Victor Hugo met her remonstrances with gentle reasoning and persuasive exhortations.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

George roused a primal emotion—an elemental dislike that was deeper than reason—an antagonism intensely physical, almost overpowering—a purely adrenal response that had no business in the make-up of a civilized human.
— from The Lani People by Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) Bone

And," sez she, a-lookin' sort o' reproachful at me, "I should have thought you would have felt like goin' round and payin' 'em all a visit, on both of your sides, before you went," sez she.
— from Samantha at the World's Fair by Marietta Holley

[78] In short, during the life of Jesus, Judea was passing through a period of great religious and political excitement.
— from The Trial of Jesus from a Lawyer's Standpoint, Vol. 2 (of 2) The Roman Trial by Walter M. (Walter Marion) Chandler

but mediocrities will stand still, or very nearly so; but a race of mediocrities with a good supply of men of exceptional ability and energy at the top, will make progress in discovery, invention and organization, which is generally recognized as progressive evolution.
— from Applied Eugenics by Roswell H. (Roswell Hill) Johnson

That Empedocles tried to exhibit this superiority, and to heighten its effect by gorgeous raiment and profuse expenditure, by public ceremonies and mysterious modes of life, we need not doubt.
— from Studies of the Greek Poets (Vol 1 of 2) by John Addington Symonds

The army was immediately greatly reduced, and public expenditures so diminished as materially to lighten the weight of taxation.
— from Henry IV, Makers of History by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

Berault's motto as regards the teaching of French was omne tulit punctum qui miscuit utile dulci ,—a fit combination of grammar rules and practical exercises.
— from The Teaching and Cultivation of the French Language in England during Tudor and Stuart Times With an Introductory Chapter on the Preceding Period by K. Rebillon (Kathleen Rebillon) Lambley

For that reason she was not treated as a portion of a united kingdom, but as an enemy who had become England's slave by conquest, who was her rival in manufactures of various kinds, who might undersell her in foreign markets, and, in fact, who might grow rich and powerful enough to assert her independence.
— from The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines by O'Rourke, John, Canon

That same paragraph, the last sentence in this paragraph reads, “Bieberdorf states that he gave Ruby a physical examination at this time in order to insure Ruby had not concealed any weapon on his person.”
— from Warren Commission (13 of 26): Hearings Vol. XIII (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

Sometimes it happened that the king came to see them, and he smiled as he glanced at the man, who was getting rosier and plumper each day.
— from The Lilac Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

Those who love to contend against the fatal drift of our age toward over-education could find in Alice Tarleton, foster daughter of Gaspard Roussillon, a primitive example, an elementary case in point.
— from Alice of Old Vincennes by Maurice Thompson