Caesar himself, with only ten post-carriages, should hasten to the Imperial residence at Milan.
— 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

They fought for their spiritual country, which the Church had, somehow or other, made temporal.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Catherine wished to congratulate him, but knew not what to say, and her eloquence was only in her eyes.
— from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

Instead of replying, the child went to call his mother, and directly afterwards appeared a pretty woman in the family way, who politely asked me my business with her husband, apologizing for his absence.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Mistress now of North America, lording it in India, through the company whose territorial conquests had been ratified by native princes, over twenty millions of inhabitants,—a population larger than that of Great Britain and having a revenue respectable alongside of that of the home government,—England, with yet other rich possessions scattered far and wide over the globe, had ever before her eyes, as a [327] salutary lesson, the severe chastisement which the weakness of Spain had allowed her to inflict upon that huge disjointed empire.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

And when he saw he might not come within the castle, he put off his bridle and his saddle, and put his horse to pasture, and set himself down at the gate like a man that was out of his wit that recked not of himself.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

Miss La Creevy coughed once more—this cough was to conceal her disappointment—and said, ‘Oh, indeed!’
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

His hair could not have been more violently on end, if it had been that moment dressed by the Cow with the crumpled horn in the house that Jack built.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

The verity was his connection with Anna and his connection with the Church, his real being lay in his dark emotional experience of the Infinite, of the Absolute.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Now, we the Syndics and Judges in criminal cases within this city, having reviewed the process carried on before us, at the instance of our Lieutenant having charge of such cases, against thee, Michael Servetus of Villanova, in the Kingdom of Aragon, in Spain, whereby guided, and by thy voluntary confessions made before us, many times repeated, as well as by thy books produced before us, we decree and determine that thou, Michael Servetus, hast, for a long time, promulgated false and heretical doctrine, and, rejecting all remonstrance and correction, hast, maliciously, perversely, and obstinately, continued disseminating and divulging, even by the printing of books, blasphemies against God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, in a word, against the whole foundations of the Christian religion, thereby seeking to create schism and trouble in the Church of God, many souls, members of which may have been ruined and lost—horrible and dreadful thing, scandalous and contaminating in thee, thou, having no shame nor horror in setting thyself up in all against the Divine Majesty and the Holy Trinity, and having further taken pains to infect, and given thyself up obstinately to continue infecting the world with thy heresies and stinking heretical poison ( tes heresies et puante poyson hereticale )—case and crime of heresy grievous and detestable, deserving of severe corporal punishment.
— from Servetus and Calvin A Study of an Important Epoch in the Early History of the Reformation by Robert Willis

After Gallus had been permitted to repose himself a few days at Hadrianople, he received a mandate, expressed in the most haughty and absolute style, that his splendid retinue should halt in that city, while the Cæsar himself, with only ten post-carriages, should hasten to the Imperial residence at Milan.
— from History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 by Edward Gibbon

Towards the end of his connection with this campaign he constantly recurs to the various skirmishes, many being encounters mostly brought on by Servian patriots—small affairs in which no military skill was brought to bear, and in which the injuries were, for the most part, the result of musket bullets, the wounds by sword and bayonet being few.
— from George Alfred Henty: The Story of an Active Life by George Manville Fenn

The surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown on October 19th impressed the Government with the futility of a contest which the country had already realised, and which would have at once caused a change of administration if the House of Commons had been truly representative of the opinion of the country; "a sense of past error," wrote the Duke of Grafton in his autobiography, "and a conviction that the American war might terminate in further destruction to our armies, began from this time rapidly to insinuate itself into the minds of men.
— from George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life by George Augustus Selwyn

He always seemed gathering for a spring, which, combined with tigerish courage, had gained him his name.
— from The Settler by Herman Whitaker

They had no connection with the crimes he had committed, so I could do him the last little service he was ever to accept at my hands with a clear conscience.
— from The Queen of Hearts by Wilkie Collins

Standing there and looking down she saw her child and grandchild below, and she chanted: "Thy voice I have heard Softly echoed by the pali, Wailing against the pali; Thy voice, my child beloved; My child, indeed; My child, when the cloud hung over And the rainbow light was above us, That day when we floated together When the sea was breaking my heart; My child of the cape of Ka-ia, When the sun was hanging above us.
— from Legends of Gods and Ghosts (Hawaiian Mythology) Collected and Translated from the Hawaiian by W. D. (William Drake) Westervelt

Laws like this were in force in most of the colonies, and in all countries where the church had power.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll