Lykurgus abolished all the mass of pride, envy, crime, and luxury which flowed from those old and more terrible evils of riches and poverty, by inducing all land-owners to offer their estates for redistribution, and prevailing upon them to live on equal terms one with another, and with equal incomes, striving only to surpass each other in courage and virtue, there being henceforth no social inequalities among them except such as praise or blame can create.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

In this he encountered violent opposition, and it seems that Jews were not permitted to return in large numbers, or at any rate to enjoy full rights and privileges, until after the accession of Charles II, who in his turn had enlisted their financial aid.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

The ancient republics, being mostly grounded from the first upon some kind of mutual compact, or at any rate formed by an union of persons not very unequal in strength, afforded, in consequence, the first instance of a portion of human relations fenced round, and placed under the dominion of another law than
— from The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill

A cosa de las cinco, mi batallón fué rudamente acometido por una fuerza de alaveses [18-1] que mandaba Ramón.... ¡Ramón llevaba ya las insignias de Comandante y la boina blanca de carlista
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

"Her money saved us from ruin, and put us on our feet.
— from A Fair Mystery: The Story of a Coquette by Charlotte M. Brame

Get out your fiddle, Rose, and play us a jig.
— from The Torch Bearer: A Camp Fire Girls' Story by I. T. (Ida Treadwell) Thurston

Year after year the captain laid up for repairs, and put up with Mrs. Simmons.
— from Romance of California Life Illustrated by Pacific Slope Stories, Thrilling, Pathetic and Humorous by John Habberton

"In times when every man went armed, when feuds were of hourly occurrence in the streets, when the age had not yet learned the true superiority of right over might, and when private revenge too often usurped the functions of justice, it was essential that there should be places whither the homicide might flee, and find refuge and protection until the violence of angry passions had subsided, and there was a chance of a fair trial for him."
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 374, December, 1846 by Various

And her strong hot nature kindled, as she dwelled upon these things; and my wrath waxed within me; and we forgot reserve and prudence under the sense of so vile a wrong.
— from Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

All that is required in making use of it is to plant the camera perfectly upright, and place in front of it, at exactly fifteen feet from the center of the lens, a two foot rule, also perfectly upright and with its center the same height from the floor as the lens, and then, after focusing accurately with as large a diaphragm as will give sharpness, to note the size of the image and refer it to the diagram.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 by Various

If a person should burst—" Colonel Ferrers rose, and paced up and down the path, going a few steps each way, and glancing frequently at the boy from under his bushy eyebrows.
— from Hildegarde's Home by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

During this period, also, Mabberly applied himself to his duties in London, unaffected by the loss of the Fairy , and profoundly interested in the success of his friend Barret, who had devoted himself heart and head to natural history, with a view to making that science his profession, though his having been left a competence by his father rendered a profession unnecessary, from a financial point of view.
— from The Eagle Cliff by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne