It was necessary that a servant should sleep in the same room, to be on hand if the child stirred.
— from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) Jacobs

No right have I to claim, misplaced, The welcome of expected guest.
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

And all the senators would there have perished at the hands of the inrushing mob, had not some persons at this juncture reported that the Volsci had invaded the country.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

But granting that the conqueror in a just war has a right to the estates, as well as power over the persons, of the conquered; which, it is plain, he hath not: nothing of absolute power will follow from hence, in the continuance of the government; because the descendants of these being all freemen, if he grants them estates and possessions to inhabit his country, (without which it would be worth nothing)
— from Second Treatise of Government by John Locke

Sanudo says that in going into action every vessel should make the greatest possible display of colours; gonfalons and broad banners should float from stem to stern, and gay pennons all along the bulwarks; whilst it was impossible to have too much of noisy music, of pipes, trumpets, kettle-drums, and what not, to put heart into the crew and strike fear into the enemy.[24] So Joinville, in a glorious passage, describes the galley of his kinsman, the Count of Jaffa, at the landing of St. Lewis in Egypt:— "That galley made the most gallant figure of them all, for it was painted all over, above water and below, with scutcheons of the count's arms, the field of which was or with a cross patée gules .[25]
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Once, at the Olympic games, when the herald proclaimed, “Dioxippus is the conqueror of men;” he said, “He is the conqueror of slaves, I am the conqueror of men.”
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

Here in the church, "before" and "after" were folded together, all was contained in oneness.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Did you never hear tell of the skulls they have in the city of Dublin, ranged out like blue jugs in a cabin of Connaught? PHILLY.
— from The Playboy of the Western World: A Comedy in Three Acts by J. M. (John Millington) Synge

Man imagines the world itself to be overflowing with beauty,—he forgets that he is the cause of it all.
— from The Twilight of the Idols; or, How to Philosophize with the Hammer. The Antichrist Complete Works, Volume Sixteen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Finding himself in this case and being grown not only poor, but beggarly, he betook himself, as least ill he might, to Rome, to essay if Titus should remember him.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

The Supply armed tender, after having been under repair from the time she returned from Norfolk-Island, was found, on a survey, to be in so bad a state, that the best repair which could be given her in this country, would only render her serviceable for six months longer; Governor Phillip, therefore, ordered her to England, and she sailed on the 26th of November.
— from An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island by John Hunter

CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN Wentz, hovering in the corridor of the Tombstone jail, had overheard the conversation between the jailer and Glendon.
— from The Long Dim Trail by Forrestine C. (Forrestine Cooper) Hooker

Marsh now seated himself in the chair he had occupied on the occasion of his previous visit, and Morgan and Tierney took chairs on the opposite side of the fireplace.
— from The Sheridan Road Mystery by Paul Thorne

"Then," continued Noll, with a quivering voice, "she bent her face over me and the tears in her eyes ran over on to my cheeks, and she said,— "'Oh, my little Noll, if mamma could feel sure that you were ready to come after her into that city, she would never cry or mourn again!'
— from Culm Rock The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught by Glance Gaylord

In 1246 there was held in this church a Fête Dieu following upon a vision of Ste.
— from The Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

The Franks aided Harald in this contest, and Ragnar was defeated.
— from The Boys' Book of Famous Rulers by Lydia Hoyt Farmer

We are not to think that the pleasure we have in being of substantial service to a friend, we cannot have in the case of that which is most substantial.
— from How to become like Christ by Marcus Dods

[Pg 183] than the rest, who had hurried off on their bicycles to hand in their copy, did try to interview me, and I wished I had been in a position to give him the information for his paper that he asked for.
— from Upsidonia by Archibald Marshall

Fifteen minutes later the only occupant of the parlor was the dog Jerry, who lay, with alert head, in the centre of a large "Turkish chair.
— from Romance of California Life Illustrated by Pacific Slope Stories, Thrilling, Pathetic and Humorous by John Habberton

Coningsby remained for a moment stupefied; then suddenly turning back, he bounded downstairs and hurried into the cloak-room.
— from Coningsby; Or, The New Generation by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield