Not only shops and bazaars, fairs and markets, games and sports, cluster around it, but also curiosities and works of popular art, the relics of war, and the trophies of travel and adventure.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

As the seats cleared, by parties going away, Sir Clement approached nearer to us.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

She was now left a good deal to herself, to get acquainted with the house and grounds as she could, and spent her days very happily in so doing, while those who might otherwise have attended to her were shut up, or wholly occupied each with the person quite dependent on them, at this time, for everything like comfort; Edmund trying to bury his own feelings in exertions for the relief of his brother's, and Fanny devoted to her aunt Bertram, returning to every former office with more than former zeal, and thinking she could never do enough for one who seemed so much to want her.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

And so he went on riding with her, and copying music and verses into her albums, and playing at chess with her very submissively; for it is with these simple amusements that some officers in India are accustomed to while away their leisure moments, while others of a less domestic turn hunt hogs, and shoot snipes, or gamble and smoke cheroots, and betake themselves to brandy-and-water.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque or Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

For the disasters which befell the Athenians in relation to Sicily, 83 though in regard to the number of those who perished they brought no less misfortune to the city, yet, because their army was destroyed far away from their own land, being composed for the most part rather of auxiliary troops than of native Athenians, and because their city itself was left to them intact, so that afterwards they held their own in war even for a long time, though fighting against the Lacedaemonians and their allies, as well as the Great King; these disasters, I say, neither produced in the persons who were themselves involved in the calamity an equal sensation of the misfortune, nor did they cause the other Greeks a similar consternation at the catastrophe.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

Rubens served as ambassador, and Goethe as state councillor, and Milton as Latin secretary to Cromwell.
— from Intentions by Oscar Wilde

Above Temptation, in a low Estate, And uncorrupted, ev'n among the Great: A safe Companion, and an easy Friend, Unblam'd thro' Life, lamented in thy End.
— from The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Alexander Pope

Now, the danger to each of these great and splendid civilizations arises far more from the fear that each feels than from the fear that each inspires.
— from America and the World War by Theodore Roosevelt

The penny jingled out, the coin which was to procure her bread in Greenanore, and she clutched at it hurriedly.
— from The Rat-Pit by Patrick MacGill

Thus, at 4.4° Glauber's salt and potassium chloride form glaserite and sodium chloride, according to the equation 2Na 2 SO 4 ,10H 2 O + 3KCl = K 3 Na(SO 4 ) 2 + 3NaCl + 20H 2 O Above the transition point, therefore, there would be K 3 Na(SO 4 ) 2 , NaCl and KCl; and it may be considered that at a higher temperature the double salt would interact with the potassium chloride according to the equation K 3 Na(SO 4 ) 2 + KCl = 2K 2 SO 4 + NaCl thus giving the reciprocal of the original salt-pair.
— from The Phase Rule and Its Applications by Alexander Findlay

Never was so gross and so cruel a breach of the public faith, not with an enemy, but with a friend.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

They are each provided with a long iron-pointed stick, and a small pick-axe; a leathern bag, filled with meal, is suspended from the girdle, and some carry at their backs great tea-kettles, for the Faculty spend the entire day on the mountain.
— from Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 2 by Evariste Régis Huc

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— from The Dreadnought Boys in Home Waters by John Henry Goldfrap