The Fossa Quiritium, no inconsiderable defence against the easy access to the city from the low grounds, is the work of king Ancus.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

The Regular Army is now smaller in proportion to the population and wealth of the nation than it has ever been at any period since the organization of the Government; the number of the lawless, the facility for their organization, armament and concentration has on the other hand largely increased, with greater power to do harm by reason of the newly invented destructive and terrible explosives.
— from My Story by Anson Mills

e north of Hampshire, in the shape of Nately Scures and Upper Nately (Nataleie in Domesday )—as the equivalent of Natan Leah, the old name of the Upper portion of the New Forest, see Dr. Guest, as before quoted, p. 31 .
— from The New Forest: Its History and Its Scenery by John R. (John Richard) Wise

Now I do acknowledge that even this oblique view gave promise of the whole being worthy of observation; yet my curiosity lulled itself to repose till the Dutchess de N—— (constantly of our parties) arose at the end of another act, to gaze around with that confidence which women of a certain rank deem infinitely becoming in themselves, though if perceived in a shopkeeper's wife or daughter downright impudence alone would be called its proper description.
— from Secresy; or, Ruin on the Rock by E. (Eliza) Fenwick

The liberty of which I speak is of a different nature; it does all things easily which God would have done, and the more easily in proportion [p 212 ] to the duration and the painfulness of the incapacity to do them which we have previously experienced.
— from Spiritual Torrents by Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

This time he was not in doubt about the expression on her face; a sudden grimace like grief wreathed the red lips and there was more than a suspicion of tears in her eyes.
— from Joan of Arc of the North Woods by Holman Day

That night I dreamt about this evil divinity.
— from American Indian Stories by Zitkala-Sa

The principle by which the Reflective faculty of Judgment regulates and arranges the products of animated nature is described as the End or final cause,—the notion in action, the universal at once determining and determinate in itself.
— from The Logic of Hegel by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The attitude of the usual family is that obedience is not to be expected of one so young, consequently nobody is disappointed, and the effect on the child is telling.
— from The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine (June 1913) Vol. LXXXVI. New Series: Vol. LXIV. May to October, 1913 by Various