On the broad landing between Miss Havisham's own room and that other room in which the long table was laid out, I saw a garden-chair,—a light chair on wheels, that you pushed from behind.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

[220] In any case there is now [221] no danger of confusion or collision between the principle of Reparative and that of Retributive Justice, as the one is manifestly concerned with the claims of the injured party, and the other with the deserts of the wrongdoer: though in the actual administration of Law the obligation of paying compensation for wrong may sometimes be treated as a sufficient punishment for the wrongdoer.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

That change should remind us that even if the function of religion and that of reason coincide, this function is performed in the two cases by very different organs.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

65 Attentive to the prosperity of his own dominions, Marcian seemed to behold, with indifference, the misfortunes of Rome; and the obstinate refusal of a brave and active prince, to draw his sword against the Vandals, was ascribed to a secret promise, which had formerly been exacted from him when he was a captive in the power of Genseric.
— 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

Attentive to the prosperity of his own dominions, Marcian seemed to behold, with indifference, the misfortunes of Rome; and the obstinate refusal of a brave and active prince, to draw his sword against the Vandals, was ascribed to a secret promise, which had formerly been exacted from him when he was a captive in the power of Genseric.
— 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

Others reward, as those old Romans used to do; if a woman were contented with one man, Corona pudicitiae donabatur , she had a crown of chastity bestowed on her.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Our regiment formed in line on the right of the pike, the Minnesota regiment to our right, and the Ohio regiment on the left, while our artillery took a position on some higher ground near the pike, and began exchanging shots with that of the enemy.
— from The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865 by Leander Stillwell

Bruno himself insisted that he should be elected legally by the clergy and people of Rome and, though of royal blood, he entered the city barefoot as a penitent.
— from Europe in the Middle Ages by Ierne L. (Ierne Lifford) Plunket

True, the ‘Parlement’ of Paris, the supreme judicial court of the realm, tried to exercise a power of veto by insisting on its right of registering, and therefore of refusing to register, the royal edicts.
— from Europe in the Sixteenth Century, 1494-1598, Fifth Edition Period 4 (of 8), Periods of European History by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Johnson

Mr. Hartley said that the subject had employed his thoughts for some time, and that he had made up his mind in favor of requiring a term of residence.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 1 (of 16) by United States. Congress

Yet, notwithstanding the deference owing to contemporary opinions, I cannot but suspect that Clarendon has, in this instance as in some other passages, attached too great an importance to particular individuals, measuring them rather by their rank in the state, than by that capacity and energy of mind, which, in the levelling hour of revolution, are the only real pledges of political influence.
— from Constitutional History of England, Henry VII to George II. Volume 2 of 3 by Henry Hallam

It occurs native in very limited quantities in some of the older rocks, and then only requires to be ground and levigated.
— from Pigments, Paint and Painting: A practical book for practical men by George Terry

In other words, he's shown that the breakdown of the atoms of radium and the other radioactive elements isn't spontaneous, as Soddy and others had thought, but is due to the action of certain extremely penetrating rays given out by the sun.
— from The Man Who Rocked the Earth by Arthur Cheney Train

[ii.123] of Robespierre and the other revolutionary leaders, and led to practical results in the sale of the Church and other lands in small lots, so as to give the peasant a market to buy in.
— from Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2) by John Morley

Then the watchers make a dash for club, hotel, or restaurant, at their own risk, of course; the M.L.O. gives no kind of promise or guarantee.
— from A Padre in France by George A. Birmingham