On a table stood a silver model of the tomb of St. Clare, the silver head bowed, the silver sword broken.
— from The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

In the midst of this tempest of scorn an extraordinary man arose, to guide and deepen it into public ruin, Voltaire ; a personal profligate; possessing a vast variety of that superficial knowledge which gives importance to folly; frantic for popularity, which he solicited at all hazards; and sufficiently opulent to relieve him from the necessity of any labours but those of national undoing.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

105 Just, the, act by faith, 504 Justice, the, of God, 233 ; relation of, to law and custom, 294 , 325 ; and might, 298 , 299 ; determined by custom, 309 ; is what is established, 312 King, the, surrounded by people to amuse him, 139 ; a, without amusement, is full of wretchedness, 142 ; why he inspires respect, 308 ; and tyrant, 310 ; on what his power is founded, 330 Knowledge, limitations of man's, 72 ; of ourselves impossible, apart from the mystery of the transmission of sin, 434 ; of God and of man's wretchedness found in Christ, 526 Koran, the, 596 Lackeys, afford a means of social distinction, 318 , 319 Language, 27 , 45 , 49 , 53 , 54 , 59 , 648 Law, the, and nature, 519 ; the, and grace, 521 ; the, of the Jews, the oldest and most perfect, 618 Laws, the, are the only universal rules, 299 ; two, rule the Christian Republic, 484
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

Such a person instinctively steps into the middle of the boat when getting in, and always sits in the middle of the thwart or seat.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

A cut-glass chandelier filled with lighted candles hung like a giant stalactite above its centre, radiating over large gilt-framed mirrors, slabs of marble on the tops of side-tables, and heavy gold chairs with crewel worked seats.
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property by John Galsworthy

After breakfast was over I told him in a serious voice that if he would give me a free hand I could cure him, as he was not suffering from sciatica but from a moist and windy humour which I could disperse my means of the Talisman of Solomon and five mystic words.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

What is here referred to is the myth of the transmigration of souls.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

But as his opinions fluctuated greatly at different periods, and as he does not enter on the causes or means of the transformation of species, I need not here enter on details.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

Poirot might have excellent reasons for his belief in Inglethorp’s innocence, but a man of the type of Summerhaye would require tangible proofs, and these I doubted if Poirot could supply.
— from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

"'Since Providence has placed me on the throne of Spain, I have never for an instant lost sight of the obligations of my birth.
— from The Conspirators The Chevalier d'Harmental by Alexandre Dumas

Thinking that we were about to be taken up under the act for the suppression of vagrancy, we flew out of the house, sprang into a canoe before the door, and paddled with might and main over to the opposite side of the lake.
— from Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas by Herman Melville

A pretence was made of teaching the school foreign branches, such as spelling and geography; but whether it might be owing to the innate prejudice of their masters, or to their own stupidity, little, if any, progress was made.
— from Mildred Arkell: A Novel. Vol. 2 (of 3) by Wood, Henry, Mrs.

He must be of such sensitive spiritual fiber as to vibrate to every breeze of the national passion, of such spiritual capacity as to assimilate the common thoughts and moods of the time, of such fine perception and of such sureness of command over word, phrase, and rhythm, as to give crowning expression to what his soul has made its own.
— from Horace and His Influence by Grant Showerman

This was before discussion had revealed the more comprehensive bearings of the question, which finally removed me, as it has many others, to the opposite side of the question.
— from Woman's Profession as Mother and Educator, with Views in Opposition to Woman Suffrage by Catharine Esther Beecher

"The wounded already were coming in, in good numbers, on that unforgetable morning of the twelfth of September, when they brought him in—the first dead man that I had faced in the war," said he.
— from With the Doughboy in France: A Few Chapters of an American Effort by Edward Hungerford

Shall I call up Mr. Maynard on the telephone, or shall I ring up the police station?"
— from Marjorie's Busy Days by Carolyn Wells

Had the chief offended her, she would have found a score of ways to prove to herself that he meant nothing; but she desired no mitigation of the trespass of strangers.
— from What's Mine's Mine — Complete by George MacDonald

Then the car moved over to the other side of the street and stood there for five or ten minutes.
— from Dave Porter's Great Search; Or, The Perils of a Young Civil Engineer by Edward Stratemeyer