When a young woman in her 'walking out' can only boast one not-quite-satisfied young man, it is no particular pleasure to her to see her escort cast sheep's eyes at a better-looking girl supported by two devoted swains.
— from Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker

Other states indicate themselves in their deputies—but the genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors, or colleges or churches or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors—but always most in the common people, south, north, west, east, in all its States, through all its mighty amplitude.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

146 Examples of such a nature savor much less of religious persecution than of martial or even civil law; but they served to alienate the mind of the emperors, to justify the severity of Galerius, who dismissed a great number of Christian officers from their employments; and to authorize the opinion, that a sect of enthusiastics, which avowed principles so repugnant to the public safety, must either remain useless, or would soon become dangerous, subjects of the empire.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

The instruments were of course of the best manufacture: 1.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

Hatred is possible among peers, or people who are peers in one connection or another.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

22 In a note on the Kulwādis or Chalavādis of the Hassan district in Mysore, Captain J. S. F. Mackenzie writes 23 as follows:— “Every village has its Holigiri—as the quarters inhabited by the Holiars (formerly agrestic serfs) is called—outside the village boundary hedge.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

And, as it were one voice, an agony Of lamentation, like a wind that shrills All night in a waste land, where no one comes, Or hath come, since the making of the world.
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

Aard-vark (ärd′va ˙ rk: earth-pig), Dutch name for a burrowing insect-eating animal of South Africa, Orycterŏpus capensis , order Edentata, resembling the ant-eater and armadillo.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

And we find the same mingling of effects in the overwhelming conclusion of the [291] story.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

The utter weakness of their will, according to Déjérine, justifies their being ranked as neurasthenics; but in the latter class of case obsessional ideas are both fugitive and fluctuating, whereas mental torticollis is dependent on a fixed idea of peculiar tenacity.
— from Tics and Their Treatment by Henry Meige

Ralegh despatched it with a letter, asserting that it would certainly heal this or any other case of fever, unless there were poison.
— from Sir Walter Ralegh: A Biography by W. (William) Stebbing

Some others cried out and expressed their horror or regret, but the greater number looked on with stolid indifference, satisfied that they had themselves escaped immediate destruction, or absorbed in the selfish contemplation of their own pending fate.
— from Antony Waymouth; Or, The Gentlemen Adventurers by William Henry Giles Kingston

But summed up dispassionately later, in the light of my own observations, it seemed to me that the faults of character of which they were accused were more like the natural shortcomings of children.
— from Faery Lands of the South Seas by James Norman Hall

It was enacted that—"No man not being a banneret, or person of high estate," was permitted to wear cloth of gold, of crimson, or cloth of velvet, or motley velvet, or large hanging sleeves open or closed, or gowns so long as to touch the ground, or to use the furs of ermine, lettice, or marten, excepting only "gens d'armes {30} quant ils sont armez.
— from Chats on Costume by G. Woolliscroft (George Woolliscroft) Rhead

She, too, possessed a very affectionate heart, and the least appearance of coldness or anger from one she loved, would distress her much, but she had scarcely ever been known to speak or even to look angrily.
— from Aunt Kitty's Tales by Maria J. (Maria Jane) McIntosh

Different figures began sparingly to appear, and one by one crept out; objects of strange aspect who seem to come, one knows not whence;—the old clothes-man, with his low and sullen croak; country carts; milk-men, rattling their cans against area rails; butcher-boys swinging their trays.
— from The International Magazine, Volume 4, No. 5, December 1851 by Various

You must require such a user to return or destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of Project Gutenberg-tm works. *
— from The King Country; or, Explorations in New Zealand A Narrative of 600 Miles of Travel Through Maoriland. by J. H. (James Henry) Kerry-Nicholls

With (p. 352) reference to this memorandum Lord Roberts writes, in the second of his despatches (February 16th, 1900): "Before quitting the seat of Government I received a memorandum from the High Commissioner, in which Sir Alfred Milner reviewed the political and military situation, and laid stress on the possibility of a general rising among the disaffected Dutch population, should the Cape Colony be denuded of troops for the purpose of carrying on offensive operations in the Orange Free State.
— from Lord Milner's Work in South Africa From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902 by W. Basil (William Basil) Worsfold