Besides Mitford, Siebold and myself, the other guests were the Prince of Bizen, the Court Noble Ohara Jijiû, Kido, Machida, Mori (afterwards known as Mori Arinori), Kanda Kôhei [pg 411] a professor at the School of Languages and editor of one of the recently established Yedo newspapers, and Tsudzuki Shôzô of Uwajima.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

In April a party of twenty warriors surrounded the house of a man named Casteel on the French Broad about nine miles above Knoxville and massacred father, mother, and four children in most brutal fashion.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

They came into his cabin presently, where he sat with his elbows on his knees and his chin in his hands—the picture of discouragement and their spokesman said: “Mr. Sterling, when Tim was down a week with his fall you kept him on half-wages and it was a mighty help to his family; whenever any of us was in trouble you’ve done what you could to help us out; you’ve acted fair and square with us every time, and I reckon we are men and know a man when we see him.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

uti uxores quot et quas vellent liceret , that every great man might marry, and keep as many wives as he would, or Irish divorcement were in use: but as it is, 'tis hard and gives not that satisfaction to these carnal men, beastly men as too many are:
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

"HE has as much, and knows as much, philosophy as a peasant or a corps-student," said the one—"he is still innocent.
— from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

At first automatic reflexes produce all kinds of motions, and each movement awakes kinesthetic and muscle sensations.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

To send a lad to London town, They met upon a day; And mony a knight, and mony a laird, This errand fain wad gae.
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

O mony a knight, and mony a laird, This errand fain wad gae; But nae ane could their fancy please, O ne'er a ane but twae.
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

“In the country those men came from, they care just as much about killing a man, as you care about emptying the ashes out of your pipe.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

Thus was Francisco divorced from the world, from father, mother, and kindred, and married to poverty, to whom from this time forth he devoted his life.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 05, April 1867 to September 1867 by Various

A man represented with his arms folded, and who did everything, who was the greatest force ever known, the most concentrated, the most mordant, the most acid of all forces; a singular genius who carried armed civilization in every direction without fixing it anywhere; a man who could do everything because he willed everything; a prodigious phenomenon of will, conquering an illness by a battle, and yet doomed to die of disease in bed after living in the midst of ball and bullets; a man with a code and a sword in his brain, word and deed; a clear-sighted spirit that foresaw everything but his own fall; a capricious politician who risked men by handfuls out of economy, and who spared three heads—those of Talleyrand, of Pozzo de Borgo, and of Metternich, diplomatists whose death would have saved the French Empire, and who seemed to him of greater weight than thousands of soldiers; a man to whom nature, as a rare privilege, had given a heart in a frame of bronze; mirthful and kind at midnight amid women, and next morning manipulating Europe as a young girl might amuse herself by splashing water in her bath!
— from Another Study of Woman by Honoré de Balzac

It finds, moreover, at least in this part of the metropolis, abler, keener, and more active rivals than in rural parts, or in most provincial towns.
— from The Church Index A Book of Metropolitan Churches and Church Enterprise: Part I. Kensington by William Pepperell

CHAPTER XVII—FIVE PICKT MEN ‘I took wise men and known and made them captains.’—
— from Bunyan Characters (3rd Series) by Alexander Whyte

[12 bis] Several other modifications are known as minute crystals.
— from The Principles of Chemistry, Volume II by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev

“But look here, Mern, you can’t go up into that region, where everything is wide open to all men, and kill a man or abduct him.
— from Joan of Arc of the North Woods by Holman Day

Most gracious Soveraigne, Wee your Majesties most humble and Loyall Subjects, the Commissioners from all the Presbyteries in this your Majesties ancient Kingdome, and members of this present Nationall Assembly, Having expected to finde at our meeting, a gracious and Satisfactory returne to those humble representations made to your Majestie at the Hague , by the Commissioners of this Kirk, cannot but expresse our great sorrow and griefe, that your Majesties goodnes has been so far abused, As that not only the just and necessary desires presented by them to your Majestie, which so much concerne the glory of God, your owne honour and happinesse, the peace and safety of your Kingdomes, are utterly frustrated, as wee perceive by the paper delivered in answer to them; but also this Assembly hath not received so much as any signification by letter of your Majesties minde: Which princely condescension had not wont to be wanting in your Royall Father, to former Generall Assemblyes, even in times of greatest distance.
— from The Acts Of The General Assemblies of the Church of Scotland by Church of Scotland. General Assembly

That is, when Lord Adare, the Master of Lindsay, and a cloud of other witnesses, thought they saw heavy bodies moving about of their own free will, either somebody cheated, or the spectators beheld what they did behold, because they expected to do so, even when, like M. Alphonse Karr, and Mr. Hamilton Aide, they expected nothing of the kind.
— from Cock Lane and Common-Sense by Andrew Lang

and now the only favor I have cared to bestow excites your jealousy.—The Chancellor talks of making me of age at fourteen, three years from hence, and you treat me as a child!—By God, but I mean to be King, and as much a King as my father and grandfather were kings!"
— from The Works of Honoré de Balzac: About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita, and Other Stories by Honoré de Balzac