Another species is distinguished by the mode of electing their magistrates, in which every one is eligible, to whose birth there are no objections, provided he is supposed to have leisure to attend: for which reason in such a democracy the supreme power will be vested in the laws, as there will be nothing paid to those who go to the public assemblies.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

I pushed by a butcher boy, who luckily did not turn to see the nothingness that shoved him aside, and dodged behind the cab-man's four-wheeler.
— from The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

It is a short account of the facts elicited at the death of Sir Charles Baskerville which occurred a few days before that date.”
— from The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

In the most remote antiquity, and to some extent also in the Middle Ages, the conquered became slaves,—in other words, they had to work for those who conquered them; and where is the difference between that and paying war-taxes, which represent the product of our previous work?
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims by Arthur Schopenhauer

As this is a book about coffee, the entries in the Index refer—unless otherwise specified—to that general subject, and more particularly to Coffea arabica ; other varieties are distinguished by their scientific or trade names.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

A New Interest in Life T HE next afternoon Anne, bending over her patchwork at the kitchen window, happened to glance out and beheld Diana down by the Dryad’s Bubble beckoning mysteriously.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

With one hand I caught the jib-boom, while my foot was lodged between the stay and the brace; and as I still clung there panting, a dull blow told me that the schooner had charged down upon and struck the coracle and that I was left without retreat on the Hispaniola .
— from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

To love one's country, unless that love is quite blind and lazy, must involve a distinction between the country's actual condition and its inherent ideal; and this distinction in turn involves a demand for changes and for effort.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

They landed at Mazara near the ruins of the ancient Selinus; but after some partial victories, Syracuse 83 was delivered by the Greeks, the apostate was slain before her walls, and his African friends were reduced to the necessity of feeding on the flesh of their own horses.
— 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

If you live, my dear Blanche, to re-visit this spot, at the distance of many years, you will, perhaps, remember and understand the feelings of your father.' Lady Blanche, affected by these words, remained silent; she looked forward to the period, which the Count anticipated, and considering, that he, who now spoke, would then probably be no more, her eyes, bent to the ground, were filed with tears.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

Wendot, bewildered and astonished and ashamed, could scarce believe his senses, and asked, with a proud independence which raised a smile in Alphonso's eyes, that he might be led out to speedy death -- the death by the headsman's axe, which was all he had now to hope for.
— from The Lord of Dynevor: A Tale of the Times of Edward the First by Evelyn Everett-Green

Soon no host had felt his party, whether breakfast or cocoa, to be a real social éclat unless one at least of his guests could enliven the discussion, whether it turned upon the beauties of Beowulf or the existence of a Deity, by the apt quotation of Gaveston ffoulis’s opinion on the point at moot.
— from The Oxford Circus: A Novel of Oxford and Youth by Hamish Miles

One was dead between the food-pile and the house.
— from The Rocky Mountain Wonderland by Enos A. Mills

It is usually denominated by the name of the place whence it comes.
— from A System of Pyrotechny Comprehending the theory and practice, with the application of chemistry; designed for exhibition and for war. by James Cutbush

It is a mistake to suppose that the honeymoon disappears below the horizon with the rapidity of a tropical sun.
— from A Modern Chronicle — Complete by Winston Churchill

David began to feel himself in a false position.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Samuel by William Garden Blaikie

Perhaps this motion hastened the resolution of the duke de Broglio to abandon Giessen, and fall back to Friedberg, where he established his head-quarters.
— from The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. Continued from the Reign of William and Mary to the Death of George II. by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Crawford, immediately dismounting, began to take the saddle off his horse.
— from Hendricks the Hunter; Or, The Border Farm: A Tale of Zululand by William Henry Giles Kingston

'Our young friends sailed on Sunday, August 7; and we expected the Bishop to sail the next day, but the winds were foul and boisterous, and we had him with us till Friday morning, the 12th.
— from Life of John Coleridge Patteson : Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge