We now found our top hamper of some use, for though it is liable to be carried away or sprung by the sudden "bringing up" of a vessel when pitching in a chopping sea, yet it is a great help in steadying a vessel when rolling in a long swell; giving it more slowness, ease, and regularity to the motion.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

"My opinion is MY opinion: another person has not easily a right to it"—such a philosopher of the future will say, perhaps.
— from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Scrap shut her eyes and refused to answer.
— from The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim

Inexpressible were the anguish and confusion of the defendant, when she found herself thus entrapped, and reflected, that she was on the point of being detected of felony; for she at once concluded, that the snare was laid for her, and knew that the officer of justice would certainly find the unlucky watch in one of the drawers of her scrutoire.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

It was a compound of El-Ees, and related to the God of light, as I have before shewn.
— from A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant

Again Galen (loc. cit.) and Paul (VI. xxiv) say that in cases where foreign bodies cannot be got out of the ear by more simple methods, we must incise behind the ear and remove them by means of the ear scoop.
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

Having received considerable reinforcements, General Early again returned to the valley, and, on the 9th of October, his cavalry encountered ours near Strasburg, where the rebels were defeated, with the loss of eleven pieces of artillery and three hundred and fifty prisoners.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

I have read a dialogue of Plato,—[The Phaedrus.]—of the like motley and fantastic composition, the beginning about love, and all the rest to the end about rhetoric; they fear not these variations, and have a marvellous grace in letting themselves be carried away at the pleasure of the wind, or at least to seem as if they were.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Although he voted for a provisional acceptance of the Constitution, he had supported an amendment requiring Congress to collect direct taxes or excises through State agency, which would have been in effect a return to the plan of requisitions—the bane of the Confederation.
— from Washington and his colleagues; a chronicle of the rise and fall of federalism by Henry Jones Ford

They stood face to face with the people, and each looked into the others' eyes and read there the grounds and sureties of an immortal triumph.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

The season for migration commences about October; but this bird seldom journeys farther south than Egypt, and returns to its summer quarters in the month of March.
— from Cassell's Book of Birds, Volume 2 (of 4) by Alfred Edmund Brehm

Ho easy to avoid the too freely circling glass, if a man is known to have established a rule to himself, from which he will not depart; and if it be not refused sullenly; but mirth and good humour the more studiously kept up, by the person; who would else indeed be looked upon as a spy on unguarded folly!
— from The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Volume 4 (of 7) by Samuel Richardson

I answer that, Everything which exists, so far as it exists and has a particular nature, tends naturally towards some good; since it comes from a good principle; because the effect always reverts to its principle.
— from Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

Ordered , That the said resolution be engrossed, and read the third time to-day.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 3 (of 16) by United States. Congress

Whenever at the meetings the disputes waxed too hot and stormy, the Little Russian stood up, and rocking [Pg 43] himself to and fro like the tongue of a bell, he spoke in his sonorous, resonant voice simple and good words which allayed their excitement and recalled them to their purpose.
— from Mother by Maksim Gorky

They differ further in containing no practical exercises and restricting their contents to rules of grammar.
— from The Teaching and Cultivation of the French Language in England during Tudor and Stuart Times With an Introductory Chapter on the Preceding Period by K. Rebillon (Kathleen Rebillon) Lambley

40 N. 74 W. English defeated by Washington, 1777 (W. of Ind.); University f. 1746, at Elisabethtown, and removed to Princeton, 1757.
— from A Literary & Historical Atlas of America by J. G. (John George) Bartholomew

He also extended and redecorated the royal palace at Nineveh, and devoted much attention to the temples.
— from Myths of Babylonia and Assyria by Donald A. (Donald Alexander) Mackenzie