From a neighboring church came the sounds of music, and the familiar tones reminded him of the organ at home at Kjoge; so he passed into the great cathedral.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

He can have no power over them but by their own consent, whatever he may drive them to say or do; and he has no lawfull authority, whilst force, and not choice, compels them to submission.
— from Second Treatise of Government by John Locke

Our young lady, in her fevered and nervous condition, could have had no more salutary medicine prescribed for her by any physician than that which chance put in her way.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

As the channel of trade between the East and the West, as the seat of a government that first organized the political news service and the consular system in the modern sense, the old city of lagoons formed a natural collecting center for important news items from all lands of the known world.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Kroe, t & m n Formerly a native cultivated coffee.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

True glory strikes [213] deep root and spreads its branches wide; but all pretences soon fall to the ground like fragile flowers, and nothing counterfeit can be lasting.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

After the field has been specified, the principal charge must be mentioned first, and no charge can take precedence of a bend, fess, pale, pile, chevron, cross, or saltire, except one of themselves.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

With the very first pennies I make, I’ll buy Father a new cloth coat.
— from The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi

Antony and Cleopatra now formed a new compact, called “Synapothanumenon,” signifying the order and agreement of those who will die together, in substitution for their former order of existence, called “Amimetobion,” meaning “no life comparable.”
— from The Girls' Book of Famous Queens by Lydia Hoyt Farmer

The clergy spared no means of consolidating their power, and it was their interest to brutalise the people, in order to domineer over them with the greater facility; and nothing could contribute more certainly to carry out that view than the puerilities of a worship solely limited page 109 p. 109 to the adoration of the physical man.
— from Roman Catholicism in Spain by Anonymous

Just east of the town was a shallow lake or pond, about a mile long and half as broad, called Dickebusch Etang, to cross which it was necessary to follow a narrow causeway, constructed by our engineers.
— from The Emma Gees by Herbert W. McBride

We have already heard from a nearly contemporary chronicler, the story of some of the great civilising works which he wrought in the wasted land, the aqueducts of Ravenna and Verona, the walls of Verona and Pavia, the baths, the palace, and the amphitheatre.
— from Theodoric the Goth: Barbarian Champion of Civilisation by Thomas Hodgkin

But one Sunday a Scotchman from a neighboring city called upon me, and declared with visible excitement
— from Ways of Nature by John Burroughs

The patients were few and no calls came from the surgeries.
— from Deadlock: Pilgrimage, Volume 6 by Dorothy M. (Dorothy Miller) Richardson

In the meanwhile intestine disturbances and wars with neighboring republics had reduced several of those cities which had lately been most flourishing, and none could compete successfully in the fourteenth century with Venice and Genoa, to which the foreign trade of Italy was left, and to whose marts the produce of the Levant and the countries bordering on the lower Mediterranean was brought, and either there or at the great cities of the interior exchanged for domestic manufactures and the industries of Central and Northern Europe.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 23, April, 1876-September, 1876. A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

I preferred to the pearls that were offered me by princes the pearls of the rosary I was telling with my fingers; and no costume could compete in my mind with the black barège veil that fell like a soft shadow over the snowy white cambric that encircled the beloved faces of the nuns of Grand Champ.
— from The Strand Magazine, Vol. 27, No. 161, May 1904 by Various

Damaris proved clever and teachable in the kitchen; and had, above all, the rare and admirable disposition to keep things scrupulously as she had found them; so that Luclarion, in her afternoon trips home, was comforted greatly to find that while she was "clearing and ploughing" at Mrs. Scarup's, her own garden of neatness was not being turned into a howling wilderness; and she observed, as is often done so astutely, that "when you do find a neat, capable, colored help, it's as good help as you can have."
— from Real Folks by A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney