So spake the Fiend, and with necessity, The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

Gobineau's theory, and that of the schools which have perpetuated and elaborated his doctrines, defined culture as an essentially racial trait.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Jerusalem occupies the central point, because it was found written in the Prophet Ezekiel: " Haec dicit Dominus Deus: Ista est Jerusalem , in medio gentium posui eam, et in circuitu ejus terras ;"[2] a declaration supposed to be corroborated by the Psalmist's expression, regarded as prophetic of the death of Our Lord: " Deus autem, Rex noster, ante secula operatus est salutem in medio Terrae" (Ps. lxxiii.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

In the first place, he understands how to elaborate his day dreams so that they lose their essentially personal element, which would repel strangers, and yield satisfaction to others as well.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

This came home to me when, two days later, I drove over with Flora to meet, as Mrs. Grose said, the little gentleman; and all the more for an incident that, presenting itself the second evening, had deeply disconcerted me.
— from The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

With necessity, the tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Even her death did not much diminish the hardships of the young man’s struggle for existence.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

True, thou didst deem [173] thyself capable of something higher than "the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations"; didst often occupy thyself with contemplating those "things which eye hath not seen, nor ear heard"; didst deem thyself a son of God, and "a joint-heir with Jesus Christ," "of things incorruptible and undefiled, and which fade not away, eternal in the heavens"; didst sometimes seem to see, with faith's triumphant gaze, those glorious scenes which thou wouldst traverse when in the spirit-land thou shouldst lead a pure spiritual life with other spirits, where all earthliness had been stripped off, all tears had been wiped away, and perfect holiness was thine through all eternity.
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation Including Some Strictures Upon the Theories of Rev. Henry L. Mansel and Mr. Herbert Spencer by Jesse Henry Jones

Now these particular points of the year, as has been well pointed out by a learned and ingenious writer, while they are of comparatively little moment to the European husbandman, do deeply concern the European herdsman; for it is on the approach of summer that he drives his cattle out into the open to crop the fresh grass, and it is on the approach of winter that he leads them back to the safety and shelter of the stall.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

He cannot think; he is unable to move; he can only write; breathless, unreflecting, unable to control himself or to exercise his critical faculties lest he dam the eruption, he dashes down his thoughts on scraps of paper—walking, standing, lying down, on the street, at the table, in the night—as if under unceasing command.
— from The Jewish State by Theodor Herzl

Quantum sat erit his dicere dignum, &c., 203 .
— from A Guide to the Exhibition of English Medals by British Museum. Department of Coins and Medals

But the flame of his deep-hawed and now glazing eyes had died down to a dim red smolder; his hard breathing spared nothing for a snarl now, and his head and body movements were, if anything, a little slower than before.
— from Jan: A Dog and a Romance by A. J. (Alec John) Dawson

They came up there—with perhaps two exceptions—to eat his dinners, drink his choice wines, and shoot his birds, but begrudged him more than ten minutes or so of their company each day.
— from The House of Whispers by William Le Queux

There is a sketch of him in the “Biographie Universelle,” and a life with an account of his exploits in Hungary, entitled: Histoire de Duc Mercoeur, par Bruseles de Montplain Champs, Cologne, 1689-97] At the siege of Alba Regalis, the Turks gained several successes by night sallies, and, as usual, it was not till Smith came to the front with one of his ingenious devices that the fortune of war changed.
— from Captain John Smith by Charles Dudley Warner

We are under obligations to R. D. Mussey, M. D., formerly Professor of Anatomy and Surgery, Dartmouth College, N. H., now Professor of Surgery in the Ohio Medical College; to J. E. M’Girr, A. M., M. D., Professor of Anatomy, Physiology, and Chemistry, St. Mary’s University, Ill.; to E. Hitchcock, Jr., A. M., M. D., Teacher of Chemistry and Natural History, Williston Seminary, Mass.; to Rev. E. Hitchcock, D. D., President of Amherst College, Mass., who examined the revised edition of this work, and whose valuable suggestions rendered important aid in preparing the manuscript for the present stereotype edition.
— from A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) by Calvin Cutter

Even his death did not stop the ravages of the Mongol horde that captured and sacked Bagdad, and, crossing the Tigris and Euphrates, pillaged all Asia Minor.
— from Oriental Rugs, Antique and Modern by W. A. (Walter Augustus) Hawley

"You must never do such a thing again, Freddie," his father told him, when the excitement had died down and the racing was once more started.
— from The Bobbsey Twins at the County Fair by Laura Lee Hope