The mere fact that the Americans knew enough about Japan to celebrate a homey Japanese holiday was probably enough to make the Japanese reader examine the leaflet carefully.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

But gradually a number of other American settlers flowed into Canada from the United States, who had no claim to the title of tories or loyalists, but who in their feelings and habits were probably not much more republican than their predecessors.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

There was, then, noble ladies, in Imola, a man of wicked and corrupt life, who was called Berto della Massa and whose lewd fashions, being well known of the Imolese, had brought him into such ill savour with them that there was none in the town who would credit him, even when he said sooth; wherefore, seeing that his shifts might no longer stand him in stead there, he removed in desperation to Venice, the receptacle of every kind of trash, thinking to find there new means of carrying on his wicked practices.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

A person who has at command both types of thinking is of a higher order than he who possesses only one.
— from How We Think by John Dewey

He guarded him with paternal affection, though he might without any difficulty have got rid of him, being entirely destitute of all resources, had he been animated with the desire of extensive empire, and not with the ambition of being a benefactor.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

The Geological Survey supplied stacks of volumes, and reading for steady months; while, the longer he read, the more he wondered, pondered, doubted what his delightful old friend Sir Charles Lyell would have said about it.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

The king winced under this accidental home-shot, but kept still; he was learning his part; and he was playing it well, too, for a pretty dull beginner.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

Here was his wife, painted, and her sister Worshipp, a widow now and mighty pretty in her mourning.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Just at the very moment of their entrance, the Dowager Lady Snuphanuph and two other ladies of an ancient and whist-like appearance, were hovering over an unoccupied card-table; and they no sooner set eyes upon Mr. Pickwick under the convoy of Angelo Bantam, than they exchanged glances with each other, seeing that he was precisely the very person they wanted, to make up the rubber.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

'In some high respects, Mr Eugene Wrayburn,' said Bradley, answering him with pale and quivering lips, 'the natural feelings of my pupils are stronger than my teaching.'
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

The ground from Fort Pitt to the Allegheny [Pg 48] River was sold in 1784 to Isaac Craig and Stephen Bayard, and, after passing through various hands, was purchased by Gen. James O'Hara, September 4, 1805.
— from Fort Duquesne and Fort Pitt; Early Names of Pittsburgh Streets by Pa.) Daughters of the American Revolution. Pittsburgh Chapter (Pittsburgh

He was prowling around when quite unexpectedly he found himself confronted by Andy Rawlinson.
— from The Outdoor Girls in the Saddle; Or, The Girl Miner of Gold Run by Laura Lee Hope

He was Puritanic, strictly religious, as he interpreted the meaning of that word, and his mind was ever engrossed upon serious matters.
— from Biography of Rev. Hosea Ballou by Maturin Murray Ballou

Of what consequence then, is it to listen to those superstitious beings, those enemies to man's happiness, who have been desirous of destroying it, even in the inmost recesses of his heart; who have prescribed to him hatred of his follower; who have filled him with contempt for himself; who pretend to wrest from the honest man that self-respect which is frequently the only reward that remains to virtue, in a perverse world.
— from The System of Nature, or, the Laws of the Moral and Physical World. Volume 1 by Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'

When Chosroes heard this he was pleased, and calling together all who were of noble blood among the Persians, he disclosed to all of them what Vittigis had written and what the Armenians had said, and laid before them the question as to what should be done.
— from History of the Wars, Books I and II The Persian War by Procopius

Shortly afterwards came a letter stating that "her selection had received the sanction and approval of His Most Gracious Majesty King George V." The Chapter-General, it was stated, elected her "with particular satisfaction" to the grade of Honorary Associate.
— from Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary by W. P. (William Pringle) Livingstone

As Mr. Ashton brought his thrilling story to a conclusion, he drew from his waistcoat pocket a small, green leather case, evidently of Chinese workmanship, and, opening it, turned out upon the white cloth what I at first thought to be a small figure of green glass, which on closer inspection proved to be a miniature representation of the god Buddha, standing somewhat above an inch and a half in height, and wonderfully cut from a single [17] flawless emerald.
— from The Green God by Frederic Arnold Kummer

It was O'Kelly's usual custom to carry a great number of bank-notes in his waistcoat pocket, wisped up together with the greatest indifference.
— from Light Come, Light Go: Gambling—Gamesters—Wagers—The Turf by Ralph Nevill

By taking Matthias wholly into his own possession, he obtained one piece the more in the great game which he was playing against his antagonist in the Escorial.
— from The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-84) by John Lothrop Motley