that the more simple any thing is, the less liable it is to be disordered; and the easier repaired when disordered; and with this maxim in view, I offer a few remarks on the so much boasted constitution of England.
— from Common Sense by Thomas Paine

The wearied horse of Ivanhoe, and its no less exhausted rider, went down, as all had expected, before the well-aimed lance and vigorous steed of the Templar.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

An electric roaster was demonstrated at the Food Conservation Show in New York, in 1918, at a time when the federal government was urging the necessity of conserving coal as a war economy measure.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

More especially this attractive unreality fell upon it about nightfall, when the extravagant roofs were dark against the afterglow and the whole insane village seemed as separate as a drifting cloud.
— from The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

—Eagle rising, wings displayed and inverted.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

[122] binds Prometheus to Mount Caucasus, secures Ixion to the eternally revolving wheel, destroys Argus, the hundred-eyed guardian of Io, &c. &c. As conductor of shades, Hermes was always invoked by the dying to grant them a safe and speedy passage across the Styx.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

68 Note 67 ( return ) [ Hadrian afterwards made a very equitable regulation, which divided all treasure-trove between the right of property and that of discovery.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Therefore Miss Greeby, and with every reason, was disappointed, and when the queen of the woodland spoke she was still more so, for Mother Cockleshell did not even interlard her English speech with Romany words, as did Chaldea.
— from Red Money by Fergus Hume

For a brief period the wily criminal had shown a humility as deep as it was unusual; he had sat on a pile of wood alone, not even romping with Dick and Harry till he felt the Hour of Judgment had passed.
— from Baldy of Nome by Esther Birdsall Darling

Footnote 159: (return) To the English reader who desires an extended and accurate acquaintance with the classic and patristic literature of this deeply interesting subject, we commend the careful study of Cudworth's "Intellectual System of the Universe," especially ch.
— from Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker

“The Evil Eye,” repeated Woodward, dryly; “and pray, what harm could her evil eye do you?” “Why, nothing in the World,” replied the man, naively, “barrin' to wither us off o' the earth—that's all.”
— from The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by William Carleton

Sometimes, of course, it would be Etta Romney who drove and not my Lady Evelyn at all.
— from The Lady Evelyn: A Story of To-day by Max Pemberton

They kept silence, and there ascended from below, through the almost hidden crevice, a low whisper of an echoing roar, which died away in a peculiar hissing sound that was thrilling in its strange suggestiveness.
— from Crown and Sceptre: A West Country Story by George Manville Fenn

During the battle, Company G, of the Eleventh Regiment, was deployed as skirmishers along the run on the left flank of the Confederate line of battle, not far from the position occupied by the regiment, the men all lying down behind a fence that ran along the bank of Bull Run, in plain view of the other companies of the Eleventh Regiment; no Yankees appeared on this part of the line.
— from Personal Reminiscences of the War of 1861-5 In Camp—en Bivouac—on the March—on Picket—on the Skirmish Line—on the Battlefield—and in Prison by W. H. (William Henry) Morgan

For the same reason, united to a smaller foot, and some other circumstances, women, it is [Pg 200] observed, who execute gentle and light movements with so much skill, do not attempt with advantage great evolutions, run with difficulty and without grace, and fly—in order to be caught, as Rousseau has said.
— from Beauty: Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classificatin of Beauty in Woman by Alexander Walker

Against such men effectual resistance was difficult, and, unless reinforcements were at hand, or great success attained at the beginning, could not possibly be continued for very long.
— from In the grip of the Mullah: A tale of adventure in Somaliland by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton

It is agreed that he was sent to succeed Earl Richard (who died April 5, 1176); but while Miss Norgate holds that 'early in the next year Henry found it necessary to recall him', 18 Professor Tout places his recall in 1179, consequent on complaints against him to the king in January of that year.
— from Feudal England: Historical Studies on the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries by John Horace Round