The list of names of those engaged in these expeditions throws interesting light on Russian social relations of that period.
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen

The initial letters of READY MONEY DOWN .
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

“At twenty minutes before nine o’clock—that is to say, a short time prior to my closing up the mouth of the chamber, the mercury attained its limit, or ran down, in the barometer, which, as I mentioned before, was one of an extended construction.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

As for himself, according to Helmholz, Ernst Mach, and Arthur Balfour, he was henceforth to be a conscious ball of vibrating motions, traversed in every direction by infinite lines of rotation or vibration, rolling at the feet of the Virgin at Chartres or of M. Poincaré in an attic at Paris, a centre of supersensual chaos.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

All the cases concede that an injury arising from inevitable accident, or, which in law or reason is the same thing, from an act that ordinary human care and foresight are unable to guard against, is but the misfortune of the sufferer, and lays no foundation for legal responsibility." /1/
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

You said——-” “O bother what I said,”—and the Colonel took up his sword to buckle it on, and then continued coolly, “the fact is Laura, our romance is played out.”
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

The great lords will refuse the English peasant his three acres and a cow on advanced grounds, if they cannot refuse it longer on reactionary grounds.
— from What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Here ill luck, or rather good luck, sent Mrs Western to see her maid in tears, which began to flow plentifully at her approach; and of which being asked the reason by her mistress, she presently acquainted her that her tears were occasioned by the rude treatment of that creature there—meaning Honour.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or reverie, he had heard their tale before.
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

Ibid., Letter of Roland, 701; of Pétion, 711.—Buchez et Roux, XVIII.
— from The French Revolution - Volume 2 by Hippolyte Taine

[188] — ( In Lakhs of Rupees ) August 1. January 1. Reserve Treasuries.
— from Indian Currency and Finance by John Maynard Keynes

His brothers bought him a box of colours, and he painted imaginary landscapes of rivers and swans and cows and castles.
— from Mendel: A Story of Youth by Gilbert Cannan

Yet we find the latest American historian of this campaign, in speaking of Grouchy’s rejection of the advice given by Gérard, when the cannon of Waterloo was heard, saying, that the question was, “whether to turn the army to its left on reaching Corbaix, and, crossing the Dyle by the bridges of Moustier and Ottignies, to take the road to Maransart and Planchenoit, or to adhere to the Emperor’s orders to follow the Prussians whom they now knew to be at Wavre,”— 568 and, again, that Grouchy “ persisted in adhering to the orders the Emperor had given him .”
— from The Campaign of Waterloo: A Military History Third Edition by John Codman Ropes

NOTE.—As the small Roman Numerals in this Index denote both the Volumes and the Pages of the Introductions, those who consult it may observe, that when the Introductory Pages are referred to, the Reference to the Volume is in large or Roman Capitals:—For Example, I, xx, refer to the first Volume, and to Page 20 of the Introduction to the same Volume; II, xxii, refer to Volume second, and Page 22 of that Volume.
— from The Witchcraft Delusion in New England: Its Rise, Progress, and Termination (Vol. 3 of 3) by Robert Calef

A better etymology leads us to see in it the idea of the “inevitable” law of retribution working unseen by men, and independently even of the arbitrary will of the Gods, and bringing destruction upon the proud and haughty.
— from Æschylos Tragedies and Fragments by Aeschylus

It is written in layers of rock that are not very deep, but are uncovered only here and there, and only now and then seen by eyes that can read the story told by fossil skeletons of horses of the ages long past.
— from Earth and Sky Every Child Should Know Easy studies of the earth and the stars for any time and place by Julia Ellen Rogers

In the intellectual life of Russia and Poland, of Spain and Italy, of France and Germany, the seeds which he had strewn broadcast with such a lavish hand fructified—from the dragon's teeth sprang armed men.
— from Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature - 4. Naturalism in England by Georg Brandes

With a mind less divergent in its pursuits, and more endowed with patience of thought, he might have unveiled the mysteries in which both these subjects were enveloped, and preoccupied the intellectual throne which was destined for his rival; but the infirm state of his health, the peevishness of temper which this occasioned, the number of unfinished inventions from which he looked both for fortune and fame, and, above all, his inordinate love of reputation, distracted and broke down the energies of his powerful intellect.
— from The Life of Sir Isaac Newton by David Brewster

Loyal to the highest constituted power in the land, actuated by an innate love of rectitude his aims would be the strict maintenance of public order, the repression of many abuses though not of all simultaneously (every measure of reform or retrenchment being a preliminary solution to be contained by fluxion in the final solution), the upholding of the letter of the law (common, statute and law merchant) against all traversers in covin and trespassers acting in contravention of bylaws and regulations, all resuscitators (by trespass and petty larceny of kindlings) of venville rights, obsolete by desuetude, all orotund instigators of international persecution, all perpetuators of international animosities, all menial molestors of domestic conviviality, all recalcitrant violators of domestic connubiality.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce