*w This double election rendered a majority probable, though not certain; for it was possible that as many differences might exist between the electors as between their constituents.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Pompeio cedere videbatur; parvi enim sunt foris arma, nisi est consilium domi; nec plus Africanus, singularis et vir et imperator, in exscindenda Numantia rei publicae profuit quam eodem tempore P. Nasica privatus, cum Ti. Gracchum interemit; quamquam haec quidem res non solum ex domestica est ratione (attingit etiam bellicam, quoniam vi manuque confecta est), sed tamen id ipsum est gestum consilio urbano sine exercitu.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Bloowhose dark eye read Aaron Figatner’s name.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

Beneath every spark, The red, tyrannous fire Mounts up in the dark Ever redder and higher; More swiftly than steed Uncontrolled, see it pass!
— from Poems by Victor Hugo

In that letter I ordered McPherson not to extend any farther to the left, but to employ General Dodge's corps (Sixteenth), then forced out of position, to destroy every rail and tie of the railroad, from Decatur up to his skirmish-line, and I wanted him (McPherson) to be ready, as soon as General Garrard returned from Covington (whither I had sent him), to move to the extreme right of Thomas, so as to reach if possible the railroad below Atlanta, viz., the Macon road.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Till death extinguish rage, and thought, and life.
— from The Iliad by Homer

My dear Emily, recollect and practise the precepts I have so often given you, and which your own experience has so often shewn you to be wise.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

Afterwards, when Nadyezhda Fyodorovna came to Petersburg, he would have to resort to a regular series of deceptions, little and big, in order to get free of her; and again there would be tears, boredom, a disgusting existence, remorse, and so there would be no new life.
— from The Duel and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

These are dangerous examples, rare and sickly exceptions to our natural rules: we must yield to them, but with great moderation and circumspection: no private utility is of such importance that we should upon that account strain our consciences to such a degree: the public may be, when very manifest and of very great concern.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

As explained in connection with the preceding text, these points are both characteristic of Secondary-series numbers, and we may conclude therefore that D2 E2 records a number of this kind.
— from An Introduction to the Study of the Maya Hieroglyphs by Sylvanus Griswold Morley

against ritual murder libel, I 176 Dress, Christian , forbidden to Jews by "Lithuanian Statute" (1566), I 87 deprecated by rabbis (1607), I 112 prescribed for Jewish visitors to Russian Interior (1835), II 40 prescribed for Jewish members of municipalities (1804), I 345 German D. adopted by "Berliners," I 384 Russian D. preferred by Jews to German D., I 350; see Dress, Jewish Dress, Jewish (hat or badge), prescribed by Synod of Breslau (1266), I 48 by Synod of Buda (1279), I 49 by Synod of Kalish (1420), I 57 by Diet of Piotrkov (1538), I 78 by Synod of Piotrkov (1542), I 83 abandoned by some Jews in Warsaw, I 300 f defended by Polish rabbi, I 283 Jews of Warsaw demand equal rights as reward for discarding, I 385
— from History of the Jews in Russia and Poland, Volume 3 [of 3] From the Accession of Nicholas II until the Present Day by Simon Dubnow

Sexuality debases, even reproduction and birth are regarded as "nauseating."
— from The Truth About Woman by C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine) Hartley

They are by these reverend Councillors also declared non-prejudicial to the spiritual authority of our Most Holy Church, which this Serene Republic of Venice doth ever reverently acknowledge.
— from A Golden Book of Venice by Turnbull, Lawrence, Mrs.

The all of thine that cannot die Through dark and dread Eternity, Returns again to me, And more thy buried love endears Than aught, except its living years.
— from From Chaucer to Tennyson With Twenty-Nine Portraits and Selections from Thirty Authors by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers

279 ‘“Compressed air in all the tanks, open galley ventilator, man the guns, Diesel engines ready, and put to utmost speed as soon as possible.”
— from Submarine and Anti-submarine by Newbolt, Henry John, Sir