It is therefore conceivable that at a great distance, under conditions of sharp or accidental illuminations, etc., we are likely to see things as sparkling which do not do so in the least.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

Those who preach to princes so circumspect and vigilant a jealousy and distrust, under colour of security, preach to them ruin and dishonour: nothing noble can be performed without danger.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Virtue knows no color line, and the chivalry which depends upon complexion of skin and texture of hair can command no honest respect.
— from The Red Record Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States by Ida B. Wells-Barnett

ranger , mettre en rang dans un certain ordre; soumettre avec contrainte.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

Marx himself was aware of that problem, as is seen in his analysis of disequilibrium under conditions of simple reproduction (zero net investment).
— from The Accumulation of Capital by Rosa Luxemburg

It is this: Considering how few good husbands there are in the world, and how many good women there are who would have been to them a crown of glory and a royal diadem, had the coronation but been effected, but who, instead, are losing all their pure gems down the dark, unfathomed caves of some bad man’s
— from A New Atmosphere by Gail Hamilton

Wilson remarks that in the State of Delaware these birds collect in immense flocks and commit great devastation upon crops of standing corn.
— from A History of North American Birds; Land Birds; Vol. 2 of 3 by Robert Ridgway

"The dancers usually consist of six youths dressed in white ribands, attended by a fiddler, a youth with the name of Bessey, and also by one who personates a Doctor.
— from Musical Myths and Facts, Volume 2 (of 2) by Carl Engel

Yet his followers, though greatly inferior in numbers to the enemy, behaved with spirit; and the field was well contested, till a body of Andalusian horse, making a détour under cover of some rising ground, fell unexpectedly on the rear of the Moriscoes, and threw them into confusion.
— from History of the Reign of Philip the Second King of Spain, Vol. 3 And Biographical & Critical Miscellanies by William Hickling Prescott

There is something of the fine lady about her—if one may use the personal pronoun, but one cannot forget the twenty thousand workmen whose twenty-two years’ toil contributed to her splendour; and it is recorded, too, that their work was done under conditions of semi-starvation, and at the price of many lives, over and above the four millions of money at which the cost is usually estimated.
— from India Impressions, With some notes of Ceylon during a winter tour, 1906-7. by Walter Crane

These included among many others: the earliest possible payment of the national debt; regulation of the rates of railways and telegraph companies; repeal of the specie resumption act of 1875; the issue of legal tender notes by the government convertible into interest-bearing obligations on demand; unlimited coinage of silver as well as gold; a graduated inheritance tax; legislation to take from "land, railroad, money, and other gigantic corporate monopolies ... the powers they have so corruptly and unjustly usurped"; popular or direct election of United States Senators; woman suffrage; and a graduated income tax, "placing the burden of government on those who can best afford to pay instead of laying it on the farmers and producers."
— from History of the United States by Mary Ritter Beard