At the mention of each name, she had struck the table with her stick in a new place.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

A Convention which has effervesced, and which has congealed; which has been red with rage, and also pale with rage: sitting with pistols in its pocket, drawing sword ( in a moment of effervescence ): now storming to the four winds, through a Danton-voice, Awake, O France, and smite the tyrants; now frozen mute under its Robespierre, and answering his dirge-voice by a dubious gasp.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Were it wholly national, the supreme and ultimate authority would reside in the MAJORITY of the people of the Union; and this authority would be competent at all times, like that of a majority of every national society, to alter or abolish its established government.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

This opinion, which, I will venture to say, was never conceived before our time by the monarchs of Europe, now sinks deeply into the minds of kings, and abides there amidst all the agitation of more unsettled thoughts.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

A Conjecture Some writers have ventured a conjecture that the dwarfs so often mentioned in the ancient sagas and fairy-tales were real beings, probably the Phœnician miners, who, working the coal, iron, copper, gold, and tin mines of England, Norway, Sweden, etc., took advantage of the simplicity and credulity of the early inhabitants to make them believe that they belonged to a supernatural race and always dwelt underground, in a region which was called Svart-alfa-heim, or the home of the black elves.
— from Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

[66] The last implement of the teacher to which I have adverted is examination—a means of education now so thoroughly understood that I need hardly enlarge upon it.
— from Man's Place in Nature, and Other Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley

It needed but a word from a daring leader, and a massacre, of every negro, scalawag and carpet-bagger in the county might have followed.
— from The Leopard's Spots: A Romance of the White Man's Burden—1865-1900 by Dixon, Thomas, Jr.

My days I'll pass in quiet,— Those left to me on earth— Nor sing for those who not yet Have learned a poet's worth."
— from Jewish Literature and Other Essays by Gustav Karpeles

With an animation that was youthful he described the meaning of each new song.
— from The Way of Ambition by Robert Hichens

The last implement of the teacher to which I have adverted is examination—a means of education now so thoroughly understood that I need hardly enlarge upon it.
— from Lectures and Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley

So you can follow the stream till at last below Athlunkard bridge you reach the long Lax Weir, which keeps the memory of Scandinavian settlers in its name ( lax is Norse for salmon, to-day as then), and the memory of early Norman settlement in the odd little tower built in the middle of the weir to command the passage, as long ago as the days of King John.
— from Munster by Stephen Lucius Gwynn

If the Temple of Jerusalem was the shrine of religion, the Forum of Rome was the shrine of law; and from thence has emanated that unrivalled system of jurisprudence which has formed the model of every nation since.
— from Roman Mosaics; Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood by Hugh Macmillan