The awe, however, which his humiliation and peril had been intended to diffuse gradually wore off; the keen interest which was awakened by the ministerial changes at the beginning of the reign of George III., which have been already mentioned, naturally prompted a variety of efforts to gratify it by a revelation of the language concerning them which was held by statesmen of different parties; and these revelations were no longer confined to yearly or monthly publications.
— from The Constitutional History of England from 1760 to 1860 by Charles Duke Yonge

A Study of the Times and Labors of William Harvey [9] History in general is but a record of the succession of great events or epochs which have moulded the world's affairs.
— from The Evil Eye, Thanatology, and Other Essays by Roswell Park

The Huguenots found themselves girt in by a ring of foes.
— from History of the English People, Volume IV by John Richard Green

On one of these occasions, after passing through a thick grove, I beheld a river of some width dashing along the glen, and chafing so as to produce the noise of a mighty waterfall.
— from The Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans 1814-1815 by G. R. (George Robert) Gleig

[58] the music, a pretty little laugh, as much as to say, "Can't you read my real feelings under my mask of banter," a tender glance indicated by a retard on a charmingly expressive little turn of the melody—and she is in his arms.
— from The Pianolist: A Guide for Pianola Players by Gustav Kobbé

Another one, entitled New Model-buch , printed by G. Strauben, 1593, at St. Gall, is but a reprint of the third book of Vecellio's Corona .
— from History of Lace by Palliser, Bury, Mrs.

The galleries in both are ranged over each other on three sides of the building.
— from The Town: Its Memorable Characters and Events by Leigh Hunt

So I prayed to the Mother of Heaven and kept the lead busy, and always found deep water: and more by God's guidance than our management we missed the Desertas, where a tall bare rock sprang out of the fog so close on our larboard quarter that the men cried out it was a giant in black armour rising out of the waves.
— from The Laird's Luck and Other Fireside Tales by Arthur Quiller-Couch

The popularity of the god is but a reflection of the delight that the Assyrians took [Pg 212] in military pursuits.
— from The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Morris Jastrow

,” cried Nancy, greatly incensed by a remark of such low breeding, “remember that you are here among gentlemen, who do not fight with cudgels and fists for the favours of ladies.”
— from The Chaplain of the Fleet by James Rice