He wanted to write a book on "The Condition of the Jews," consisting of reports on all the important Jewish colonization enterprises in Russia, Galicia, Hungary, Bohemia, the Orient, and those more recently founded in Palestine, about which he had heard from a relative.
— from The Jewish State by Theodor Herzl

Civil Wars And The Ruin Of The Greek Empire.—Part I. Civil Wars, And Ruin Of The Greek Empire.—Reigns Of Andronicus, The Elder And Younger, And John Palæologus.— Regency, Revolt, Reign, And Abdication Of John Cantacuzene.— Establishment Of A Genoese Colony At Pera Or Galata.—Their Wars With The Empire And City Of Constantinople.
— 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

It held a ring, as Janetta could easily see—a hoop of gold in which were three opals—not a very large or costly-looking trinket, but one which seemed to have memories or associations connected with it—to judge, at least, by the look on Wyvis Brand's dark face.
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

The judges can exercise no executive prerogative, though they are shoots from the executive stock; nor any legislative function, though they may be advised with by the legislative councils.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

What other joy can equal thy return?
— from The Odyssey by Homer

and Clement VI. are inserted on the Corpus Juris Canonici, Extravagant.
— 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

He had just compunction enough for having done nothing for his sisters himself, to be exceedingly anxious that everybody else should do a great deal; and an offer from Colonel Brandon, or a legacy from Mrs. Jennings, was the easiest means of atoning for his own neglect.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Johanna confessed everything to me; and Alving could not deny it.
— from Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen

By transferring his army across the Shenandoah, and burning the bridge at Port Republic, Jackson could easily have escaped Frémont, and have met Shields in the Luray Valley with superior force.
— from Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War by G. F. R. (George Francis Robert) Henderson

O. N S Huckins, Joseph C., Epsom O Hudgens, A. P., Lake George, W.
— from List of Post Offices in Canada, with the Names of the Postmasters ... 1872 by Canada. Post Office Department

Just compost everything you have available and use all you wish to make.
— from Organic Gardener's Composting by Steve Solomon

And the same instrumental founders of our faith, under Jesus Christ, even the prophets and apostles.
— from A Christian Directory, Part 3: Christian Ecclesiastics by Richard Baxter

It was just cold enough to be exhilarating, and she felt the need of something bracing.
— from The Glory of the Conquered: The Story of a Great Love by Susan Glaspell

Life and Habit Transcribed from the 1910 Jonathan Cape edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.lorg Life and Habit By Samuel Butler Jonathan Cape
— from Life and Habit by Samuel Butler

"We ain't begging for a bed, Mr. Walters," Seth said decidedly, as he obeyed the command, "an' if we turn anybody out as we did last night——" "If you was begging a bed I reckon you wouldn't get it from me; but since you're so mighty independent I'm just contrary enough to see that you have one.
— from An Amateur Fireman by James Otis

Once the Athenæum , apparently staggered by the discovery that Joseph Conrad existed, reviewed a novel of his under the rubric of "Literature," instead of with other novels under the rubric of "Fiction."
— from Books and Persons; Being Comments on a Past Epoch, 1908-1911 by Arnold Bennett

" When Peace Negotiations Begin, We Should Take United Action " W HAT part America and the American Jews should play in the efforts to bring about a permanent betterment of Jewish conditions elsewhere, it is hard to say.
— from The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915 by Various