The feudal lord was a genuine representative of a very small part of his vassal's interests.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

This Tarpeian rock was then a savage and solitary thicket: in the time of the poet, it was crowned with the golden roofs of a temple; the temple is overthrown, the gold has been pillaged, the wheel of fortune has accomplished her revolution, and the sacred ground is again disfigured with thorns and brambles.
— 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

What gives good results on an MS-DOS computer, may give rubbish on a Macintosh, Amiga, Atari, or a PC using MS Windows.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

A resolution may go out of a man’s mind either with his will or against his will; with 413 his will when he gets rid of a falsehood and learns better, against his will whenever he is deprived of a truth.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

50 To strive to get rid of an evil is to aim at something definite, but to desire a better fortune than we have is blind folly.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

My Dear Sir: While any American might be proud of associating his name with that of one who has done so much to increase the renown of his country, and to enlarge the sum of human knowledge, this book is dedicated to you as a slight testimonial of regard for your personal character, and in grateful recollection of acts of friendship.
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

A more ingenious mode of getting rid of a goblin was perhaps never invented.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

Her greedy eye glanced rapidly over a page.
— from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

No doubt this great regularity of American morals originates partly in the country, in the race of the people, and in their religion: but all these causes, which operate elsewhere, do not suffice to account for it; recourse must be had to some special reason.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

But the great resource of all is to be found among the later antiquaries and historians.
— from A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant

What will not a woman do to get rid of a rival?
— from The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

I know exactly how terrible the uncertainty must be for her, because if I loved a man that much and lost him I'd probably go right out and kill myself.
— from Mars is My Destination by Frank Belknap Long

Dolly avoided the saloon where the rest of the family were, and betook herself to her own room; to consider and to pray over her difficulties, and also to get rid of a few tears and bring her face into its usual cheerful order.
— from The End of a Coil by Susan Warner

The prince's mother had long been jealous of the assumption of the sultanate by her brother, and, her son being almost imbecile, she hoped, by getting rid of Api, to exercise great power in the state.
— from A History of Sarawak under Its Two White Rajahs 1839-1908 by C. A. Bampfylde

But--I think that the over-all record in this respect is eloquent: The Government of the United States of America--all branches of it--has a good record of achievement in this war.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

Of course they do it very often, I know, and it is more confusing than sending for a woman whom you can pay and get rid of afterwards.
— from Red Rowans by Flora Annie Webster Steel

The early Gnostics claimed that their Science, the Gnosis, rested on a square, the angles of which represented respectively Sigê (Silence), Bythos (Depth), Nous (Spiritual Soul or Mind), and Aletheia (Truth).
— from The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 2 of 4 by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky

On its hearth sits a large iron kettle, spider, and griddle, relics of an earlier day.
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 1 by United States. Work Projects Administration

At all events, if the Government be allowed to carry a bill, it will be to get rid of a troublesome measure and a party together.
— from Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II by Charles James Lever

Nay, the members of a union will declaim in impassioned rhetoric for the God-given right of an eight-hour day, and at the time be working their own business agent seventeen hours out of the twenty-four.
— from War of the Classes by Jack London