They revile it, and it goes off uttering shrill cries.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

We determined therefore to go on unless stopped by a force sufficient to compel obedience.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

What on earth made you go out upon such a night?" "I am tired, and want to go to bed—don't bother me.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

When this was talked of in Dr. Johnson's company, he said, "Of all men Goldsmith is the most unfit to go out upon such an inquiry; for he is utterly ignorant of such arts as we already possess, and consequently could not know what would be accessions to our present stock of mechanical knowledge.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

Huge glades opened up, seemingly cleared by the hand of man, and I sometimes wondered whether some residents of these underwater regions would suddenly appear before me.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

That is to say, among the reactions of the body in general occur upon stimulation of the eye by light, all except those which are specifically adapted to reaching, grasping, and manipulating the object effectively are gradually eliminated—or else no training occurs.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

Par exemple, les gestes ont un sens, les mouvements faciaux ont un sens, et ceci varie en fonction des sociétés.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

His garret, or upper story, is empty, or unfurnished; i.e. he has no brains, he is a fool.
— from 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

SYN: Grudge, offence, umbrage, spite, {resentment (slight)}, wounded pride, [See GRUDGE].
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Occasionally the children came with me; when they did so, they would stand some way off and keep guard over us, so as to tell me if anybody came near.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It was not long after I got well before I started on the campaign of 1864, under the generalship of U. S. Grant.
— from The Empty Sleeve or, The Life and Hardships of Henry H. Meacham, in the Union Army by Henry H. Meacham

At Tshikapa you hear good old United States spoken with every dialectic flavour from New England hardness to Texas drawl.
— from An African Adventure by Isaac Frederick Marcosson

There is an Irish group and a Cornish group of underground structures, but they do not generally present the special features of form which characterise the Scottish group.
— from Scotland in Pagan Times; The Iron Age by Joseph Anderson

The noontide fades, and the evening grey Overtakes us soon on our weary way; But our day of working will soon be o'er, And the rest is nearer us than before.
— from Lays from the West by M. A. Nicholl

The immediate purpose of taxation is to raise money for the needs of the government; but in the formulation of tax measures there is clearly to be discerned a growth of underlying sentiment that natural resources belong in some fashion to the public, and that private control is to be regarded not as a sacred property right but as a trust held on sufferance of the public.
— from The Economic Aspect of Geology by C. K. (Charles Kenneth) Leith

But, despite this papal ordinance, the festival did not become one of general observance until, some generations later, there had grown around the 197 purely religious part of it a mass of painfully secular tomfoolery, which turned the fête into a great saturnalia.
— from In the Track of R. L. Stevenson and Elsewhere in Old France by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir

He will not think the Revolution complete, or the constitution of his country a good one, until some Napoleon, or some Louis, writes himself an Emperor or King of France, by the grace of Sieyes.
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various

Whence did we derive a power to purchase Louisiana, and incorporate it with the good old United States?
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 4 (of 16) by United States. Congress