It extended the existence of the Bureau to July, 1868; it authorized additional assistant commissioners, the retention of army officers mustered out of regular service, the sale of certain forfeited lands to freedmen on nominal terms, the sale of Confederate public property for Negro schools, and a wider field of judicial interpretation and cognizance.
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

This, again, is brought about by leaving aside as much as possible the matter of our representative state, i.e. sensation, and simply having respect to the formal peculiarities of our representation or representative state.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

One, which is so formed, that without any ceasing of contemplation, without any interval of change, though changeable, yet not changed, it may thoroughly enjoy Thy eternity and unchangeableness; the other which was so formless, that it had not that, which could be changed from one form into another, whether of motion, or of repose, so as to become subject unto time.
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

All matters being now properly ordered, and the mode of our retreat settled, we began to move forward.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

And on a car which asses drew The monarch of our race she threw.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Perhaps his grandpapa, not the bankrupt one, who is almost doting, but Mr. Osborne, of Russell Square, may be induced to relent towards the child of your friend, HIS ERRING AND SELF-WILLED SON.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Such a burrowing into the hold for trunks that had lain buried for weeks, yes for months; such a hurrying to and fro above decks and below; such a riotous system of packing and unpacking; such a littering up of the cabins with shirts and skirts, and indescribable and unclassable odds and ends; such a making up of bundles, and setting apart of umbrellas, green spectacles and thick veils; such a critical inspection of saddles and bridles that had never yet touched horses; such a cleaning and loading of revolvers and examining of bowie-knives; such a half-soling of the seats of pantaloons with serviceable buckskin; then such a poring over ancient maps; such a reading up of Bibles and Palestine travels; such a marking out of routes; such exasperating efforts to divide up the company into little bands of congenial spirits who might make the long and arduous Journey without quarreling; and morning, noon and night, such mass-meetings in the cabins, such speech-making, such sage suggesting, such worrying and quarreling, and such a general raising of the very mischief, was never seen in the ship before!
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

'I nor mine Rest: so my knighthood keep the vows they swore, The wastest moorland of our realm shall be Safe, damsel, as the centre of this hall.
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

After those early painful attempts to hold him up to the point from which they had hand in hand so splendidly started, attempts in which she herself had got terribly hurt and the Frederick she supposed she had married was mangled out of recognition, she hung him up finally by her bedside as the chief subject of her prayers, and left him, except for those, entirely to God.
— from The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim

To reach them a messenger would have to traverse a mile of open road, swept by-shrieking shrapnel and raked by rifle-fire.
— from Fighting in Flanders by E. Alexander (Edward Alexander) Powell

" "Decidedly my own opinion," returned Smith.
— from Lessons in Life, for All Who Will Read Them by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

“Go thy ways, then, for a suspicious fool,” said Christian, suppressing his strong desire to use language more offensive; “or rather stay where thou art, and take thy chance of the gallows!”
— from Peveril of the Peak by Walter Scott

Here rises, just north of the town, the Sugar Loaf, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two feet high, and on the left hand the mass of old red sandstone known as the Blorenge, one thousand seven hundred and twenty feet high.
— from England, Picturesque and Descriptive: A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel by Joel Cook

Many of our “restless spirits,” as we call them, have turned out to be our heroes, our discoverers, our greatest men.
— from Fast in the Ice: Adventures in the Polar Regions by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

Hansen is working out a map of our route so far, and copying out his observations for us, etc., etc.
— from Farthest North, Vol. II Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 by Fridtjof Nansen

A shaper, with much the same essential construction, moves along its work, the wood or metal operated on remaining stationary.
— from Inventors at Work, with Chapters on Discovery by George Iles

We therefore testify that the said Lucy Washington is no longer a member of our religious Society.
— from Dorothy Payne, Quakeress: A Side-Light Upon the Career of 'Dolly' Madison by Ella K. (Ella Kent) Barnard

There were thirteen legions of them in all, regularly formed, with eagles and standards; two which had deserted from Trebonius; one made out of Roman Spanish settlers, or old soldiers of Pompey's who had been dismissed at Lerida; four out of the remnants of the campaign in Africa; the rest a miscellaneous combination of the mutinous legions of Longinus and outlawed adventurers who knew that there was no forgiveness for them, and were ready to fight while they could stand.
— from Caesar: A Sketch by James Anthony Froude