It will seek to ensure equality, not by levelling the Few but by elevating the Many.”
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

The division of rights would naturally follow the division of duties and functions; and that is already made by consent, or at all events not by law, but by general custom, modified and modifiable at the pleasure of the persons concerned.
— from The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill

+ mierce (e) n. boundary, limit , A 4·141 35 : sign, token , MkL 16 17 .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

Mine are short-liv'd; the tincture of your name Creates in them, but dissipates as fast, New spirits: for, strong agents with the same Force that doth warme and cherish, us doe wast; 20 Kept hot with strong extracts, no bodies last:
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

For the emigrants of former ages performed their expeditions not by land, but by water; 13 and that immense, and, if I may so call it, hostile ocean, is rarely navigated by ships from our world.
— from The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus by Cornelius Tacitus

The early Norman builders loved to bestow much labour on their capitals; and while preserving the usual cushion form, enriched them with much elaboration.
— from English Villages by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

She's unhappy enough now; but life as Dick's nurse and attendant is a thousand times easier for her than life as Dick's wife.
— from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

I experienced nothing but light northerly winds all the way across.
— from The Colonial Clippers by Basil Lubbock

In order to secure an even distribution of the tithes, a tenth of which was in turn due to the Aaronides, and of those gifts which belonged to the latter exclusively, Nehemiah built large granaries, where all contributions were to be stored, and whither those entitled thereto were to repair to have their due shares assigned to them by special officials.
— from History of the Jews, Vol. 1 (of 6) by Heinrich Graetz

Lilly b'y no fred dem witch; 'e no bodder lilly b'y.
— from Nights With Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris

But this difficulty, also, had evidently not been lost sight of in the exhaustive ethical discussion just concluded.
— from Sylvie and Bruno Concluded (Illustrated) by Lewis Carroll

The entities not being, like the gods, framed after the exemplar of men—being neither, like them, invested with human passions, nor supposed, like them, to have power beyond the phaenomena which are the special department of each, there was no fear of offending them by the attempt to foresee and define their action, or by the supposition that it took place according to fixed laws.
— from Auguste Comte and Positivism by John Stuart Mill

It is strange that more people do not make the backstops a real architectural feature as for this court on Mr. Gage E. Tarbell's estate, Nassau Boulevard, L.I., Oswald C. Hering, architect CARE OF COURTS A
— from Making a Tennis Court by George E. Walsh

Each night Ed called each night both lovers met; They’d try in vain each other to outset.
— from For Your Sweet Sake: Poems by James E. (James Ephraim) McGirt

He could see, in imagination, the sneer that would creep over Cope's face as the latter asked him why he could not obtain a mortgage on his fine new mansion at Pincote; the mansion he had talked so much about--about which he had bored his friends; the mansion that was to have been built out of the Alcazar shares, but of which not even the foundation-stone would ever now be laid.
— from In the Dead of Night: A Novel. Volume 3 (of 3) by T. W. (Thomas Wilkinson) Speight