[116] When, in 1316, Uguccione was driven out of Lucca and Pisa, that great partisan took military service with Can Grande.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

For one duel in esse , there are ten thousand, every day of our lives, amid populous cities, in posse : one challenge is given, a myriad are feared: one life (and usually the most worthless, by any actual good rendered to society) is sacrificed, suppose triennially, from a nation; every life is endangered by certain modes of behaviour.
— from The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg by Thomas De Quincey

There followed the withdrawal of coal lands as already described, of oil lands and phosphate lands, and finally, just at the end of the Administration, of water-power sites on the public domain.
— from Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt

The sun was now dropping into the West; the woods on our right had darkened; on our left a pink light netted the river ripples.
— from The Hidden Children by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

The long naves all seem, through the converging rows of columns, to point to that altar in the distance where is seen the twinkling light that ever burns before the tabernacle, drawing one on like a powerful magnet.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 08, October, 1868, to March, 1869. by Various

It contained a stern appeal for the organization of measures of defence, and ended by the dignified and significant words: "You will forgive us, gentlemen, if we assume characters somewhat higher than that of humble suitors praying for the defence of our lives and properties as a matter of grace or favour on your side.
— from French and English: A Story of the Struggle in America by Evelyn Everett-Green

That is to say, here, as throughout, he made the discipline of the prisoners as {176} much like the discipline of ordinary life as possible: let them experience just
— from Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative; Vol. 3 of 3 Library Edition (1891), Containing Seven Essays not before Republished, and Various other Additions. by Herbert Spencer

Even if we must from now on walk softly all the days of our life, and prepare to accept unresentfully disappointment and heart-sickening delay, we can still draw comfort from this: Hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all.
— from The Trade Union Woman by Alice Henry

Buddhism failed to ennoble the daily occupations of life, and produced drones and idlers and religious vagabonds.
— from Beacon Lights of History, Volume 01: The Old Pagan Civilizations by John Lord