It would have looked more authentic if he had given the names of the dishonest contractor and the still more dishonest minister.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

King Louis has departed, consenting: amid the clangour of universal stormbell; amid the tramp of Ten thousand armed men, already arrived; and say, of Sixty thousand flocking thither.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Practise and the knowledge of human nature, or of the particular temperament with which she is trying to deal, can alone tell her when she may lead or provoke this or that one to being at his best, to his own satisfaction as well as that of the others who may be present.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

Mrs d'Urberville slept in a large four-post bedstead hung with heavy damask curtains, and the bullfinches occupied the same apartment, where they flitted about freely at certain hours, and made little white spots on the furniture and upholstery.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

Thence home by link and found a good answer from my father that Sir R. Bernard do clear all things as to us and our title to Brampton, which puts my heart in great ease and quiet.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Spite of all the drugs of Æsculapius, it only grew worse in its second year, till at last recourse was had to the Sibylline books,—a kind of oracle which, as Cicero says in his De Divinatione , owes significance to its interpreters, who make doubtful conjectures as they can or as they wish.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

If possible, there should be a park of several carriages at each depot, certainly at the principal one in each brigade.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

A double door, contrived at the back of the dining-room, opened, and I entered a room equal in dimensions to that which I had just quitted.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

By Austin Craig Registered in the Philippine Islands. [ 9 ] [ Contents ] Introduction As “ Filipinas dentro de Cien Años ”, this article was originally published serially in the Filipino fortnightly review “ La Solidaridad ”, of Madrid, running through the issues from September, 1889, to January, 1890.
— from The Philippines a Century Hence by José Rizal

commanded the tomb to be opened, that he might lay therein the precious gifts; judging it fitting, that the limbs of saints brought together from divers countries, as their equal merits had procured them admission into heaven, should find shelter in one tomb.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

The death of Sieur de Chauvin appears to have vacated his commission, at least practically, opening the way for another, which was obtained by the Commander de Chastes, whose expedition, accompanied by Champlain, as we have already seen, left Honfleur on the 15th of March, 1603.
— from Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 01 by Samuel de Champlain

A few minutes after, a ray of sunshine pierced the dark clouds, and to the bewildering astonishment of the masses, the cathedral was standing there absolutely unhurt.
— from Lightning Conductors: Their History, Nature, and Mode of Application by Anderson, Richard, F.C.S.

She wore a dress of golden tulle which was simply a sheath to her slender body, and from her neck hung a long rope of diamonds caught at the end by a small black fan; there was a wreath of diamonds like shining water drops linked together in her hair.
— from The Girl From His Town by Marie Van Vorst

Three children graced their domestic circle, and there was apparently nothing to mar the happiness of their Christian home.
— 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

Aunt Bernstein called him “my dearest child,” and thanked him for his noble, his generous behaviour to dear Maria.
— from The Virginians by William Makepeace Thackeray

In charge of these were four Arabs, and Max had no difficulty in distinguishing Cæsar and the half-caste de Costa.
— from The Fire-Gods: A Tale of the Congo by Charles Gilson

Col. Happiness is like the mirage in the desert; she tantalises us with a delusion that distance creates and that contiguity destroys.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

The Hampshire stood after the three others, and about four in the afternoon ran up between the duke de Choiseul and the prince Edward.
— 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

In short, we can again reply to Dr. Clarke, and to the theologians, that following up their own systems, the supposition is impossible, and ought not to be made, seeing that the Divinity, who according to their own shewing, made man, was not willing that he should have more than five senses; in other words, that he should be nothing but what he actually is; they all found the existence of these immaterial substances upon the necessity of a power that has the faculty to give a commencement to motion.
— from The System of Nature, or, the Laws of the Moral and Physical World. Volume 2 by Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'

But when I saw the harness, which was eked out by strings and ropes, when I saw that the cart was literally a dirt cart and that we would have to sit in hay, I decided that we would use the horse only to get us down there “Th’ ould Scut.”
— from Minerva's Manoeuvres: The Cheerful Facts of a "Return to Nature" by Charles Battell Loomis