[1] This should of course be understood as applying to a free State; for elsewhere family, goods, lack of a refuge, necessity, or violence may detain a man in a country against his will; and then his dwelling there no longer by itself implies his consent to the contract or to its violation.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

My paper and envelopes all gone, but distributed a good lot of amusing reading matter; also, as I thought judicious, tobacco, oranges, apples, &c. Interesting cases in ward I; Charles Miller, bed 19, company D, 53d Pennsylvania, is only 16 years of age, very bright, courageous boy, left leg amputated below the knee; next bed to him, another young lad very sick; gave each appropriate gifts.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

There were naturally things that in Flora’s presence could pass between us only as prodigious and gratified looks, obscure and roundabout allusions.
— from The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

But to Ephesus, that other great luminary of Asia, resort the more distant peoples known as the 472 Cæsarienses 4068 , the Metropolitæ 4069 , the Cilbiani 4070 , both the Lower and Upper, the Mysomacedones 4071 , the Mastaurenses 4072 , the Briulitæ 4073 , the Hypæpeni 4074 , and the Dioshïeritæ 4075 .
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

And in the nights of winter, When the cold north winds blow, And the long howling of the wolves Is heard amidst the snow; When round the lonely cottage Roars loud the tempest's din, And the good logs of Algidus Roar louder yet within; LXIX When the oldest cask is opened, And the largest lamp is lit; When the chestnuts glow in the embers, And the kid turns on the spit; When young and old in circle Around the firebrands close; When the girls are weaving baskets, And the lads are shaping bows; LXX When the goodman mends his armor, And trims his helmet's plume; When the goodwife's shuttle merrily Goes flashing through the loom; With weeping and with laughter Still is the story told, How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old.
— from Lays of Ancient Rome by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

So will the Lord of Cooling Rays 286 On whom the world delights to gaze, Through the great love of all retain Sweet splendour in the time of wane.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

They also drove before them many of the inhabitants, including women and girls, leaving only a remnant of the former populations, mostly old and feeble folk and children, these being left destitute and without food even for a day.
— from America's War for Humanity by Thomas Herbert Russell

His descendants, the Greens, lived on at Rosedale until not so very many years ago.
— from A Portrait of Old George Town by Grace Dunlop Peter

The Nixie sat on a rock, in the green light of a river-bed.
— from The Nest Builder: A Novel by Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale

CHAPTER XXX A SUMMER STORM, AND LOVE The foregoing conversations with Ottilia and her teacher, hard as they were for passion to digest, grew luminous on a relapsing heart.
— from The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Volume 4 by George Meredith

If you throw a green light on a red light.... [ Sudden silence .
— from Magic A Fantastic Comedy by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Sink or swim, the sheep were in the water, and for a minute there was a tense silence along the river; then, as the goats lined out, a rifle shot echoed from the cliffs and a white column of water rose up before the leader.
— from Hidden Water by Dane Coolidge