At this stage the Prime Minister sought to indicate that he intended great severity, without raising excessive hopes of actually getting the money, or committing himself to a particular line of action at the Conference.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes

Then if men of courage had those arms, which were at our gates, could Rome be taken in my consulate?
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

The case soon wore a different aspect when the woman's father, Lin Pa, put in an appearance and explained that Chang's sole object in making a series of false and unjust accusations against a blameless young woman was that he might be sure of magisterial sympathy and help in the matter of compelling her to accept a second marriage.
— from Lion and Dragon in Northern China by Johnston, Reginald Fleming, Sir

An artist who works in marble or colors has them all to himself and his tribe, but the man who moulds his thought in verse has to employ the materials vulgarized by everybody's use, and glorify them by his handling.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works by Oliver Wendell Holmes

A doubt flashed through Ferdinand's mind, as to whether this might not be a means of consigning him to a nameless and unrecorded death; but it instantly passed away, as all the events which had lately taken place crowded upon his memory; and, without showing any hesitation, he began the descent, carrying the lamp in his hand.
— from The Castle of Ehrenstein Its Lords Spiritual and Temporal; Its Inhabitants Earthly and Unearthly by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

The sudden and complete disuse of all manner of cosmetics had to a certain extent blanched her face.
— from A Lost Leader by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

It must not be thought, however, that because these are diseases of childhood and because a majority of children have them at one time or another, without great suffering and without serious after effects, they are on that account to be despised.
— from Rural Hygiene by Henry N. (Henry Neely) Ogden

The only remaining problem will be to find the manner of communicating his thought and emotion in undiminished force to others through the medium of speech.
— from Extempore Speech: How to Acquire and Practice It by William Pittenger

it's quite a tiny one, not far from the Gobelins.—He's a clockmaker, he is; he couldn't come with me, of course, having to attend to the business; and he will be very much put out when he finds I don't come back.—Yes, I cleaned the jewelry and did the errands—" Then her voice grew fainter, her words disjointed by the death rattle, which began.
— from The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 4 by Émile Zola

From the workshops and the offices of her cities, from the lumber camps of her forests, from the vast wheatfields of the West, from the farms and orchards of the East, from the slopes of the Rockies, from the shores of Hudson Bay, from the mining valleys of British Columbia, from the banks of the Yukon, from the reaches of the St. Lawrence, the manhood of Canada hurried to arms.
— from Canada in Flanders, Volume I by Beaverbrook, Max Aitken, Baron

But the most useful mortar, of course, had trunnions and adjustable elevation by means of quoins.
— from Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America by Albert C. Manucy