Had there been a gallant chief to lead my countrymen, instead or puling knaves who bent the knee to King Richard II., they might have been freemen; had there been a resolute leader to meet the murderous ruffian Oliver Cromwell, we should have shaken off the English for ever.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

All the mineral resources of China are the prey of the Japanese, and they have secured 80 per cent of them by bribery of the Peking government.
— from Letters from China and Japan by Harriet Alice Chipman Dewey

Above the muffled roar of conversation, the dismal wailings of babies at night, the thumping of feet in unseen corridors and rooms, mingled with the sound of varied hoarse shoutings in the street and the rattling of wheels over cobbles, they heard the screams of the child and the roars of the mother die away to a feeble moaning and a subdued bass muttering.
— from Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane

[pg 411] for show, furnished in the old-fashioned merchant style, with long monotonous rows of clumsy mahogany chairs along the walls, with glass chandeliers under shades, and gloomy mirrors on the walls.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Morning Receptions or Calls —Etiquette for the Hostess 76 CHAPTER X. Morning Receptions or Calls —Etiquette for the Caller 81 CHAPTER XI.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

A more insidiously misleading rule of conduct was, I believe, never devised among men.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Negroes in Cherokee Nation, education of 155 Negroes in Cherokee Nation, number of 155 , 157 Negroes , myth concerning 351 Negroes , myths of 448 , 450 , 452 , 483 Negroes , relation of myths of, to Indian myth 231 , 233 – 236 Nelson, E. W. , publication of paper by xxx Nenetooyah , change of name by 69 New Brunswick , work in xvii–xviii New Echota , attendance at conference at 123 New Echota , attitude of Cherokee toward treaty of 135 New Echota , capital of Cherokee Nation 107 New Echota , constitutional convention at 112 New Echota , Major Davis on treaty of 126 New Echota , East Cherokee right to benefits of treaty of 165 – 167 New Echota , provisions of treaty of 227 – 228 New Echota , ratification of treaty of 126 – 126 New Echota , treaty of 123 – 125 , 158 – 159 New-fire ceremony , Cherokee 502 – 503 New Mexico , report on collections from xix–xx New Mexico , work in xiii, xv–xvi Newspapers , Cherokee 111 – 112 Newtown , see New Echota .
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

The history goes on to say that when Sancho saw the Distressed One faint he exclaimed: "I swear by the faith of an honest man and the shades of all my ancestors the Panzas, that never I did see or hear of, nor has my master related or conceived in his mind, such an adventure as this.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Had these ideas been unreasonable, influences enough were at hand to correct them; but the point of the whole story, when Henry Adams came to look back on it, seemed to be that the ideas were more than reasonable; they were the logical, necessary, mathematical result of conditions old as history and fixed as fate--invariable sequence in man's experience.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

I must relate one circumstance here, because it is connected with my subsequent history, and cost me dear.
— from Joseph in the Snow, and The Clockmaker. In Three Volumes. Vol. III. by Berthold Auerbach

But as we halted for the night beside the magnificent ruin, one could but reflect on the ironies of a soldier's fortune.
— from With a Highland Regiment in Mesopotamia 1916—1917 by Anonymous

Now, to the roll of muffled drums, To thee the greatest soldier comes; For this is he Was great by land as thou by sea; His foes were thine; he kept us free; O give him welcome, this is he, Worthy of our gorgeous rites, And worthy to be laid by thee; For this is England's greatest son, He that gain'd a hundred fights, Nor ever lost an English gun; This is he that far away Against the myriads of Assaye Clash'd with his fiery few and won; And underneath another sun, Warring on a later day, Round affrighted Lisbon drew The treble works, the vast designs Of his labour'd rampart-lines, Where he greatly stood at bay, Whence he issued forth anew, And ever great and greater grew, Beating from the wasted vines Back to France her banded swarms, Back to France with countless blows, Till o'er the hills her eagles flew Past the Pyrenean pines, Follow'd up in valley and glen With blare of bugle, clamour of men, Roll of cannon and dash of arms, And England pouring on her foes.
— from Maud, and Other Poems by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

At one of our consultations, about the last of December, I mentioned that I wished to give in my report on commerce, in which I could not avoid recommending a commercial retaliation against Great Britain.
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 9 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson

[317] Passing now to the order Polygonaceæ we have to note the Great Water Dock ( Rumex Hydrolapathum )—a smooth plant, varying from three to six feet in height, much resembling other Common Docks in general appearance, but found almost always on the borders of streams and ponds.
— from Field and Woodland Plants by William S. Furneaux

And Mr. George M. Reynolds, of Chicago, thus frankly expressed himself: "I am inclined to think that the concentration, having gone to the extent it has, does constitute a menace."
— from Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Chester Arthur Phillips

"Were there thirty crowns to win," said he, at about the same time to the States of France, "I would not change my religion on compulsion, the dagger at my throat.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

On a still more recent occasion Colonel Rowlands had shown even greater activity.
— from The Story of the Zulu Campaign by Edmund Verney Wyatt Edgell

Sighs and laughter and curses and weeping mingled with the wild strains of Homeric song and mystic rites of Chaldea and Babylon, and the sacred chant of Isis.
— from When Dreams Come True by Ritter Brown

59 Dance of Death (Holbein's), 81 -85 Daye, John (Printer), 101 -104 Death of the Virgin (Missal), 54 Decameron, The (1492), 48 Dentatus, Death of ( engraved by W. Harvey ), 121 Dibdin's, Dr., Works, 1 Dienecker (Engraver), 78 Diploma of Highland Society (Clennell), 120 Douce, Francis, 82 Duplessis, M. Georges, 4 Dupré, Jean, 55 , 60 Dürer, Albrecht, 69 —— Apocalypse, 70 —— Engravings on Copper, 71 —— Life of the Virgin, 71 —— Passion of Our Lord, 71 —— 'Smaller' Passion, 71 , 73 —— Virgin crowned by Angels , 72 Elizabetha Regina (1569), 103 Elizabeth's, Queen, Prayer Book, 102 Emblems of Mortality (1789), 116 Estienne, Robert, 93 Figure Alphabet, The, 24 Flight into Egypt (Jegher's), 105 Foster, Birket, Drawing by, 126 Foxe's Book of Martyrs, 100 Froben, Johann, 81 Froschover, Christoph, 81 Fyshynge with an Angle (1496), 67 Gaber (German Engraver), 127 Game and Playe of the Chesse (Caxton's), 62 , 64 German Engravers, 127 Gray, Charles, 125 Green, W. T. (Engraver), 125 Greenaway, J., 125 Gutenberg's Psalter, 34 Harvey, William, 115 , 121 Heinecken, Herr, 4 , 10 Henry VIII in Council , frontispiece Heures à l'usaige de Chartres , 52 History of British Birds (Bewick), 110 -114 History of Quadrupeds (Bewick), 111 , 112 Holbein, Hans, 69 , 81 - 87 —— Alphabet of Dance of Death, 87 —— Bible Cuts (Old Testament), 86 , 87 —— Dance of Death , 82 -84 —— Society, 20 , 21 Holinshed's 'Chronicles of England,' &c., 100 Humphreys, Noel, 55 Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (1494), 42 -44 Illuminated Books of XV Century, 53 Images of Saints, 2 Jackson, John, 122 Jegher, Christoph , of Antwerp, 104 Jewitt, Orlando, 125 Johnson, Robert, 115 Jovius, Paulus, 95 Jungtow, 127 Kalendario (Venice, 1476), 41 Kerver, Thielman, 53 , 58 , 59 King's Banquet, The , 58 Kirkall, Elisha (1724), 106 Knight, Charles, 122 Landells, Ebenezer, 122 Le Noir (Printers' mark), 60 Le Rouge, 53 Linton, W. J., 1 , 5 , 106 Lippmann, Dr., 1 Little Masters, The, 87 Livres d'Heures, 57 Looking-glass for the Mind , 116 , 117 Lützelburger, Hans, 81 , 87 Macault reading his Translation , 94 Macé, Robert, of Caen, 96 Mansion, Colard, of Bruges, 62 Manuzio, Aldo , 45 , 46 Marchant, Guyot, 53 , 59 Maximilian, Emperor, 69 , 74 -80 Mazarine Bible, 30 Mer des Histoires, La, 53 Milan, Lives of Dukes of, 95 Metal Blocks, 51 Mirrour of the World (1478), 63 Morris, William, 53 , 128 Mulready: Vicar of Wakefield , 125 Nanto, Francesco da, 99 Navis Stultifera (1497), 38 Nesbit, Charlton, 116 , 118 Notary, Julian, 68 Nürnberg Chronicle, 36 Palmer, W. J., 126 Papillon, J. M. (French Engraver), 107 Passion of our Lord (Missal), 56 Petit, Jehan, 60 Pigouchet, Philippe, 55 Plantin, Christophe, Antwerp, 96 Playing Cards, 2 Porta, Giuseppe, 90 , 91 Porto, Battista del, 99 Powis, W. H. (Engraver), 125 Printers' marks, 60 —— Kerver's , 59 —— Le Noir's , 60 —— Plantin's , 98 —— Pynson's , 68 —— Tory's, Geoffroy , 91 —— Wynkyn de Worde's , 65 Psalter, Gutenberg's, 34 Pynson, Richard, 66 Recueil des Histoires de Troye, 62 Saint Bridget of Sweden, 9 Saint Christopher , 6 Saint Sebastian, 9 Salomon, Bernhard (Petit Bernhard), 95 Schaufelein, Hans, 74 Schongauer, Martin, 56 , 57 Scolari, Giuseppe, 99 Select Fables (Bewick), 111 Sessa Brothers, of Venice, 100 Slader, Samuel, 125 Smith, J. Orrin, 125 Somerville's Chase, 117 Sorti di Marcolini (1540), 90 , 91 Speculum Salvationis , 11 , 29 Terence (Lyons, 1493), 49 Theuredank, Adventures of, 74 Thompson, John, 119 , 123 , 124 Thurston, John, 118 Tory, Geoffroy, 91 , 92 , 94 , 95 Tournes, Jean de, 95 , 96 Trento, Antonio da, 99 Tristan, Romance of , 58 Triumphs of Maximilian, 74 - 80 —— Triumphal Arch (Dürer), 75 , 76 —— Triumphal Car (Dürer), 77 —— Triumphal Procession (Burgkmair), 78 , 79 Triumphal entry of Henri II into Lyons, 95 Triumphal entry of Henri II into Paris, 95 Triumphi del Petrarca (1488), 41 , 47 Ugo da Carpi, 99 Vecellio, Cesare, 100 Verard, Antoine, 53 , 57 Virgil Solis, 88 Virgin with four Saints (1418), 3 Vostre, Simon, 53 , 55 Werskunig, 74 Williams, Samuel, 125 Willshire, Dr., 2 , 55 Woodbery, Mr., 32 Wood-Engraver, The , x Wood Engravers (Living), 126 Wynkyn de Worde, 65 Spottiswoode & Co.
— from A Brief History of Wood-engraving from Its Invention by Joseph Cundall