I understand and believe what all Americans say here—the military party that controls Japan’s foreign policy in China regards everything but positive action, prepared to back itself by force, as fear and weakness, and is only emboldened to go still further.
— from Letters from China and Japan by Harriet Alice Chipman Dewey

What were Swigby’s former pursuits I can’t tell.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

"Let not your Majesty feel wrath," replied [Pg 36] The Lamb, "nor be unjust to me, from passion; I cannot, Sire, disturb in any fashion The stream which now your Royal Highness faces, I'm lower down by at least twenty paces."
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

He found means to communicate with her from his prison, and her Highness, who was not in open disgrace yet (for the Duke, out of regard to the family, persisted in charging Magny with only robbery), made the most desperate efforts to relieve him, and to bribe the gaolers to effect his escape.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

For the present, we will confine ourselves to this first period; its cruel and unforeseen consequences will but too frequently oblige me to refer to it.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Had this sphinx his fore paws in crime and his hind paws in authority?
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

People said that he had studied the grandeur or beauty of conception and every touch of the master-hand in all the most famous pictures in cabinets and galleries and on the walls of churches till there was nothing more for his powerful mind to learn.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In the first place it can hardly have escaped any one that we base everything upon the assumption of a psyche of the mass in which psychic processes occur as in the psychic life of the individual.
— from Totem and Taboo Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics by Sigmund Freud

Where heroes war, the foremost place I claim, The first in danger as the first in fame.
— from The Iliad by Homer

And I am determined to go with him to America by the first packet I can secure."
— from Richard Carvel — Volume 05 by Winston Churchill

Go on quickly, and tell me the rest; for perhaps I can help these poor people."
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 10, October, 1869 to March, 1870 by Various

Going up and down on this little stair, the very smallest children can learn movements which they cannot follow properly in climbing ordinary stairways in their homes, in which the proportions are arranged for adults.
— from The Montessori Method Scientific Pedagogy as Applied to Child Education in 'The Children's Houses' with Additions and Revisions by the Author by Maria Montessori

One, moreover, who holds himself so clever that he believes he has nothing left to learn, and in every flower of truth that is shown to him, however fair, smells only poison, and beneath, nurturing it, sees only the gross root of falsehood planted in corruption.
— from She and Allan by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

A returned convict, who, in this foul phraseology, is called an "ogre," or a woman in the same degraded state, who is termed an "ogress," generally keep such "cribs," frequented by the refuse of the Parisian population; freed felons, thieves, and assassins are there familiar guests.
— from The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 1 of 6 by Eugène Sue

What they do we could not exactly learn, except that they put the powder for paint in cans, and label them.
— from The Employments of Women: A Cyclopædia of Woman's Work by Virginia Penny

It continues: "From several trappers who had recently returned from the Yellow Stone, I received an account of boiling springs that differ from those seen on Salt River only in magnitude, being on a vastly larger scale; some of their cones are from twenty to thirty feet high, and forty to fifty paces in circumference.
— from The Yellowstone National Park: Historical and Descriptive by Hiram Martin Chittenden

During the absence of the father provincial in Camboja, the province could find no one more suitable to govern it in his place, and accordingly father Fray Juan was nominated as vicar-general.
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898: Volume 31, 1640 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Diego Aduarte