The Persian lit his lamp again and flung its rays down two enormous corridors that crossed each other at right angles.
— from The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

Ill, as she is, simply makes her speak in this wise, and how ever could things come to such a pass!
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

It must remain a faction—strong enough in every community to control on the slightest division of the whites.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

Within a week the peasants who came with empty carts to carry off plunder were stopped by the authorities and made to cart the corpses out of the town.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

It is divided into three parts, each containing two chapters.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

I only ask of them evidence concerning their century; and in two thousand years a novel by Ducray-Duminil (59) will be evidence concerning the annals of ours.
— from On Love by Stendhal

But the form of every change, the condition under which alone it can take place as the coming into existence of another state (be the content of the change, that is, the state which is changed, what it may), and consequently the succession of the states themselves can very well be considered a priori, in relation to the law of causality and the conditions of time.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Storehouse of Indian tribes 433 Stories and story-tellers , Cherokee 230 , 232 , 236 – 238 , 428 – 430 Strawberry , myths concerning 259 , 443 , 468 Stringfield, Col. W. W. , acknowledgments to 13 Stringfield, Col. W. W. on East Cherokee in Civil war 169 – 170 Stringfield, Col. W. W. , taking of party of East Cherokee to Confederate reunion by 170 Stuart , Capt. John , capture and release of
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

It would be a kind of treason to proceed after this manner in our own domestic affairs, wherein a man must of necessity be of the one side or the other; though for a man who has no office or express command to call him out, to sit still I hold it more excusable (and yet I do not excuse myself upon these terms) than in foreign expeditions, to which, however, according to our laws, no man is pressed against his will.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

From here on, we are more than ever compelled to cull from a superabundant variety of incidents the leading events of a life which now saw some of its best and busiest days.
— from Life of Heber C. Kimball, an Apostle The Father and Founder of the British Mission by Orson F. (Orson Ferguson) Whitney

Human nature would be exalted, could the countless noble actions which, in times of most imminent danger, were performed in secret, be recorded for the instruction of future generations.
— from The Black Death, and The Dancing Mania by J. F. C. (Justus Friedrich Carl) Hecker

As he has previously argued or decided every cause that can come before any of the courts, he comes, not to profit by the wisdom of the more express organs of the law, but to tell how far they deflect from the right, by swerving from his institutes.
— from The Modern Athens A dissection and demonstration of men and things in the Scotch Capital. by Robert Mudie

He heard the shuffling feet of the quarry gang, his ears caught the clink of the chains which bound them together.
— from The Clue of the Twisted Candle by Edgar Wallace

He stated its principles to be "That England should keep entire in her own hands the means of estimating her own obligations upon the various states of facts as they arise; that she should not foreclose and narrow her own liberty of choice, by declarations made to other powers, in their real or supported interests, of which they would claim to be joint interpreters; that it is dangerous for her to assume alone an advanced, and therefore an isolated, position, in regard to European controversies; that, come what may, it is better for her to promise too little than too much; that she should not encourage the weak by giving expectations of aid to resist the strong, but should rather seek to deter the strong, by firm but moderate language, from aggression on the weak; that she should seek to develop and mature the action of a common, or public, or European opinion, as the best standing bulwark against wrong, but should beware of seeming to lay down the law of that opinion by her own authority, and thus running the risk of setting against Page 260 {260} her, and against right and justice, that general sentiment which ought to be, and generally would be, arrayed in their favour.
— from A Short History of English Liberalism by W. Lyon (Walter Lyon) Blease

It was not, however, without a passage at arms that Eudoxia consented to consider the idea of an addition to the family.
— from The Lion and the Mouse; a Story of an American Life by Arthur Hornblow

“The Local Government Board have declared that certain enactments are in force, but they cannot compel the Vestries to frame any regulations of their own, nor even can they compel Vestries to carry out and enforce regulations which the Vestries have framed and the Board have sanctioned.
— from The Sanitary Evolution of London by Henry (Henry Lorenzo) Jephson

It is obviously but a small part, after all, of an extended community that can be ever actively and personally engaged in these deeds of violence and blood.
— from History of Julius Caesar by Jacob Abbott

Friedrich Vollmer, of Munich, in his Studien (cit. Apiciana) has treated the manuscripts exhaustively, carrying to completion the research begun by Schuch, Traube, Ihm, Studemund, Giarratano and others with Brandt, his pupil, carrying on the work of Vollmer.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius