He had made a restitution to young Jolyon, and restitution to young Jolyon satisfied his secret craving for revenge-revenge against Time, sorrow, and interference, against all that incalculable sum of disapproval that had been bestowed by the world for fifteen years on his only son.
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property by John Galsworthy

“From the elaborate and vehement execution of the players, and the want of regular time in the music, I judged, and rightly, that we had entered as the overture began.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

The Judgement, as regards the formal rules of its action, apart from all matter (whether sensation or concept), can only be directed to the subjective conditions of its employment in general (it is applied 70 neither to a particular mode of sense nor to a particular concept of the Understanding); and consequently to that subjective [element] which we can presuppose in all men (as requisite for possible cognition in general).
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

You were speaking of Zeus sending justice and reverence to men; and several times while you were speaking, justice, and temperance, and holiness, and all these qualities, were described by you as if together they made up virtue.
— from Protagoras by Plato

After the conversion of Hungary, the pilgrims who visited Jerusalem might safely follow the course of the Danube: in their journey and return they passed through Philippopolis; and the sectaries, disguising their name and heresy, might accompany the French or German caravans to their respective countries.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

'Excessive was my joy at reading this intelligence so earnestly-desired, so little expected.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

However, these four went along with them, and conducted them as far as Jericho, which is not far from Jerusalem, and returned to Samaria.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

He literally runs wild; has no pretty little verses to learn in the nursery; no nice little speeches to make for aunts, uncles, or cousins, to show how smart he is; and, if he can only manage to keep out of the way of the heavy feet and fists of the older slave boys, he may trot on, in his joyous and roguish tricks, as happy as any little heathen under the palm trees of Africa.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

If their judgments are resisted, the executive arm must interpose, and if the state authorities aid in the resistance, the military power of the whole Union must be invoked to overcome it.
— from American Institutions and Their Influence by Alexis de Tocqueville

Goldberger took back the photographs from the foreman of the jury and ranged them before him on the table.
— from The Gloved Hand by Burton Egbert Stevenson

This, however, he did not do, but contented himself with destroying the walls of Jerusalem, and ransacking the town, the palace, and the Temple.
— from History of the Jews, Vol. 1 (of 6) by Heinrich Graetz

If they are not, the patient, although he may gain for a time the mastery over his habit, will presently be certain to find an excuse in his own mind to justify a return to it.
— from Habits that Handicap: The Menace of Opium, Alcohol, and Tobacco, and the Remedy by Charles Barnes Towns

He was privately accused of the offence, denied it vehemently, and brought the matter before the Prince, who practically acted as judge and regretfully told him that there could be no doubt of his guilt.
— from The Life of King Edward VII with a sketch of the career of King George V by J. Castell (John Castell) Hopkins

Under the stress of so dire an emergency as that they confronted they were quite right in attending only to the spirit of law and justice, and refusing to be hampered by the letter.
— from The Winning of the West, Volume 2 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783 by Theodore Roosevelt

However, Bonaparte gave way to the entreaties of Josephine, and resolved to drive to the opera.
— from Empress Josephine: An Historical Sketch of the Days of Napoleon by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

With a dignified gesture she pushed away the jewels and rose to her feet.
— from The Daughter Pays by Reynolds, Baillie, Mrs.

Her enemies she speedily removed, but she was just as ready to bestow honours and rewards upon her nation’s worthies.
— from Names: and Their Meaning; A Book for the Curious by Leopold Wagner

She received the letter with joy, and retired to read it in secret, that no one might witness her emotion.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXVII, No. 1, July 1850 by Various