A difference of one vote destroys equality; a single opponent destroys unanimity; but between equality and unanimity, there are several grades of unequal division, at each of which this proportion may be fixed in accordance with the condition and the needs of the body politic.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The woman gave a groan of utter despair, and sat down on a board.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

The two are distinct and separate works of grace, obtained upon distinct and separate conditions.
— from Sanctification by J. W. Byers

[Pg 170] Lazzaroni;—their property at all times on their backs, and residences precarious; they are playing monté on a coarse blanket or serapa laid upon the ground; one accuses another of cheating, and at the same time twits him with the most deadly insult a Spaniard can offer, possibly because it is so near the truth: tu eres cornudo ; true or false, his antagonist calls on all the saints to bear witness to his innocence, springs to his feet, twists a serapa around the left arm, and, before one can say Jack Robinson, their keen blades are playing in quick, rapid passes, seldom giving over until deep and sometimes fatal stabs are interchanged; but if not seriously hurt they drink a cup of aguadiente together, light cigarillos, and continue the game until another quarrel arises.
— from Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia by H. A. (Henry Augustus) Wise

Here is that height of all love's eminence Where man may breathe but for a breathing‑space And feel his soul burn as an altar‑fire To the unknown God of unachieved desire, And from the middle mystery of the place Watch lights that break, hear sounds as of a quire, But see not twice unveiled the veiled God's face.
— from Poems & Ballads (Second Series) Swinburne's Poems Volume III by Algernon Charles Swinburne

"She is—or will be within a week—the Grand Duchess of Ruvania." "Go on," urged Diana, as the other paused.
— from The Splendid Folly by Margaret Pedler

We saw and heard it going on until daylight, as we lay in our cots; and as the work of destruction proceeded, I cannot describe to you the appalling effect it had on me.
— from The Story of Napoleon by Harold Wheeler

1. That “there is but one God, one undivided Deity, and one Mediator between God and man—the man Christ Jesus.” 2.
— from The Religious Life of London by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie

When the time came for him to go into the ring, and he met Ella, bright and happy at the thought of riding with him, and repeating her triumphs of the afternoon, nothing save the thought of how wicked he had been to run away from good old Uncle Daniel, and a desire to right that wrong in some way, prevented him from giving up his plan of going back.
— from Harper's Young People, April 5, 1881 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

I call this place Whitman Land, because in many ways it is typical of my poet,—an amphitheatre of precipitous rock, slightly veiled with a delicate growth of verdure, enclosing a few acres of prairie-like land, once the site of an ancient lake, now a garden of unknown depth and fertility.
— from Whitman: A Study by John Burroughs

ALL MEMBERS BRITISH BAHÁ’Í COMMUNITY ALREADY FULLY AROUSED ACTION HIGHLY CONSCIOUS GLORIOUS OPPORTUNITY UNFLINCHINGLY DETERMINED ATTAIN GOAL SHOULD BE UNWAVERINGLY FOCUSSED ENERGIES MUSTERED
— from The Unfolding Destiny of the British Bahá'í Community : the Messages from the Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith to the Bahá'ís of the British Isles by Effendi Shoghi

Is this placing of twenty millions on the clear ground of unselfish duty, as life's motive, nothing?
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various