] H2 anchor Chapter XXI: Why Great Revolutions Will Become More Rare A people which has existed for centuries under a system of castes and classes can only arrive at a democratic state of society by passing through a long series of more or less critical transformations, accomplished by violent efforts, and after numerous vicissitudes; in the course of which, property, opinions, and power are rapidly transferred from one hand to another.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

SYN: Juvenile, young, early, fresh, childish, unripe, puerile, callow, immature, beardless.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

But the recreation is too expensive for continual use, and robs the country of thousands of young, healthy, gifted men and women, who if they had not devoted themselves to the theatre would be excellent doctors, farmers, schoolmistresses, or officers.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Such flashes as you feel, Alec, I fear don't last!" Thus speaking she turned from the stile over which she had been leaning, and faced him; whereupon his eyes, falling casually upon the familiar countenance and form, remained contemplating her.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

As Roker turned somewhat fiercely upon Mr. Pickwick in saying this, and moreover muttered in an excited fashion certain unpleasant invocations concerning his own eyes, limbs, and circulating fluids, the latter gentleman deemed it advisable to pursue the discourse no further.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Balneis omnes hi populi utuntur familiarissime pro corporum abstersione, maximeque mulieres, quibus curae magis est corpora ipsarum pulchriora facere ipsorum, illuviem et foetorem corrigentes, ut cariores sint suis viris.
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

El francés comete un asesinato: el afrancesado ¡un parricidio!
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

At the office all the morning, where Sir W. Pen come, being returned from Chatham, from considering the means of fortifying the river Medway, by a chain at the stakes, and ships laid there with guns to keep the enemy from coming up to burn our ships; all our care now being to fortify ourselves against their invading us.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Why does everybody feel called upon to concern himself about me?
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

An experienced feeder can usually tell by the eagerness of the fowls for their food whether to increase or diminish the quantity; but the most expert poultry keeper does not rely upon this kind of observation alone.
— from Our Domestic Birds: Elementary Lessons in Aviculture by John H. (John Henry) Robinson

She made an excuse for calling upon him.
— from The Ivory Gate, a new edition by Walter Besant

Dose , six grains morning and evening for children under one year; nine grains for those under two and three years of age; fifteen grains for those between five and ten; and thirty grains for adults.
— from Enquire Within Upon Everything The Great Victorian Domestic Standby by Robert Kemp Philp

"And to reward their loyalty and opportune aid," cried the emperor, "Ferdinand conferred upon the Eleventh Cuirassiers the privilege of riding through Vienna, trumpet sounding and colors flying, and of pitching their tents on the Burgplatz."
— from Prince Eugene and His Times by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

In short, he took the cargoe and sold it some time after, yet still he seem’d to have some fears upon him least these proceedings should have a bad end; for, coming up with a Dutch Ship some time, when his men thought of nothing but attacking her, Kid oppos’d it; upon which a mutiny arose, and the majority being for taking the said ship, and arming themselves to man the boat to go and seize her, he told them, such as did, never should come on Board him again; which put an end to the design, so that he kept company with the said ship some time, without offering her any violence:
— from Pirates by Johnson, Charles, active 1724-1731

eworthy feature," commented upon by one of the English newspaper correspondents in a despatch telegraphed during the day, "is the silence of the great shipyards.
— from Ulster's Stand For Union by Ronald McNeill

Such stuff Was courtesy, she thought, and cause enough For calling up that spot of joy."
— from Browning's Heroines by Ethel Colburn Mayne

[216] William Le Poidevin was told by his grandmother that the “blanche-épine” is “le roi des bois;” the wood must not be employed for common uses.
— from Guernsey Folk Lore a collection of popular superstitions, legendary tales, peculiar customs, proverbs, weather sayings, etc., of the people of that island by MacCulloch, Edgar, Sir

He, like Wilson, and probably before Wilson, deliberately aimed at a style of gorgeous elaboration, intended not exactly for constant use, but for use when required; and he achieved it.
— from A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) by George Saintsbury

Ce fort ayant été ruine, M. de Sorel en fit construire un autre auquel on donna son nom; ce nom s'est communiqué à la rivière qui le conservé encore aujourd'hui, quoique le fort ne subsiste plus depuis longtemps (1721)."—Charlevoix, tom.
— from The Conquest of Canada, Vol. 1 by George Warburton