But in the present day, their ordinary disposition is the very opposite: they willingly make considerable sacrifices, especially of their pecuniary interest, for the benefit of the working classes, and err rather by too lavish and indiscriminating beneficence; nor do I believe that any rulers in history have been actuated by a more sincere desire to do their duty towards the poorer portion of their countrymen.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

He drove to the public meeting, where he was to find his sister-in-law, so as to drive home with her.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

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This ample patrimony was appropriated to supply the hospitable plenty of Clovis and his successors; and to reward the fidelity of their brave companions who, both in peace and war, were devoted to their persona service.
— 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

“In any event,” argued the prisoner’s counsel, “the prosecution must prove, beyond any reasonable doubt, that the prisoner committed the murder.
— from The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar by Maurice Leblanc

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— from Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare

A good story has been often told on this subject, which will bear repeating:—“A well-known divine and philanthropist was walking in a crowded street at night in order to distribute tracts to promising subjects.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

There can be no doubt that the prince has completely lost his senses.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

The faithful agents, the eyes and ears of the king, informed him of the progress of disorder, that the provincial governors flew to their prey with the fierceness of lions and eagles, and that their rapine and injustice would teach the most loyal of his subjects to abhor the name and authority of their sovereign.
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It was much too serious a measure, and attended with too many difficulties upon every side, for the then ministry to have undertaken it, as some paltry writers have asserted, from envy and dislike to their predecessors in office.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

The poor vacillating, double-dealing king was delivered to the Puritans, tried, and executed.
— from The Land-War in Ireland: A History for the Times by James Godkin

‘Her Majesty’ is a failure, and I haven’t a single decent thing to put on.
— from Berenice by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

My mind had all the while been kept in a state of agitation resembling the motion of a whirlpool, and, when we came to separate, I then discovered that the purpose for which I had sought the fields had been neglected, and that I had been diverted from the worship of God by attending to the quibbles and dogmas of this singular and unaccountable being, who seemed to have more knowledge and information than all the persons I had ever known put together.
— from The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg

With outstretched wings he jumped down on the floor, and would have gone direct to the [Pg 377] bed, but the Doctor caught him, and by main force held him back.
— from Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 by John Roby

Subsequently new basaltic eruptions either raised these deposits to their present height, or pierced them through in their original sites, both cases occurring on the same locality.
— from The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis, Sir

They have worked harder in their day than the people who talk eloquently about the dignity of labour.
— from The Criminal & the Community by James Devon

The young man, from his earliest childhood thus destined to the Church, devoted to the prospect of that profession all his studies, all his thoughts.
— from What Will He Do with It? — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

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— from Kate Vernon: A Tale. Vol. 2 (of 3) by Mrs. Alexander

It would have been such a cheap performance on the part of life, which has all sorts of chances at command, and need not descend to the poor tricks of second-rate fiction; and he accused Burnamy of a complicity in the bad taste of the affair, though he realized, when he reflected, that if it were really Burnamy he must have sailed in as much unconsciousness of the Triscoes as he himself had done.
— from Their Silver Wedding Journey — Volume 3 by William Dean Howells