But this vulgarity of being ashamed of one's society is much more common among men than women (except very great ladies of fashion, who, to be sure, indulge in it); and Mrs. Amelia, a natural and unaffected person, had none of that artificial shamefacedness which her husband mistook for delicacy on his own part.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

The augmentation which commemorates this is a shield bearing the cross of St. George and in the centre a smaller shield with the golden lilies of France.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

It was so artistically done, and with so much fertility and gorgeous luxuriance of fancy, that it had all the effect of a last and fitting decoration to the apparel which she wore; and which was of a splendor in accordance with the taste of the age, but greatly beyond what was allowed by the sumptuary regulations of the colony.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Thus infamy comes through too great love of fame, and pain comes from love of pleasure, and plenty of work to the idle, and to the contentious defeats and losses of lawsuits.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

If within the limits of practical possibility one were to list the hypothetical requirements for an end of the Cold War, the following might stand forth: (1) General war leading to destruction of either the Communist or non-Communist systems; or (2) Prolongation of the present Cold War atmosphere until new and more interesting quarrels arise which make the present ones obsolete; or (3) Reconciliation of the Communist and anti-Communist systems, by some process not now imaginable, along the general lines of Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Grand Design;" or (4) Collapse of all major civilizations under impact of fissionable and thermonuclear weapons; or (5) Gradual erosion of the anti-Communist world and an eventual Communist victory by sustained Communist successes short of war—or the alternative of gradual erosion of the Communist world and the creation of a constitutionalist and libertarian probability of victory, also without the outbreak of general war.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

"The Grand Lodge of Florida adopted such a provision in her constitution, [the qualifying clause permitting the initiation of a maimed person, if his deformity was not such as to prevent his instruction], but more mature reflection, and more light reflected from our sister Grand Lodges, caused it to be stricken from our constitution.
— from The Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Landmarks of Freemasonry by Albert Gallatin Mackey

For example, if a Soveraign Monarch, or a Soveraign Assembly, shall think fit to give command to the towns, and other severall parts of their territory, to send to him their Deputies, to enforme him of the condition, and necessities of the Subjects, or to advise with him for the making of good Lawes, or for any other cause, as with one Person representing the whole Country, such Deputies, having a place and time of meeting assigned them, are there, and at that time, a Body Politique, representing every Subject of that Dominion; but it is onely for such matters as shall be propounded unto them by that Man, or Assembly, that by the Soveraign Authority sent for them; and when it shall be declared that nothing more shall be propounded, nor debated by them, the Body is dissolved.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

393 Grand Lodge of England appears to have been reassured by this proclamation as to the character of French Freemasonry, for now, in 1743, it at last delivered a warrant to Grand Lodge of France.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

549 So much for Weishaupt's respect for the Grand Legend of Freemasonry!
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

North of the Bastile, beyond the main prison structure, but included in the general line of fortifications, was the Bastion, used as a terrace and exercising ground for privileged prisoners.
— from Early French Prisons Le Grand and Le Petit Châtelets; Vincennes; The Bastile; Loches; The Galleys; Revolutionary Prisons by Arthur Griffiths

—Chief-Justice Marshall ; General Lafayette , of France, Hon.
— from History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens by George Washington Williams

But [Pg 208] I had been formerly a great lover of fish, and when it came out of the frying-pan, it smelt admirably well.
— from The Printer Boy. Or How Benjamin Franklin Made His Mark. An Example for Youth. by William Makepeace Thayer

He was a great lover of flowers, and indeed had a sense of the beautiful quite out of keeping with the colour of his coat.
— from In Kedar's Tents by Henry Seton Merriman

Not only must the growth be removed, but the roots must be cut out, and the inequalities of the ground levelled or filled up.
— from The Blazed Trail by Stewart Edward White

In spite of the fact that a well-fed, well-clothed and well-educated people, like the Germans, for instance, will bear an autocratic government, which kindly [90] does everything for them, but gives little opportunity for individual initiative; it cannot be compared, in its salutary effect upon its citizens, with one which calls forth the powers of judgment and decision in every one, and feeds self-respect, discouraging toadyism and caste, like a republic.
— from Teaching the Child Patriotism by Kate Upson Clark

It may be thought that the very statement of it may lead to greater laxity of faith and morals.
— from Love's Final Victory Ultimate Universal Salvation on the Basis of Scripture and Reason by Horatio

“Well, well,” he muttered as he stood near the big gates like one frozen to the cobbles, “what in the world es the maanin’ of thes?”
— from Wild Life at the Land's End Observations of the Habits and Haunts of the Fox, Badger, Otter, Seal, Hare and of Their Pursuers in Cornwall by J. C. (John Coulson) Tregarthen

What is said in the Observations harmonized with the constitutions of every State in the Confederation and with the Virginia resolutions and with the views of every member [Pg 93] of the Convention excepting the five great land owners from South Carolina.
— from The Mystery of the Pinckney Draught by Charles C. Nott

You will find plenty of Irish girls, looking out for husbands, who will give you a warm reception.”
— from Japhet in Search of a Father by Frederick Marryat