However, let this epistle be published through all the country that is under our obedience, and let all the Jews, by all means, be ready against the day before mentioned, that they may avenge themselves upon their enemies.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

I am happy to say that all but one of the cases which for so long vexed our relations with Venezuela have been settled within the past few months and that, under the enlightened regime now directing the Government of Venezuela, provision has been made for arbitration of the remaining case before The Hague Tribunal.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

Might I not also have discovered, if I had been wholly candid with myself, that there was genuine feeling in the words of devotion he had so frequently whispered to me, and that under the extravagance of his behavior there lurked a vein of real sentiment?
— from A Romantic Young Lady by Robert Grant

Selina and Augusta turned down their mouths, and turned up their eyes.
— from Beatrice Boville and Other Stories by Ouida

But already after a few bars, I remarked that those who accompanied me were as yet unacquainted with this music, and therefore unable to enter into the spirit of it.
— from Louis Spohr's Autobiography Translated from the German by Louis Spohr

Professor Howes terms the lower patch of bone the metacoracoid and the upper the epicoracoid; Page 39 {39} the former is alone concerned with the glenoid cavity.
— from Mammalia by Frank E. (Frank Evers) Beddard

We know some men will not read a letter which is supposed to bring ill news; and many men forbear to cast up their accounts, or so much as think upon their estates, who have reason to fear their affairs are in no very good posture.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 2 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 3 and 4 by John Locke

Although the glories of its coaching days are but memories of the past, and notwithstanding that the motorists pass so unpretentious a building for the more attractive-looking King's Arms, the despised of the modern traveller has retained a portion of its old-time custom and prosperity, by reason of its being the inn at which the carriers' carts deposit their morning and take up their evening passengers.
— from The Heart of Wessex by Sidney Heath

Throwing off his sleep with a deep breath so soon as Geoffrey touched his shoulder, Von Donck stared up at the moon, and then upon the equally pale face of the watchman, who knelt over him and exclaimed: "Hear the sounds along yonder valley?" In a moment the Dutchman was on his feet, alert and listening.
— from The Plowshare and the Sword: A Tale of Old Quebec by John Trevena

Nevertheless, before we part, for the refreshment of our own good bodies, and by way of reward and act of courtesy unto this noble and accomplished stranger, let us pledge him in some foreign grape of fame, to which he may perhaps be more accustomed than unto the ever-preferable juices of our Father Rhine.”
— from Vivian Grey by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield