I must confess Le Maitre deserved it of her, for he was (if I may use the expression) dedicated to her service, in whatever appertained to either his art or knowledge, and the readiness with which he obliged gave a double value to his complaisance: thus she only paid back, on an essential occasion, the many favors he had been long conferring on her; though I should observe, she possessed a soul that, to fulfill such duties, had no occasion to be reminded of previous obligations.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"Their van will be upon us Before the bridge goes down; And if they once may win the bridge, What hope to save the town?" XXVII Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the Gate: "To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late.
— from Lays of Ancient Rome by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

Upon which the son said "Good night" to his mother, and kissed her on the forehead, while she bestowed upon him a threefold embrace and (covertly) a blessing; while Vasili Ivanitch conducted Arkady to his room, and wished him "such God-given rest as I myself used to enjoy during the happier years of my life."
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

It will be remembered that Congress appropriated $750,000 to make up the expected deficiency; but this will fall far below the necessities of the service; and it is very probable that this sum will be consumed in the payments of the contracts for the two first quarters.
— from Cheap Postage by Joshua Leavitt

We can't hev fights an' lessons mixed up together every day, more 'n 's necessary; better decide right now who's boss o' this school.
— from Mother Carey's Chickens by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

[47] The father of Baron de Rio Branco, Minister under the Emperor Dom Pedro II., is the author of the Law of the Ventre Libre , which emancipated all slaves to be born in the future.
— from South America To-day A Study of Conditions, Social, Political and Commercial in Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil by Georges Clemenceau

He pressed the match upon the embarrassed D'Orsay, and offered to settle the sum of forty thousand pounds upon the bride.
— from Famous Affinities of History: The Romance of Devotion. Vol 1-4, Complete by Lyndon Orr

The hunters, hidden in the forest, lay voiceless and motionless until the elders decided upon a plan of attack, and then the word was passed along that each man must fire his torch.
— from The Story of Ab: A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man by Stanley Waterloo

But, as a matter of history, the proceedings of Mosca upon that eventful day were of the greatest possible interest to Signorina Castaneve.
— from Little Novels of Italy by Maurice Hewlett

At first the segmental duct was probably split longitudinally into two equal portions, but the generative function of the Müllerian duct gradually impressed itself more and more upon the embryonic development, so that, in the course of time, the Müllerian duct developed less and less at the expense of the Wolffian duct.
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 1 (of 4) Separate Memoirs by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour

Out from the lodge gates issues the pack, and with the dogs go the governor of the pack, the two mounted piqueurs, the two chief foresters, the two chief dog valets, and the lesser officials—all of whom make up the equipage d'Uzes.
— from In Vanity Fair: A Tale of Frocks and Femininity by Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd

L. L. Paine, Evolution of Trinitarianism, 141, 287, says that New England Trinitarianism is characterized by three things: 1. Sabellian Patripassianism; Christ is all the Father there is, and the Holy Spirit is Christ's continued life; 2. Consubstantiality, or community of essence, of God and man; unlike the essential difference between the created and the uncreated which Platonic dualism maintained, this theory turns moral likeness into essential likeness; 3. Philosophical monism, matter itself being but an evolution of Spirit....
— from Systematic Theology (Volume 1 of 3) by Augustus Hopkins Strong

[Pg 253] and other great papers signed by the Prince of Wales, and asking for organized help in making up the existing deficits of £100,000 in London hospitals.
— from The Life of King Edward VII with a sketch of the career of King George V by J. Castell (John Castell) Hopkins