VERGNIAUD, notice of, August Tenth, orations of, President at King's condemnation, in fall of Girondins, trial of, at last supper of Girondins. VERMOND, Abbe de. VERSAILLES, death of Louis XV.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

If in a new science, which is wholly isolated and unique in its kind, we started with the prejudice that we can judge of things by means of our previously acquired knowledge, which is precisely what has first to be called in question, we should only fancy we saw everywhere what we had already known, the expressions, having a similar sound, only that all would appear utterly metamorphosed, senseless and unintelligible, because we should have as a foundation our own notions, made by long habit a second nature, instead of the author's.
— from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant

“One of our pension acquaintances kindly brought her home,” said Miss Bartlett, adroitly concealing the sex of the preserver.
— from A Room with a View by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

I could see the North Lake lying out on the black floor away off in the outer edge of our panorama, and knitted to it by a web-work of lava streams.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

By my christendom, So I were out of prison and kept sheep, I should be as merry as the day is long;
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Whilst we use this grand cipher to expedite the affairs of our pot and kettle, we feel that we have not yet put it to its use, neither are able.
— from Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Then by strong effort, bravely made, The torrent of his tears he stayed, Wiped his bright eyes, his grief subdued, And thus, more calm, his speech renewed: “By Báli's conquering might oppressed, Of power and kingship dispossessed, Loaded with taunts of scorn and hate I left my realm and royal state.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

On the one hand, Mr. Harris pressed for a revision of the treaty and the concession of open ports at Kanagawa and Ozaka; on the other was the Court, turning an obstinately deaf ear to all proposals.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

7. He is still in the city, but soon he will be here, and will go up the steps ( ŝtuparon ) of our porch and knock on the door.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

It was interesting only because one of the thieves was a noted outlaw then out on parole and known to be desperate.
— from Letters of a Woman Homesteader by Elinore Pruitt Stewart

But a hard-pressed pilot will sometimes adopt that manœuvre deliberately to throw a pursuer out of position, and, knowing this, Mel followed him down to make sure he
— from Air Men o' War by Boyd Cable

Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention.
— from Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 by Thomas Jefferson

This was Mary, the old ferryman's daughter, a fair-cheeked girl of nineteen, who never neglected an opportunity of performing a kind office for her father's temporary guest; and when he and his man departed for their own tenement, not venturing directly to bestow them on our hero, she presented Joe with divers articles for their amusement and comfort in their secluded abode, among which were sundry live fowls, a pet fawn, and a kitten.
— from Wild Western Scenes A Narrative of Adventures in the Western Wilderness, Wherein the Exploits of Daniel Boone, the Great American Pioneer are Particularly Described by J. B. (John Beauchamp) Jones

“This will scarcely,” said Richie, “square with our old proverb— A King's face Should give grace— But what says the paper farther, my lord?”
— from The Fortunes of Nigel by Walter Scott

At least a score of other plants are known to produce rubber of a kind, but none of them have yet been much developed.
— from Botany: The Science of Plant Life by Norman Taylor

Ledrede, Bp. of Ossory, prosecutes Alice Kyteler, i. 354; iii. 456 .
— from A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages; volume III by Henry Charles Lea

—The Roman priesthood was composed of several orders of pontiffs, augurs, keepers of the Sibylline books, Vestal virgins, epulos, salians, lupercals, etc.
— from The Trial of Jesus from a Lawyer's Standpoint, Vol. 2 (of 2) The Roman Trial by Walter M. (Walter Marion) Chandler

But although there had been many encounters of an irregular kind between the Camisards and the leagued officials of Pope and King in the closing years of the seventeenth century, it was not until that weird figure, Spirit Séguier, who has been called the "Danton of the Cevennes," planned the murder of the Archpriest du Chayla at the little town of Pont de Montvert, on the 23rd of July, 1702, that the first blow in the Protestant rebellion may be said to have been struck.
— from In the Track of R. L. Stevenson and Elsewhere in Old France by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir

[26] We cannot conclude this analysis better than {52} by quoting from the last number of Fors in 1884: “Looking back upon my efforts for the last twenty years, I believe that their failure has been in great part owing to my compromise with the infidelity of this outer world, and my endeavours to base my pleading upon motives of ordinary prudence and kindness, instead of on the primary duty of loving God; foundation other than which no man can lay.
— from The Harvest of Ruskin by John W. (John William) Graham