The manager could not get on with an incompetent conductor that had been sent to him, and in his extremity had applied to Leipzig in the hope of getting a substitute forthwith.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

H2 anchor Liberty And Necessity Consistent Liberty and Necessity are Consistent: As in the water, that hath not only Liberty, but a Necessity of descending by the Channel: so likewise in the Actions which men voluntarily doe; which (because they proceed from their will) proceed from Liberty; and yet because every act of mans will, and every desire, and inclination proceedeth from some cause, which causes in a continuall chaine (whose first link in the hand of God the first of all causes) proceed from Necessity.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

Our present musters grow upon the file To five and twenty thousand men of choice; And our supplies live largely in the hope Of great Northumberland, whose bosom burns With an incensed fire of injuries.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

For when the females have produced young they are no longer in the habit of going to the males, and these seeking to be united with them are not able.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

He then retired to [411] Luton, where he died in 1877, with the words upon his lips: "Into Thy hands, O God, I commend my spirit.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

Finally, the majority of the audience left the room, and only the Chief of Police remained to listen (in the hope of gathering something more); but at last even he found himself forced to disclaim the speaker with a gesture which said: “The devil only knows what the fellow is talking about!”
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

Miss Darcy, though with a diffidence which marked her little in the habit of giving invitations, readily obeyed.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

He then is not seeking Lucy in the hope of getting some of Mrs. Bradfort's money?” “Not in the least.
— from Afloat and Ashore: A Sea Tale by James Fenimore Cooper

It happened that Polyxenidas, who had sailed with the king’s fleet from Colophon, after he heard that the Romans had left Samos and pursued the pirates to Myonnesus, and that they were laying waste the lands of the Teians, and that their fleet lay in the harbour of Geræsticus, cast anchor, in a retired harbour of an island called by the sailors Macris, opposite to Myonnesus.
— from The History of Rome, Books 37 to the End with the Epitomes and Fragments of the Lost Books by Livy

But every soul that loves, Lives in the heart of God and hears Him speak.” 1898.
— from The Poems of Henry Van Dyke by Henry Van Dyke

Flushing Volunteer Fire Department Responding to a Fire Alarm 103 A Bit of Farm Land in the Heart of Greater New York
— from New York Sketches by Jesse Lynch Williams

The immense range of time covered by Greek literature is brought more vividly to our imagination when we consider that this single Alexandrian school, which began late in the history of Greek writing and came
— from Latin Literature by J. W. (John William) Mackail

I have lived in the houses of Greeks, Turks, Italians, and English—to-day in a palace, to-morrow in a cowhouse; this day with a Pacha, the next with a shepherd.
— from Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 1 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore

I was left in the hands of guards and palace servants and then I was led into a room where my hands were roped behind me.
— from Voices from the Past by Paul Alexander Bartlett

It had first been decided to attempt a landing in the harbour of Galeta, on the south side of the city; but a heavy sea was setting in, and although the troops had been got into the boats they were re-embarked, and the fleet sailed round and anchored at the mouth of the channel leading up the bay.
— from By England's Aid; Or, the Freeing of the Netherlands, 1585-1604 by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

The glory is that which can be seen and known of the invisible and unapproachable light: that light itself, and the glorious fire of which that light is the shining out, that light is the Holiness of God.
— from Holy in Christ Thoughts on the Calling of God's Children to be Holy as He is Holy by Andrew Murray

He said that he came from Lima and lodged in the house of Gaspar Rodriguez all the time that he was in Cuzco, hearing all the doubts he raised.
— from The War of Quito by Pedro de Cieza de León