Each way with anxious thought he scanned, And thus at length the monarch planned: “The Bride's Election will I hold, With every rite prescribed of old.”
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

But allow me to explain...” Raskolnikov put in again, still addressing Nikodim Fomitch, but trying his best to address Ilya Petrovitch also, though the latter persistently appeared to be rummaging among his papers and to be contemptuously oblivious of him.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

On this last point he is extremely reticent, preferring to call his teaching "occult science," since he recognizes that "real Rosicrucians never proclaim themselves as such"; it is therefore only in the inner circle of his society, on which no information is given to the public and into which members are admitted by much the same forms of initiation as those used by the Grand Orient, that Rosicrucianism is mentioned.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

Edward R. P. Moon, M.P. Mrs. Morgan-Browne.
— from Garden Cities of To-Morrow Being the Second Edition of "To-Morrow: a Peaceful Path to Real Reform" by Howard, Ebenezer, Sir

Unum opus, et requiem pariter disponimus ambo: Atque verecunda laxamus feria mensa.—Sat.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

Next morning we started at half-past six to ascend the pass which climbs the range of mountains by an excellent road paved with huge stones after the manner of the Via Appia where it leaves Rome at the Forum, and lined with huge pine trees and cryptomerias.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

V ARIANTS : Por esa razón ; por tal razón (or motivo ).
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

[4781] Otium et reges prius et beatas Perdidit urbes.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Ut quurn in eadem re paria contrariis in partibus momenta inveniuntur, facilius ab utraque parte assertio sustineatur: “That when like sentiments happen pro and con in the same thing, the assent may on both sides be more easily suspended.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

The impression he made was good in every respect, particularly as regards his appearance.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

Yekl indeed ought to be well known to the English reading public.
— from The Spirit of the Ghetto: Studies of the Jewish Quarter in New York by Hutchins Hapgood

In the current definition, "The exclusive right, power, or privilege of dealing in some article or trading in some market," the term "dealing in" is well chosen, for it is broad enough to cover cases of buying as well as selling, and includes power derived from political as well as from other sources.
— from The Principles of Economics, with Applications to Practical Problems by Frank A. (Frank Albert) Fetter

To the appeal of this generosity his emotions responded passionately; now he worshipped his Empress among women for more than her grace, her stateliness, or her beauty; he loved her for her courage and her loyalty.
— from Quisanté by Anthony Hope

They made short work, and simply ordered: “Toutes les enseignes qui portent des signes de royalisme, féodalité et de superstition seront renouvelées et remplacées par des signes républicains: les enseignes ne seront plus saillantes mais simplement peintes sur les murs des maisons.”
— from Old Tavern Signs: An Excursion in the History of Hospitality by Fritz August Gottfried Endell

But they have never yet manœuvred together, and when in 1892 a detachment from each regiment paraded at Erzerum, I am informed that the whole number did not amount to 2000, and that the sorry spectacle was presented to the Turkish general of a motley company of aged men and half-grown youths, mounted on horses which wanted muscle and had perhaps never tasted corn.
— from Armenia, Travels and Studies (Volume 2 of 2) The Turkish Provinces by H. F. B. (Harry Finnis Blosse) Lynch

Ellsworth, Rev. Philip B., Jefferstown, Ind. Lutheran.
— from Crimes of Preachers in the United States and Canada by M. E. Billings

The government has begun the second stage of an economic reform program in consultation with the World Bank, the IMF, and major donor countries.
— from The 1994 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

"As the object of coming to this country was not to make enquiry regarding past unfortunate events, but to obtain for my brethren dwelling in Roumania security for the future, and fully relying on the honoured words of His Serene Highness Prince Charles, 'Les Israélites sont l'objet de toute ma sollicitude et de toute celle de mon Gouvernement,' ...
— from Diaries of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore, Volume 2 (of 2) Comprising Their Life and Work as Recorded in Their Diaries, from 1812 to 1883 by Montefiore, Judith Cohen, Lady

4. Are very small or capillary Glass Tubes, of different Bores, let down into Tinged Water, in Vacuo, to shew, that by the Attraction of the Glass the Water will be elevated, contrary to the ordinary Law of Hydrostaticks, and that to a considerable Height; and what is chiefly remarkable, is, that the Altitude of the Liquid in the Tubes is the same in Vacuo as in the open Air, and is always in an exact reciprocal Proportion to the Diameters of their Bases. Fig. 5.
— from A Course of Mechanical, Magnetical, Optical, Hydrostatical and Pneumatical Experiments perform'd by Francis Hauksbee, and the Explanatory Lectures read by William Whiston, M.A. by William Whiston