The Soveraigne Is Judge Of What Is Necessary For The Peace And Defence Of His Subjects And because the End of this Institution, is the Peace and Defence of them all; and whosoever has right to the End, has right to the Means; it belongeth of Right, to whatsoever Man, or Assembly that hath the Soveraignty, to be Judge both of the meanes of Peace and Defence; and also of the hindrances, and disturbances of the same; and to do whatsoever he shall think necessary to be done, both beforehand, for the preserving of Peace and Security, by prevention of discord at home and Hostility from abroad; and, when Peace and Security are lost, for the recovery of the same.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

Left alone, the young man on the comic paper poured himself out another glass to give himself more assurance and independence; he drank and ate a snack of something, and never had the actual civil councillor Ivan Ilyitch made for himself a bitterer foe more implacably bent on revenge than was the young man on the staff of the Firebrand whom he had so slighted, especially after the latter had drunk two [67] glasses of vodka.
— from Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

They respect one another more, and much is built on respect.
— from Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Monforte is built out round its citadel like a spider’s web.
— from Galicia, the Switzerland of Spain by Annette M. B. Meakin

The distinction between these two classes of duties becomes apparent on the slightest reflection, and the variations in their relative prominence form one of the most important branches of religious history.
— from History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) by William Edward Hartpole Lecky

This race of savage warriors acquired the mastery of a region equal in extent to Central Europe; and by a system of warfare, not, after all, more inherently barbarous or recklessly bloody than that of Europe’s Grand Monarch, reconstructed the social and political map of the continent east of the Mississippi.
— from The Lost Atlantis and Other Ethnographic Studies by Wilson, Daniel, Sir

In order to gain our positions to carry out this plan, I took the mounted infantry by one route, and sent the Hussars and guns by another more southerly path—under Major Ridley—to take up their places as ordered."
— from Baden-Powell of Mafeking by J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher

"Listen," went on Tandy, "that was as nothing; for now the German Prince of Hesse-Darmstadt, who had come too, in the interests of his Austrian master, interfered, begging of Rooke and that other not to destroy the town, since it would injure their cause forever with the Spaniards, and--and--well, the Portygee captain of that picaroon I spoke says that they were only too willing to fall in with his desires and retire without making further attempt."
— from Across the Salt Seas: A Romance of the War of Succession by John Bloundelle-Burton

All sorts of fancy cakes may be made into baskets or ratafias.
— from How to Make Candy A Complete Hand Book for Making All Kinds of Candy, Ice Cream, Syrups, Essences, Etc., Etc. by Anonymous

The larvæ, on hatching, set up an irritation in the rapidly-developing tissues, causing the latter to swell and become malformed into bunches of rosette-like galls.
— from Garden Pests in New Zealand A Popular Manual for Practical Gardeners, Farmers and Schools by David Miller

Nor should the traveller be surprised if perchance he finds lop-eared rabbits making themselves at home in his bedroom, as we did in the Albergo Titano, although this peculiarity is not confined to San Marino, it being on record in Volterra that when an artist begged the hotelkeeper to sweep below his bed, she answered that it could not be done, much as she wished to oblige the signore, because her hens were sitting!
— from A Little Pilgrimage in Italy by Olave M. (Olave Muriel) Potter

The company reserved Manhattan Island, but other regions were opened to settlement.
— from The Colonization of North America, 1492-1783 by Herbert Eugene Bolton

An English autumn with its moor-sport and the life of country houses; an English winter with growth of acquaintances at hospitable firesides had doubtless not been without their modifying influence; but other reasons were also discoverable for the change in his manner towards Isabel.
— from Isabel Clarendon, Vol. 2 (of 2) by George Gissing