Behold that man, with lanky locks, Which hang in strange confusion o'er his brow; And nicely scan his garments, rent and patch'd, In colours varied, like a pictured map; And watch his restless glance—now grave, now gay— As saddening thought, or merry humour's flash Sweeps o'er the deep-mark'd lines which care hath left; As when the world is steep'd in blackest night, The forked lightning flashes through the sky, And all around leaps into life and light, To sink again in darkness blacker still.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

They were destitute of any temporal force, and they were for a long time discouraged and oppressed, rather than assisted, by the civil magistrate; but they had acquired, and they employed within their own society, the two most efficacious instruments of government, rewards and punishments; the former derived from the pious liberality, the latter from the devout apprehensions, of the faithful.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

And after he found three senators which were alive, to whom he said, For to save your lives I will that ye take these dead bodies, and carry them with you unto great Rome, and present them to the Potestate on my behalf, shewing him my letters, and tell them that I in my person shall hastily be at Rome.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

It may be noted here that Julian when telling how she was given grace to awaken from the former of these troubled dreams, says, "anon all vanished away and I was brought to great rest and peace, without sickness of body or dread of conscience," and that nothing in the book gives any ground for supposing that she had less than ordinary health during the long and peaceful life wherein God "lengthened her patience."
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

The question, therefore, is one of intensity, for each gesture requires a powerful impulse and the more energetic is the one that succeeds in causing the gesture.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

He was not afraid, but remembered what the woman had told him, and plunged his hand to the bottom and drew out a great rattlesnake and put it around his neck for a necklace.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

And as a general rule, all projecting parts have greater beauty when their projection is equal to their height.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

Protocol Nine is full of the most amazing claims, of which these may serve as illustration: "At the present time, if any government raises a protest against us, it is only for the sake of form, it is under our control, and it is done by our direction, for their anti-Semitism is necessary for keeping in order our lesser brothers.
— from The International Jew : The World's Foremost Problem by Anonymous

Did he feel that, while for the others we might be content to imagine after life's fitful fever nothing more than release and silence, we must ask more for one whose 'godlike reason' and passionate love [148] of goodness have only gleamed upon us through the heavy clouds of melancholy, and yet have left us murmuring, as we bow our heads, 'This was the noblest spirit of them all'?
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

A copy of Dickens’ Barnaby Rudge , with a mark at the description of the Lord George Gordon Riots, and pencil marks on the margin.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 14, October 1871-March 1872 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

Call her up here if you can." Verheyden hastily took a seat at the organ, and, as the girl rose and prepared to leave the church, a smooth strain sprang like a lasso from under his fingers, and caught her.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 05, April 1867 to September 1867 by Various

Gibson, Robert A.; paroled at Appomattox.
— from The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson In Which is Told the Part Taken by the Rockbridge Artillery in the Army of Northern Virginia by Edward Alexander Moore

"Yes, my dear," and Grace rose and paced back and forth in deep abstraction.
— from The Right Knock A Story by Helen Van-Anderson

Hamonière published his Grammaire Russe at Paris in 1817; and Gr e tsch (not Gr o tsch) published (in Russian) his excellent grammar at St. Petersburgh about thirty years ago.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 42, August 17, 1850 by Various

cried he; fire flashed from his eyes; he grew red and pale in an instant.
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 06 by Maria Edgeworth

The way is to get ready a plug measured a trifle larger than the aperture you are going to make; then drill a round hole and force in the plug.
— from Foul Play by Dion Boucicault

They generally resemble a pyramid in shape, the base being either circular or square, the apex assuming the form sometimes of a Byzantine roof or that of a spire.
— from Indo-China and Its Primitive People by Henry Baudesson

We others didn't sympathize much with his grief, but got ready another plan for escaping while in town.
— from The Secrets of a Kuttite An Authentic Story of Kut, Adventures in Captivity and Stamboul Intrigue by Edward O. (Edward Opotiki) Mousley

exclaimed Cupid; his round pink cheeks growing rounder and pinker as he stormed on.
— from The Lover's Baedeker and Guide to Arcady by Carolyn Wells