They have simply chosen from among the entire set of propensities at their command those that were certain to construct, out of the materials given, the leanest, lowest, aridest result,—namely, the bare molecular world,—and they have sacrificed all the rest.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

Then they tried to push her off, thinking they had grounded on a shoal, but for all their efforts she did not move.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 1 by Emperor of Rome Julian

Now in the various motions which the cranium A A B performs upon the top of the cervical spine C, motions backwards, forwards, and to either side, it will follow that, taking C as a fixed point, almost all parts of the cranial periphery will be brought vertical to C in succession, and therefore whichever point happens at the moment to stand opposite to C, and has impelling force applied to it, then C becomes the point of resistance, and thus counter-fractures at the cranial base occur in the neighbourhood of C. When force is applied to the cranial vertex, whilst the body is in the erect posture, the top of the cervical spine, E D C, becomes the point of resistance.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

Before the Austrasian army retreated from Auvergne, Theodoric exacted some pledges of the future loyalty of a people, whose just hatred could be restrained only by their fear.
— 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

Each State, yielding to the persuasive voice of immediate interest or convenience, has successively withdrawn its support, till the frail and tottering edifice seems ready to fall upon our heads, and to crush us beneath its ruins. PUBLIUS 1.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

As far as they extend so is the spiritual vision perfected, until at last a Korean sufficiently advanced could sit and say, “In London, to-day, such and such a great affair is taking place.”
— from Korean Folk Tales: Imps, Ghosts and Faries by Yuk Yi

in return, in consideration; but, however, yet, still, notwithstanding; nevertheless, nathless[obs3], none the less; although, though; albeit, howbeit; mauger[obs3]; at all events, at any rate; be that as it may, for all that, even so, on the other, hand, at the same time, quoad minus[Lat], quand meme[Fr], however that may be; after all is said and done; taking one thing with another &c. (average) 29.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

And now he was about to scatter his thunder over all lands; but he was afraid lest, perchance, the sacred æther might catch fire, from so many flames, and the extended sky might become inflamed.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

187 Florence at this epoch still called itself a Republic; and of all Italian commonwealths it was by far the most democratic.
— from Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III by John Addington Symonds

Accordingly we took the canoes across the lake as soon as our hunters had started, and put up our deerskin lodge in the shelter of a clump of well-grown pine trees; we tried the hand-lines for hours without any better result than completely numbing our fingers, and towards evening set the net, also without any luck.
— from The Barren Ground of Northern Canada by Warburton Pike

The Mother and Manna sat trustfully beside each other; for a time every sorrow was forgotten, every care, every anxiety.
— from Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Berthold Auerbach

4 And round about the throne were 180 four and twenty seats: and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, 181 clothed in white raiment; and they had on their heads 182 crowns of gold.
— from Notes on the New Testament, Explanatory and Practical: Revelation by Albert Barnes

[611] — Whether true or not, this statement, coming as it does from a totally external source, strongly supports the view often held that the ryots of South India were grievously oppressed by the nobles when subject to Hindu government.
— from A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): A Contribution to the History of India by Nunes, Fernão, active 16th century

34:27 The tree of the field shall yield its fruit, and the earth shall yield its increase, and they shall be secure in their land; and they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have broken the bars of their yoke, and have delivered them out of the hand of those who made slaves of them.
— from The World English Bible (WEB), Complete by Anonymous

Looked at from a truly enlightened standpoint, and regarded fully and clearly, his act had indeed been of the most excusable kind.
— from 'Jena' or 'Sedan'? by Franz Adam Beyerlein