Once more he saw himself the young banker's clerk, with an agreeable person, as clever in figures as he was fluent in speech and fond of theological definition: an eminent though young member of a Calvinistic dissenting church at Highbury, having had striking experience in conviction of sin and sense of pardon.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Moreover in the military sports, wherein equals vie with their equals in contests of swiftness and strength, affable and condescending, he conquered and was conquered with the same countenance; nor did he spurn any competitor who should offer; in his acts kind according to the occasion; in his conversation no less mindful of the ease of others than of his own dignity; and, a thing than which nothing is more agreeable to the people, he administered his offices by the same line of conduct by which he had gained them.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

But there the whole earth is composed of such, and far more brilliant and pure than these; for one part of it is purple, and of wonderful beauty, part of a golden color, and part of white, more white than chalk or snow, and, in like manner, composed of other colors, and those more in number and more beautiful than any we have ever beheld.
— from Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates by Plato

Except in cases of strong affection the Straits of Dover are an effectual though imaginary bar to intercourse of this kind, not to speak of the great oceans.
— from Human Intercourse by Philip Gilbert Hamerton

No private business could long endure if conducted on such a basis.
— from Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, June 1899 Volume LV by Various

Almost the whole body of the kingdom was diametrically opposed to the restoration of the absolute monarchy, with all its evils; and yet it must have been the object of the emigrants, in case of success, again to establish, not only royalty in its utmost prerogative, but all the oppressive privileges and feudal subjections which the Revolution had swept away.
— from Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume I. by Walter Scott

The republicans scrupled the policy of a war with France, and denied the necessity, even in case of such a war, of a large land force.
— from Great Events in the History of North and South America by Charles A. (Charles Augustus) Goodrich

The Khawas adhered to the chiefs of the Chitaur family, and were employed in confidential offices, such as stewards; while these chiefs soon indulged in the luxury of having mountain slaves round their persons.
— from An Account of The Kingdom of Nepal And of the Territories Annexed to this Dominion by the House of Gorkha by Francis Hamilton

I have met him in India, in Kashmir, at Embassies, in Consulates, on steamers, and I have never known his conduct alter by a hair's breadth.
— from My War Experiences in Two Continents by S. (Sarah) Macnaughtan

"Public sentiment in Alexandria is intensely excited in condemnation of Sumner and his allies.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 04 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

The summit was not visible, being enveloped in clouds of smoke and ashes.
— from Mark Seaworth by William Henry Giles Kingston