The main drains are big enough and airy enough for anyone.
— from The War of the Worlds by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Which latter feat Major Lecointre declares that he will not perform, not at least by any known laws of fence; that he nevertheless will, according to mere law of Nature, by dirk and blade, 'exterminate' any 'vile gladiator,' who may insult him or the Nation;—whereupon ( for the Major is actually drawing his implement ) 'they are parted,' and no weasands slit.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Again, in 1770, a dispute arose between England and Spain relative to the possession of the Falkland Islands.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

He gorged himself habitually at table, which made him bilious, and gave him a dim and bleared eye and flabby cheeks.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

Adams was young and easily deceived, in spite of his diplomatic adventures, but even at twice his age he could not see that this reliance on Grant was unreasonable.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

Ne'er scorn a poor Poet like me, For idly just living and breathing, While people of every degree Are busy employed about—naething.
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

Nor did he take any trouble to provide himself with those remedies which might have enabled him to bear pain, such as firmness of mind, a shame of doing anything base, exercise, and the habit of patience, precepts of courage, and a manly hardiness; but he says that he supports himself on the single recollection of past pleasures, as if any one, when the weather was so hot as that he was scarcely able to bear it, should comfort himself by recollecting that he was once in my country, 191 Arpinum, where he was surrounded on every side by cooling streams.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

In sacerdotal societies every element is on a more dangerous scale, not merely cures and remedies, but also pride, revenge, cunning, exaltation, love, ambition, virtue, morbidity:—further, it can fairly be stated that it is on the soil of this essentially dangerous form of human society, the sacerdotal form, that man really becomes for the first time an interesting animal , that it is in this form that the soul of man has in a higher sense attained depths and become evil —and those are the two fundamental forms of the superiority which up [Pg 29] to the present man has exhibited over every other animal.
— from The Genealogy of Morals The Complete Works, Volume Thirteen, edited by Dr. Oscar Levy. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

disputation at, between Eck and Œcolampadius, 182-184 .
— from The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan by Ellen Gould Harmon White

Does any body expect any thing from the terrible generosity of the Great Nation?
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 2 (of 16) by United States. Congress

"And have lessons," continued Dora, "without any person to help us, as Emily would have done; and be engaged all day besides in attending upon mamma."
— from Amy Herbert by Elizabeth Missing Sewell

If it had been to do him any good, or to do any body else any good, or from mistake, or mere thoughtlessness, I should not have thought so much of it; but to do it for fun !”
— from Caleb in the Country by Jacob Abbott

He had disclosed what was in his mind in the letter to Lord Burghley, written when he was thirty-one (1590/91), in which he announced that he had "taken all knowledge for his province," to "purge it of 'frivolous disputations' and 'blind experiments,' and that whatever happened to him, he meant to be a 'true pioneer in the mine of truth.'"
— from Bacon by R. W. (Richard William) Church

Many natural tears I shed at this parting, which until then had not seemed so desperate and final; {612} and for a while would not listen to the consolations which were offered by the good friends who were so tender to me, but continued to wander about in a disconsolate manner in the garden, or passionately to weep in my own chamber, until Muriel, the sovereign mistress of comfort to others, albeit ever ailing in her body, and contemned by such as dived not through exterior deformity into the interior excellences of her soul, with sweet compulsion and authoritative arguments drawn from her admirable faith and simple devotion, rekindled in mine the more noble sentiments sorrow had obscured, not so much through diverting, as by elevating and sweetening, my thoughts to a greater sense of the goodness of God in calling my father, and peradventure Edmund also, to so great an honor as the priesthood, and never more honorable than in these days, wherein it oftentimes doth prove the road to martyrdom.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 01, April to September, 1865 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Various

The Bishop of Wurtzburg, who had run away, now returned, traversed his diocese accompanied by executioners, and watered it alike with the blood of the rebels and of the peaceful friends of the Word of God.
— from History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century, Volume 3 by J. H. (Jean Henri) Merle d'Aubigné

In the same letter he went on to remark, "I say ten dollars as being enough and not a halfpenny too much.
— from Lippincott's Magazine, December, 1885 by Various

BALLATETTA The light became her grace and dwelt among Blind eyes and shadows that are formed as men Lo, how the light doth melt us into song: The broken sunlight for a healm she beareth Who hath my heart in jurisdiction.
— from Canzoni & Ripostes Whereto are appended the Complete Poetical Works of T.E. Hulme by T. E. (Thomas Ernest) Hulme