There was an assemblage of persons under the portico of our house, in whose gestures I instinctively read some heavy change, some new misfortune.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I have quoted this last phrase, not because it clearly exhibits the notion of Rational Freedom,—on the contrary, it rather shows how easily this notion may be confounded with the other.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

Upon reflecting on which matter one might blame your zeal as perfectly ungovernable; for when the enemy had retired to their highest fastnesses, you ought to have restrained yourselves, and not, by presenting yourselves at the top of the city, to be exposed to dangers; but upon your having obtained the lower parts of the city, you ought to have provoked those that had retired thither to a safe and settled battle; whereas, in rushing so hastily upon victory, you took no care of your safety.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

And so we understand the words, "And the Word was made flesh," [5] —that is, man, which some not accepting in its right sense, have supposed that Christ had not a human soul.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

For we feel uncertain in the mere absence of the person whose conversation is reported, since his value can not be determined.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

Nay, if a man has many advantages over others, he will easily become an object of envy, which is ready, should he once fall from his height of prosperity, to turn into malignant joy.
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

My hour was up, and I reluctantly started homeward, but had gone only a few rods before the song was repeated.
— from Birds in the Bush by Bradford Torrey

In rapid succession he uttered half a dozen jay-baby squawks, rested a moment, then repeated them, hopping about the tree in great excitement.
— from Little Brothers of the Air by Olive Thorne Miller

He hurried her across the library, into the inner room, seated her, and when he had closed the door, stood beside her, and began, as if he had been to blame, to apologise for himself.
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 10 Helen by Maria Edgeworth

Well Might I refuse such half-heart's homage!
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition by Robert Browning

each nation first was rude, Each man a cheerless son of solitude, To whom no joys of social life were known; None felt a care that was not all his own; Or in some languid clime his abject soul Bow'd to a little tyrant's stern control; A slave, with slaves his monarch's throne he raised, 450 And in rude song his ruder idol praised; The meaner cares of life were all he knew; Bounded his pleasures, and his wishes few.
— from George Crabbe: Poems, Volume 1 (of 3) by George Crabbe

The same word , and the same form of the word, which, in the 47th verse, is rendered sell himself , is in the 39th verse of the same chapter, rendered be sold ; in Deut. xxviii.
— from The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4 by American Anti-Slavery Society

The bitterness with which he spoke of his former officers made me quite sure he was a deserter, and I rather suspected he had made his escape from the service in consequence of some punishment.
— from Wau-Bun: The Early Day in the Northwest by Kinzie, John H., Mrs.

But he recognized the deep indentation of Marcella Bay, confirming his observation by the conspicuous wooded islet rising some hundred feet from the sea at its northern arm.
— from Round the World in Seven Days by Herbert Strang