Suffice it to remind a people whose saving grace is a love of fair play, that, after the battle of Manila Bay, when Admiral Dewey brought Aguinaldo down from Hong Kong to Cavite, both the Admiral and his Filipino allies were keenly cognizant of the national purpose set forth in the declaration of war against Spain, and that the Filipinos could not have been expected to make any substantial distinction between the casual remarks of a victorious admiral on the quarter-deck of his flagship in May, remarks concurrent and consistent [ 283 ] with actual treatment of the Filipinos as allies, and the imperious commands of a general ashore in December thereafter, acting under specific orders pursuant to the Treaty of Paris.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

M. de la Croix has gone away in despair.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

This “Kirschius” was inherited from my great-grandfather and it did not suffer much damage.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

“Willingly, most willingly shall it be done,” said Gurth, and instantly departed to execute the commission.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

It all belongs to ye, as much as everything else I've got, and I don't wish to keep it from you, not I.” Saying this, he took his gold watch from his pocket and laid it on the table; then his purse—the yellow canvas moneybag, such as was carried by all farmers and dealers—untying it, and shaking the money out upon the table beside the watch.
— from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

So that I am resolved he shall get no more money by me, but it vexes me to think that my father should be said to go away in debt himself, but that I will cause to be remedied whatever comes of it.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

after the Restoration, and that differentiated coronets for the several ranks in the Peerage are not greatly anterior in date, the question becomes distinctly complicated.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

I did not think for a moment of lowering myself down, as I wished to know where I was going, and I did not recognize our surroundings.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Wert thou as young as I, Juliet thy love, An hour but married, Tybalt murdered, Doting like me, and like me banished, Then mightst thou speak, then mightst thou tear thy hair, And fall upon the ground as I do now, Taking the measure of an unmade grave.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

“That’s exactly what I haven’t got, and I don’t expect any either.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

In several closely allied genera, as in Dielytra , there are two perfect nectaries; the pistil is straight, and the hood slips off on either side, according as the bee sucks either nectary."
— from Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Maxwell T. (Maxwell Tylden) Masters

The streets in the City of London I found crowded with people hurrying to and fro, running in bands and companies, shouting and crying, as if in the presence of some great and imminent danger.
— from For Faith and Freedom by Walter Besant

He ought to fall down and kiss the dust of my shoes for such a gift, and I doubt me much if he will ever think to do it.
— from Agnes of Sorrento by Harriet Beecher Stowe

"Papa, I will try; I am sorry for my sins against God, and I do want to belong to him.
— from Grandmother Elsie by Martha Finley

249 “We must travel night and day,” said Guy, “and in darkness.
— from The River of Darkness; Or, Under Africa by William Murray Graydon

If you take a fish out of water and bring it up into the upper air, it writhes and gasps, and is dead presently; and our evil tendencies and sins, drawn up out of the muddy depths in which they live, and brought up into that pure atmosphere of communion with Jesus Christ, are sure to shrivel and to die, and to disappear.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John by Alexander Maclaren

Gaddingham and I did not, of course, stand to watch him; but, having occasion to pass the pagoda during the afternoon, I happened upon Sploshington himself, standing in the middle of the road, poising his head this way and that, and quite obviously lost in admiration of ten six-inch gilt letters, five on each column.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 3, 1914 by Various

But, as time goes on, the practice of carrying the act only to the end of the second part, will grow, and in due time be well established.
— from Sane Sex Life and Sane Sex Living Some Things That All Sane People Ought to Know About Sex Nature and Sex Functioning; Its Place in the Economy of Life, Its Proper Training and Righteous Exercise by H. W. (Harland William) Long