The men of Florence he bids prepare to receive the just reward of their crimes.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Now, let me just run over the course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong.”
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

And, as for what is called improving conversation, that is merely the foolish method by which the still more foolish philanthropist feebly tries to disarm the just rancour of the criminal classes.
— from Intentions by Oscar Wilde

The Knights of Justice ("Richtsritter") on the contrary assume the cross upon the shield itself, whilst the Knights of Grace suspend it from the bottom of the shield.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

[Pg 148] Mr. John Jones speaks very little English, and Mr. John Rees, of the Council School, acted as our interpreter.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

And now dunnot talk to me, but just read out th' chapter.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

The joint result of these circumstances would be, that a temporary combination of a few States to intermit the appointment of senators, could neither annul the existence nor impair the activity of the body; and it is not from a general and permanent combination of the States that we can have any thing to fear.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

[64] That is, according to the Japanese reading of the Chinese characters.
— from Exotics and Retrospectives by Lafcadio Hearn

With indescribable joy Rotha obeyed this command.
— from The Letter of Credit by Susan Warner

Therefore he answered him craftily,— “Ship have we none, for that which was ours King Poseidon brake, driving it on a jutting rock on this coast, and we whom thou seest are all that are escaped from the waves.”
— from Stories of the Old World by Alfred John Church

Locke held that the magistrate's whole jurisdiction reached only to civil concernments, and that 'all civil power, right, and dominion is bounded to that only care of promoting these things; and that it neither can nor ought in any manner to be extended to the saving of souls.
— from On Compromise by John Morley

But let me here advise tradesmen to keep a perfect acquaintance with their books, though things are bad and discouraging; it keeps them in full knowledge of what they are doing, and how they really stand; and it brings them sometimes to the just reflections on their circumstances which they ought to make; so to stop in time, as I hinted before, and not let things run too far before they are surprised and torn to pieces by violence.
— from The Complete English Tradesman (1839 ed.) by Daniel Defoe

Much interesting information is given in the report of the Governor of Hawaii as to the progress and development of the islands during the period from July 7, 1898, the date of the approval of the joint resolution of the Congress providing for their annexation, up to April 30, 1900, the date of the approval of the act providing a government for the Territory, and thereafter.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

I might perhaps not inappropriately illustrate this point more fully by stating many cases which fell under my own personal observation, or became known to me through authentic sources, at the Cape of Good Hope—a colony where slavery assumes, as it is averred, a milder aspect than in any other dependency of the empire where it exists; and I could shew, from the judicial records of that colony, received by me within these few weeks, cases scarcely inferior in barbarity to the worst of those to which I have just specially referred; but to do so would lead me too far from the immediate purpose of this pamphlet, and extend it to an inconvenient length.
— from The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave by Mary Prince

The former will remain; the latter may prove perishable hay and stubble, and when we overlook or ignore this distinction, it must be admitted that we expose ourselves to the just rebuke of the celebrated Professor of Berlin when he protests against "the attempts that are made to proclaim the problems of research as actual facts, the opinion of scientists as established science, and thereby to put in a false light before the eyes of the less informed masses, not merely the methods of science, but also its whole position in regard to the intellectual life of men and nations."
— from Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles by Daniel Hack Tuke

This is the Japanese reading of the Chinese name.
— from The Romance of the Milky Way, and Other Studies & Stories by Lafcadio Hearn

When Jeromín returned, overcome, to Cuacos, he found Doña Magdalena in the oratory, saying the prayers for the dying, again and again, with her ladies and servants.
— from The Story of Don John of Austria by Luis Coloma