Personally I rode back to Jonesboro on the 6th, and there inspected the rebel hospital, full of wounded officers and men left by Hardee in his retreat.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

There is a fine mediaeval flavor to this story, and as it has not been traced back further than Pere Brateille, a pious but obscure writer at the court of Saint Louis, we shall probably not err on the side of presumption in considering it apocryphal, though Monsignor Capel's judgment of the matter might be different; and to that I bow—wow. INFIDEL, n.
— from The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

"Tal Hajus," said Lorquas Ptomel in a cold, hard voice, "never in my long life have I seen a jeddak of the Tharks so humiliated.
— from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

And apart from the Jansenism which is the work of a not very eminent bishop who wrote a Latin treatise which is now unread, there is also, so to speak, a Jansenism of the individual biography.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

" So saying, he disappeared, to the great joy of the company.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

But this system of maintaining an expensive judicial machinery to pass upon the validity of laws only after they have long been executed, and then only when brought before the court by some private person—does it not cause great confusion? TERRESTRIAN: It does. LUNARIAN: Why then should not your laws, previously to being executed, be validated, not by the signature of your President, but by that of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court? TERRESTRIAN: There is no precedent for any such course. LUNARIAN: Precedent.
— from The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

[Eugenie Grandet.] BONGRAND, born in 1769; first an advocate at Melun, then justice of the peace at Nemours from 1814 to 1837.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

My father was a justice of the peace, and I supposed he possessed the power of life and death over all men and could hang anybody that offended him.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

Keightley, [50] quoting from the ‘Apparitions,’ misprints the author’s name ‘Edward Jones of the Tiarch,’ and accredits the publication to ‘the latter half of the eighteenth century,’ whereas it was published in 1813.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

This was just one typical congested American city.
— from Our Railroads To-Morrow by Edward Hungerford

Michaelis, stationed at the junction of the Roman road with that leading to Godstone Quarry.
— from The Great War in England in 1897 by William Le Queux

The honourable roll was closed by Sir John Popham, the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas.
— from Diary of John Manningham Of the Middle Temple, and of Bradbourne, Kent, Barrister‑at‑Law, 1602-1603 by John Manningham

I do not for a moment dispute the very great superiority in comfort of the latter, by which I would be understood to mean all those resemblances to one's own home which an English hotel so eminently possesses, and every other one so markedly wants; but I mean that in contrivances to elevate the spirit, cheer the jaded and tired wayfarer by objects which, however they may appeal to the mere senses, seem, at least, but little sensual, give me a foreign inn; let me have a large spacious saloon, with its lofty walls and its airy, large-paned windows, (I shall not object if the cornices and mouldings be gilded, because such is usually the case,)—let the sun and heat of a summer's day come tempered through the deep lattices of a well-fitting "jalousie," bearing upon them the rich incense of a fragrant orange tree in blossom—and the sparkling drops of a neighbouring fountain, the gentle plash of which is faintly audible amid the hum of the drone-bee—let such be the "agremens" without—while within, let the more substantial joys of the table await, in such guise as only a French cuisine can present them—give me these, I say, and I shall never sigh for the far-famed and long-deplored comforts of a box in a coffee-room, like a pew in a parish church, though certainly not so well cushioned, and fully as dull, with a hot waiter and a cold beefsteak—the only thing higher than your game being your bill, and the only thing less drinkable than your port being the porter.
— from The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Volume 3 by Charles James Lever

As Sir John had been party to certain documents which were executed by his brother in his lifetime (which were among those which had been discovered), and in which the circumstances of the concealed marriage and the birth of the claimant were acknowledged, it was useless for him to deny the justice of the demand, and he recognised his nephew without demur.
— from Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton by Anonymous

The Jews of Toulouse, too, for a long time had to suffer numerous indignities.
— from History of the Jews, Vol. 3 (of 6) by Heinrich Graetz

"I am the Wandering Jew of thought," was his cry to Eve from the Hotel des Haricots, "always up and walking without repose, without the joys of the heart, without anything besides what is yielded me by a remembrance at once rich and poor, without anything that I can snatch from the future.
— from Balzac by Frederick Lawton

If it be asked what was decided in Marbury v. Madison, the answer is that this, and only this, was decided, namely, that the court had no jurisdiction to do what they were asked to do in that case ( i. e. to grant a writ of mandamus, in the exercise of their original jurisdiction), because the Constitution allowed to the court no such power; and, although an act of Congress had undertaken to confer this jurisdiction on them, Congress had no power to do it, and therefore the act was void, and must be disregarded by the {78} court.
— from John Marshall by James Bradley Thayer

The event certainly vindicated the justice of this latter view, and we shall briefly trace the occurrences of the next three or four days which terminated the long conflict at Petersburg.
— from A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee by John Esten Cooke

Jethro ordered the troops who had just joined him, all of whom carried bows and arrows, to ascend the walls and open fire upon the buildings occupied by the Egyptians.
— from The Cat of Bubastes: A Tale of Ancient Egypt by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty