She still watches over her royal crown, but in the Duchy of Lithuania the schism 77 is now established!” “From Czenstochowa?” said Wilbik.
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

Inspirational speaking, playing on musical instruments, etc., also belong to the relatively lower phases of possession, in which the normal self is not excluded from conscious participation in the performance, though their initiative seems to come from elsewhere.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

But as it is not expedient for courtiers to tell the sovereign he has done wrong, because “The king can do no wrong,” thereafter all the courtiers,— i. e. persons desiring to control the “sovereign” while seeming to obey him—instead of risking loss of the “royal” favor by boldly telling the people they had done wrong and ought to mend the error of their ways, began to fill their ears and salve their conscience with mediæval doctrines about salvation of the heathen through governmental missions maintained by the joint agencies of Cross and Sword.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

The chapter number for Invitatio (1) was missing; there is no entry for Clausula (151).
— from The Orbis Pictus by Johann Amos Comenius

Yet grief is not eternal, for clouds rise From out the ocean everlastingly.
— from Reviews by Oscar Wilde

The line of the projecting parts of the coast is nearly east from Cape Radstock for four leagues; and at the end of them is a cliffy point which received the name of Point Weyland .
— from A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 1 Undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802 and 1803, in His Majesty's ship the Investigator, and subsequently in the armed vessel Porpoise and Cumberland schooner by Matthew Flinders

Pity and alarm, in nearly equal forces, contested the possession of his mind; and yet, in spite of both, he saw himself condemned to follow in the lady’s wake.
— from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson

In addition, they have at their command hundreds and thousands of dedicated foreign communists, people in nearly every free country who will serve Moscow's ends.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

At this instant a soft ringing laugh, that once heard is not easily forgotten, comes from an inner room, that is carefully curtained and delicately lighted, and smites upon their ears.
— from Mrs. Geoffrey by Duchess

III My world I note ere fancy comes, Minutest hushed observe: What busy bits of motioned wits Through antlered mosswork strive.
— from Poems — Volume 2 by George Meredith

It is a very easy thing to sit down quietly and think or write of shooting a human being in self-defense; but such a thing is not easy for conscientious persons to do.
— from Frank Merriwell's Bravery by Burt L. Standish

"A handsome face is no excuse for coquetry," answered Durward; "neither can I think Miss Rivers guilty of it.
— from 'Lena Rivers by Mary Jane Holmes

It is not easy for civilians to get to Chalons, and almost every table is occupied by officers and soldiers—for, once off duty, there seems to be no rank distinction in this happy democratic army, and the simple private, if he chooses to treat himself to the excellent fare of the Haute Mere-Dieu, has as good a right to it as his colonel.
— from Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort by Edith Wharton

As no count seems ever to have been kept of the number of these rifles captured or handed in, no exact figure can be given.
— from Sunshine and Storm in Rhodesia Being a Narrative of Events in Matabeleland Both Before and During the Recent Native Insurrection Up to the Date of the Disbandment of the Bulawayo Field Force by Frederick Courteney Selous