In the third month after the battle, Said, the lieutenant of Omar, passed the Tigris without opposition; the capital was taken by assault; and the disorderly resistance of the people gave a keener edge to the sabres of the Moslems, who shouted with religious transport, "This is the white palace of Chosroes; this is the promise of the apostle of God!"
— 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 was happy, quite happy, never having dreamed of another life or other pleasures.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

To recur to an example which has been used already for another purpose: "When a workman flings down a stone or piece of timber into the street, and kills a man; this may be either misadventure, manslaughter, or murder, according to the circumstances under which the original act was done: if it were in a country village, where few passengers are, and he calls out to all people to have a care, it is misadventure only; but if it were in London, or other populous town, where people are continually passing, it is manslaughter, though he gives loud warning; and murder, if he knows of their passing, and gives no warning at all."
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

It is a curious, though perhaps an idle speculation, how early in the long line of our progenitors the various expressive movements, now exhibited by man, were successively acquired.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

For, since that article was written, public sentiment in Germany has swept the Jews largely out of public office.
— from The International Jew : The World's Foremost Problem by Anonymous

But for failing of love on our part, therefore is all our travail.
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

The real value of the landlord's share, his real command of the labour of other people, not only rises with the real value of the produce, but the proportion of his share to the whole produce rises with it.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

The discovery of the ultimate law of our psychologic acts has this, then, in common with many other discoveries: it came late and seems so simple that it may justly astonish us.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

Passes should not be exacted within the line of outer pickets, but if any person shall abuse these privileges by communicating with the enemy, or doing any act of hostility to the Government of the United States, he or she will be punished with the utmost rigor of the law.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

In the light of our present knowledge some of these speculations have become obsolete, and it might have been possible, without impairing the value of the work as a Chronicle of the Rājputs, to have discarded from the text and notes much which no longer possesses value.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

But though so much of their work, and in Musset's and Vigny's cases all their best work, lies outside our province, and though they [Pg 209] themselves, with the possible exception of Gérard and Gautier, who have strong affinities, are markedly different from one another, there is one point which they all have in common, and this point supplies the general title of this chapter.
— from A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury

Everything was so big and dark and stiff in that room, I was afraid a pillow would look out of place.
— from Bobbie, General Manager: A Novel by Olive Higgins Prouty

Acton worked "the-no-good-to-try" dodge carefully and artistically; he never actually said his lie openly, or Phil would have nailed it to the counter, but, like a second Iago, he dropped little barbed insinuations here, little double-edged sayings there, until Biffenites to a man believed there would be a repetition of the "footer" cap over again, and the school generally drifted back to aloofness as far as Phil was concerned.
— from Acton's Feud: A Public School Story by Frederick Swainson

And they never said,” he went on, “that the Iroquois , three times the length of our poor, little bouncing tub, would be coming here three times a week.
— from Third Warning A Mystery Story for Girls by Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell

Meteors become visible when they plunge into the extreme limits of our [Pg 344] atmosphere.
— from Pioneers of Science by Lodge, Oliver, Sir

He used to keep his fire of coal balls burning all night long, out of pure kindness of heart, in case the Tylwyth Teg should be cold.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

It often seems to me like a heavy burden laid on our poor backs by the cruel Gods; but when I heard the young priest from the House of Seti, I felt that, after all, the Immortals are good, and we have much to thank them for."
— from Uarda : a Romance of Ancient Egypt — Volume 06 by Georg Ebers

He lives on other people, and so far as I know he does no good in the world.
— from Blacky the Crow by Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess

Those who have intimately known the official and personal life of our Presidents can not fail to remember how few have left the office as happy men as when they entered it, how darkly the shadows gathered around the setting sun, and how eagerly the multitude would turn to gaze upon another orb just rising to take its place in the political firmament.
— from The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 1 by Jefferson Davis