In those days France paid the subsidies of Europe; but Colbert's plans and hopes for France rested upon making her powerful on the sea.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

A sudden flush rose under M. Riviere's sallow skin.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

It was the homely common sense of Mr. Lincoln that first reminded us most vividly how like to the sins of an individual are those of a nation.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

I heard a short, sharp cry behind me, a fall, and turning saw an awful face rushing upon me,—not human, not animal, but hellish, brown, seamed with red branching scars, red drops starting out upon it, and the lidless eyes ablaze.
— from The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

We had clasped each other's hands; some delightful force rendered us motionless, an unknown force stronger than ourselves, an alliance, chaste, intimate, absolute, of our beings lying there side by side, belonging to each other without contact.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

However that be, the same Noise so frequently repeated under my Window, drew me insensibly to think on some of those Inconveniences and Mortifications which usually attend on Poverty, and in short, gave Birth to the present Speculation: For after my Fancy had run over the most obvious and common Calamities which Men of mean Fortunes are liable to, it descended to those little Insults and Contempts, which though they may seem to dwindle into nothing when a Man offers to describe them, are perhaps in themselves more cutting and insupportable than the former.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

A little intimate connection with this excellent girl, and a few reflections upon my situation, made me discover that, while thinking of nothing more than my pleasures, I had done a great deal towards my happiness.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

As, on the boiling of the rice, the froth rising up makes the surface quiet, but the rice within is agitated; so am I now.
— from Nil Darpan; or, The Indigo Planting Mirror, A Drama. Translated from the Bengali by a Native. by Dinabandhu Mitra

After watching them enjoy this luxury for a while I finally rushed up myself and asked the woman in charge if she would sell me a cup of coffee.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

In referring to the Washington Commonwealth Federation he said: It was our estimate that it was capable— by “our” he is referring to the Communist Party— that it was capable of influencing and obtaining the vote of one-third of the members who voted in the Democratic Party slate or side of the ticket and because of that fact and because we were in a higher state of mobilization than the rest of the Democratic Party when primaries came along we could exercise a more direct influence in the primaries than anybody else because our members in the Washington Commonwealth Federation had a great zeal and a greater devotion to carrying out their objectives than the other Democrats who frequently relied upon making their decisions in the general election.
— from Investigation of Communist activities in Seattle, Wash., area. Hearings, Part 3 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities

Fancy if now my sole title to fame rested upon my reputation as a dramatic critic!—terrible thought!"
— from Tales From Jókai by Mór Jókai

The act was not formally repealed until March 18, 1766.
— from An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America by J. P. (John Patterson) MacLean

Hence we ought to go through life with our faces naked, since such faces render untruthfulness more difficult, and prevent their owners from prevaricating without the fact becoming plain to all." "But what about women?" "What about women?
— from Through Russia by Maksim Gorky

Archie sat on his knees in the midst of the group, and, while his teeth were busy upon a sandwich, his eyes wandered from one to another of the Rancheros, and finally rested upon Mr. Mercedes, whose actions instantly riveted his attention.
— from Frank among the Rancheros by Harry Castlemon

"Adelheid was very grateful for what I had done, and as she had now learned to place full reliance upon me, she insisted that I should be the bearer of a letter from her to the Emperor Otto.
— from The Vizier of the Two-Horned Alexander by Frank Richard Stockton

Till some rude lover breaks the mound, And takes me to his breast; Here soon I sicken and decay, My beauty lost, I'm turn'd away, And thrown upon the street; 82 Where I despis'd and rolling lie, See no Samaritan pass by, But num'rous insults meet:— Ladies, contemplate well my fate, Reflect upon my wretched state; Implore th' Almighty's aid, Lest you (which Heav'n avert) like me Shou'd come to want and misery, Be ruin'd and betray'd.
— from Food for the Mind: Or, A New Riddle-book by John-the-Giant-Killer

These kinds, belonging to a much warmer region, soon, as I noticed, underwent considerable modification in our cooler climate, and were all of them adjudged distinct species by the learned gentlemen who finally reported upon my island realm to British science.
— from Science in Arcady by Grant Allen