Of the second part of the sermon—that in Tagalog—we have only a few rough notes, for Padre Damaso extemporized in this language, not because he knew it better, but because, holding the provincial Filipinos ignorant of rhetoric, he was not afraid of making blunders before them.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

This journey, with its varied incidents,—the wild paths, the night passed on the mountain, the steep rocky precipices, the hollow clefts, in which the rustling waters from time immemorial had worn away passages for themselves through blocks of stone,—all these were firmly impressed on Rudy's memory.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

And that all men may be restrained from invading others rights, and from doing hurt to one another, and the law of nature be observed, which willeth the peace and preservation of all mankind, the execution of the law of nature is, in that state, put into every man's hands, whereby every one has a right to punish the transgressors of that law to such a degree, as may hinder its violation: for the law of nature would, as all other laws that concern men in this world be in vain, if there were no body that in the state of nature had a power to execute that law, and thereby preserve the innocent and restrain offenders.
— from Second Treatise of Government by John Locke

The stories of Roman history, the behaviour of Fabricius, for instance, or Regulus and the honourable conduct of prisoners on various occasions released on parole, show that this consciousness of certain principles of honour in warfare was still more highly developed in Rome.
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

At least, we would gladly forewarn the unsuspecting girl that there is nothing in human shape or substance to receive her, unless it be the figure of Judge Pyncheon, who—wretched spectacle that he is, and frightful in our remembrance, since our night-long vigil with him!—still keeps his place in the oaken chair.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

After having vaulted three thousand metres of sewer in all quarters of the city, from the Rue Traversière-Saint-Antoine to the Rue de l’Ourcine, after having freed the Carrefour Censier-Mouffetard from inundations of rain by means of the branch of the Arbalète, after having built the Saint-Georges sewer, on rock and concrete in the fluid sands, after having directed the formidable lowering of the flooring of the vault timber in the Notre-Dame-de-Nazareth branch, Duleau the engineer died.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Igneous rocks, while still molten, have been forced into other rocks from below, or poured out on the surface from volcanoes.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

Hence follows an important law— that if a fact is once recognized correctly in its coarser form, then the possibility must be granted that it is correct in its subtler manifestations .
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

Boswell thus describes the eccentric doctor's outlook on this mode of living: We dined today at an excellent inn at Chapel-House, where Mr. Johnson commented on English coffee houses and inns remarking that the English triumphed over the French in one respect, in that the French had no perfection of tavern life.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

I look only to the strong man, the man on horseback, to save the state from its own rotten futility.”
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

"From which the reader may justly infer, that beggary and theft are rare in the United States; and though it may be alleged that such occurrences are frequent in the large cities, it may be at the same time remembered that these are the rendezvous of the scum of all nations, while on the other hand the fact, that in the country, and even in the villages, locks are rare on house and stable doors, affords the strongest confirmation that America presents by far fewer instances of robbery than the greater part of Europe."
— from The International Magazine, Volume 4, No. 5, December 1851 by Various

In view of such results, who should say that any nation was unfit for its own rule?
— from India under Ripon: A Private Diary by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

Fictio, in old Roman law, is properly a term of pleading, and signifies a false averment on the part of the plaintiff which the defendant was not allowed to traverse; such, for example, as an averment that the plaintiff was a Roman citizen, when in truth he was a foreigner.
— from Ancient Law: Its Connection to the History of Early Society by Maine, Henry Sumner, Sir

They left the hall as soon as the address was over, in order that they might make an early train home; for, instead of returning to Miss Allen's school, each girl was to go to her own home, and Miss Phillips was anxious that they all reach their destinations before dark.
— from The Girl Scouts' Good Turn by Edith Lavell

Strand Lane, hard by on the south, famous still for its old Roman bath, passed under the arch, and led to a water stair or landing pier.
— from Haunted London by Walter Thornbury

Pyrrhus, however, whatever may have been his faults in other respects, seems to have been very little inclined at any time to order his soldiers to encounter any danger which he was not willing himself to share.
— from Pyrrhus Makers of History by Jacob Abbott

He was a person himself who was so eager to give other people pleasure that he quivered with impatience to see them happy through his words or acts; he could not bear to think that any one to whom he was speaking was not perfectly comfortable in regard to him; and it was for this reason perhaps that he admired a girl who could prescribe herself a line of social conduct, and follow it out regardless of individual pangs—who could act from ideals and principles, and not from emotions and sympathies.
— from April Hopes by William Dean Howells

Gilbert's opinion of this poem is worth recording, the more especially as he expressly tells us that the first idea of Robert's becoming an author was started on this occasion.
— from Robert Burns by Gabriel Setoun