Such a timocracy (of which the Roman Church is a good example) would differ from the social aristocracy that now exists only by the removal of hereditary advantages.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

But such quarrels generally ended where domestic altercations do, in reconciliation, and in a mutual respect for the fighting qualities proportionate to their manifestation.
— from Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker

To-day the village girls had brought to the altar of the Virgin Mother the first tribute of spring—fresh sheaves of greenery; everything was decked with nosegays and garlands—the altar, the image, and even the belfry and the galleries.
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

'Her house is sack'd, her quiet interrupted, Her mansion batter'd by the enemy; Her sacred temple spotted, spoil'd, corrupted, Grossly engirt with daring infamy: Then let it not be call'd impiety, If in this blemish'd fort I make some hole Through which I may convey this troubled soul.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Great chains of gold each warder deck, Gleaming like fire beneath his neck.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

But her affectionate nature was so happy in what I now said to her with my whole heart, that her face became a laughing one before her glittering eyes were dry.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

That the Parliament, after all this, is likely to give the King no money; and, therefore, that it is to be wondered what makes the King give way to so great extravagancies, which do all tend to the making him less than he is, and so will, every day more and more: and by this means every creature is divided against the other, that there never was so great an uncertainty in England, of what would, be the event of things, as at this day; nobody being at ease, or safe.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Gamle Eirikson was drowned; but the other sons of Eirik reached their ships, and set sail with what men remained.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

Albrecht too is among the prisoners, the famous German "expert," who designs their works for them and manages their artillery; and we have taken 4000 prisoners, and several guns and one detested "pompon."
— from With Rimington by L. March (Lisle March) Phillipps

“Yes, gray eyes with dark lashes.
— from A Country Sweetheart by Dora Russell

In 1800, a resolution in favor of gradual emancipation was defeated.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll

Thousands of good English women died in the terrible bombings, but the others never faltered.”
— from Sally Scott of the WAVES by Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell

“Your honor,” said an old man, “graciously listen to us, as the good emperor would do, who always wishes
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 17, April, 1873 to September, 1873 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

Stanley!" "A light on Marmion's visage spread, And fired his glazing eye: With dying hand, above his head, He shook the fragment of his blade, And shouted 'Victory!
— from The Prose Marmion A Tale of the Scottish Border by Sara Davis Jenkins

The Sixth Corps, under General Wright, moved by way of Charlestown and Summit Point to Clifton; General Emory, with Dwight's division of the Nineteenth Corps, marched along the Berryville pike through Berryville to the left of the position of the Sixth Corps at Clifton; General Crook's command, moving on the Kabletown road, passed through Kabletown to the vicinity of Berryville, and went into position on the left of Dwight's division, while Colonel Lowell, with a detached force of two small regiments of cavalry, marched to Summit Point; so that on the night of August 10 my infantry occupied a line stretching from Clifton to Berryville, with Merritt's cavalry at White Post and Lowell's at Summit Point.
— from Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, Volume 1, Part 3 by Philip Henry Sheridan

Before we follow Jeremiah himself through the rest of that malignant and disastrous reign, during which the steadfastness that his personality had achieved was again to be shaken, we must [pg 175] understand the progress of the great events which directed his own conduct and gradually determined the fate of his people.
— from Jeremiah : Being The Baird Lecture for 1922 by George Adam Smith