But should these gentlemen, who are quite satisfied with their lot, feel indisposed to do anything for their fellow-Jews who are unjustly held responsible for the large possessions of certain individuals, then the realization of this plan will afford an opportunity for drawing a clear line of distinction between them and the rest of Jewry.
— from The Jewish State by Theodor Herzl

The next morning, as soon as he awoke, Danglars asked for the newspapers; they were brought to him; he laid aside three or four, and at last fixed on l’Impartial , the paper of which Beauchamp was the chief editor.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Go down and face them like a man.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

A. Axillary vein, drawn apart from the artery, to show the nerves lying between both vessels.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

By showing him so much respect, Thou didst, as it were, cease to feel for him, for Thou didst ask far too much from him—Thou who hast loved him more than Thyself!
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

But as their motion is seldom direct, and naturally turns a little to the one side or the other; for this reason the animal spirits, falling into the contiguous traces, present other related ideas in lieu of that, which the mind desired at first to survey.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

During the Captivity, the Jews had no Common-wealth at all And after their return, though they renewed their Covenant with God, yet there was no promise made of obedience, neither to Esdras, nor to any other; And presently after they became subjects to the Greeks (from whose Customes, and Daemonology, and from the doctrine of the Cabalists, their Religion became much corrupted): In such sort as nothing can be gathered from their confusion, both in State and Religion, concerning the Supremacy in either.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

"The soil was dry and fertile, the air is pure and wholesome, and though extremely hot during the summer months, this country seldom feels those sultry and noxious winds, to which the coasts of Istria and some parts of Italy are exposed.
— 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

“And three of them died afterwards, for the merchant had cut them badly with the scythe, too.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

They were engaged about the end of that time to attend Lady Middleton to a party, from which Mrs. Jennings was kept away by the indisposition of her youngest daughter; and for this party, Marianne, wholly dispirited, careless of her appearance, and seeming equally indifferent whether she went or staid, prepared, without one look of hope or one expression of pleasure.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Mohammedanism entered Egypt in 638 A. D., and from that time it has continued to be the prevailing religion.
— from Riches of Grace: A Compilation of Experiences in the Christian Life A Narration of Trials and Victories Along the Way by E. E. (Enoch Edwin) Byrum

sobbed Mrs. Finch, as she complacently dropped a few tears.
— from Marriage by Susan Ferrier

Arkwright heard the words dully and felt that he was being mocked.
— from The Lion and the Unicorn by Richard Harding Davis

All the family rushed down again from the roof.
— from By Far Euphrates: A Tale by Deborah Alcock

For years his days had dawned and faded thus Among the plants; the flowery silence fell Deep in his soul, like rain upon a soil Worn by the solstice fierce, and made it pure.
— from Mosada: A dramatic poem by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats

While I looked, the tirailleurs of Jerome’s Division advanced from the front of the line, and descending the hill in a sling trot, broke into scattered parties, keeping up as they went a desultory and irregular fire.
— from Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 by Charles James Lever

They did not know what it meant to drive a foe to desperation.
— from Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 11 (of 15), Roman by Charles Morris

The vapid talk at dinner, poor little Mrs. Porcher's misplaced advances—the fact of which it appeared to him equally idle to deny and fatuous to admit—the dreary scene with his unhappy fellow-lodger, the good deed done which just now appeared fruitless—all these contributed to make the complaint of the exiled cedar's tormented branches an echo of the complaint of his own heart.
— from The Far Horizon by Lucas Malet

And I discovered a few things in each country in which I lived.
— from Saxe Holm's Stories First Series by Helen Hunt Jackson

It is supposed that the jewels had been packed by the Princess in anticipation of her doom, and forwarded to her sister through her agency or desire.]
— from Memoirs of the Courts of Louis XV and XVI. — Volume 7 Being secret memoirs of Madame Du Hausset, lady's maid to Madame de Pompadour, and of the Princess Lamballe by Mme. Du Hausset