As he was sitting there drinking, the smell of roast goose made its way to his nose.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

They are means, and powerful means, by which the excellences of republican government may be retained and its imperfections lessened or avoided.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

The weakness of the American colonial system has always lain in the fundamental unfitness of republican governmental machinery for boldly advocating and honestly enforcing doctrines which deny frankly and as a matter of course that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

My brother Julius, who had come over from Leipzig for one of the performances of Rienzi, gave me a still more naive testimony as to the real point of interest in the opera.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

I received no reply, and set out upon my return journey as soon as the term of rest granted me had expired.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

George Ogle Roger Gorsuch Martha Snow Au.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

In the midst of their confusion and blushes, whilst dictating, or rather giving me general instructions, it did not require any great penetration to discover that what they wished was that their letters should be as kind as was consistent with proper maidenly pride.
— from Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey

Then they talked a few moments longer, and after the goodnights, or rather good mornings, the guests of the chateau retired to bed.
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

One was washed clear away, and the bed-rock exposed; the other was buried out of sight under a tumbled chaos of rocks, gravel, mud, and rubbish.
— from A Tramp Abroad — Volume 06 by Mark Twain

"Young women," said the doctor, "you are to follow us to the torture room, unless you, Princess Skeep Hup, instantly reveal what I wish to know, or, rather, give me your promise to do so, for it must be revealed to me alone."
— from The Bradys After a Chinese Princess; Or, The Yellow Fiends of 'Frisco by Francis Worcester Doughty

Ilya (government of Vilna), home of Menashe Ilyer, II 114 Ilyer, Menashe ( Manasseh ), Talmudist with modern tendencies, II 114 ff acquires modern culture, II 114 criticises spiritual leaders, II 115 book of, burned, II 115 pleads for modifications of religious law, II 115 unappreciated by contemporaries, II 116 Imperial Messenger ( Pravityelstvyenny Vyestnik ), official organ of Russian Government, minimizes pogroms, II 255 warns against pogrom protests, II 291 foreshadows new pogroms, II 299 criticised by Moscow News , II 299 Informing and Informers , see Mesirah Inkerman, Heights of , near Sevastopol, Jewish soldiers killed at, II 149 Inns ( and Taverns ), keeping of, forms important Jewish pursuit, I 265, 362 Jews in White Russia forbidden from, I 311 permitted by Senate, I 312 forbidden by Statute of 1804, I 342 f See Arendar, Propinatzya, and Villages Innocent IV. , pope, bull of, condemning ritual murder libel (1247), referred to, I 179 Intelligenzia , Jewish, in Russia, assimilation of, II 206 ff in league with Russian Government, II 211 f indifferent to things Jewish, II 212 Society for Diffusion of Enlightenment acts on behalf of, II 215 disillusionment of, II 324 ff Interior, Russian , the (Russian empire outside Pale of Settlement), barred to Jews of annexed White Russia (1790, 1791), I 316 Jewish manufacturers, merchants, and artisans permitted to sojourn temporarily in (1804), I 344 Governments of Astrakhan and Caucasia in, opened to Jewish agriculturists (1804), I 342 f Council of State considers admission of Jewish merchants into, II 35 f;
— from History of the Jews in Russia and Poland, Volume 3 [of 3] From the Accession of Nicholas II until the Present Day by Simon Dubnow

Good night, or rather, good morning, Miss Dixon.
— from Dorothy Dixon and the Double Cousin by Dorothy Wayne

415 Sonnets, Milton's, 233 Petrarch's, 93 95 Sophocles and the Greek Drama, 217 Soul, 303 Soult, Marshal, reference to, 67 Southampton, Earl of, notice of, 384 Southcote, Joanna, 336 Southern and Northern countries, difference of moral feeling in, 285 Southey, Robert, review of his Colloquies on Society, 132 ; his characteristics, 132 134; his poetry preferable to his prose, 136 ; his lives of Nelson and John Wesley, 136 137 ; his Peninsular War, 137 ; his Book of the Church, 137 ; his political system, 140 ; plan of his present work, 141 ; his opinions regarding the manufacturing system, 146 ; his political economy, 151 ; seq.; the national debt, 153 156 ; his theory of the basis of government, 158 ; his remarks on public opinion, 159 160 ; his view of the Catholic claims, 170 ; his ideas on the prospects of society, 172 ; his prophecies respecting the Corporation and Test Acts, and the removal of the Catholic disabilities, 173 ; his observations on the condition of the people in the 16 th and 19 th centuries, 174 ; his arguments on national wealth, 178 180 ; review of his edition of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, 250 ; see also Bunyon. South Sea Bubble, 200 Spain, 488 ; review of Lord Mahon's War of the Succession in, 75 ; her state under Philip, 79 ; her literature during the 16 th century, 80 ; her state a century later, 81 ; effect produced on her by bad government, 85 ; by the Reformation, 87 ; her disputed succession, 88 91 ; the Partition Treaty, 92 93 ; conduct of the French towards her, 93 ; how affected by the death of Charles, 98 ; seq.; designation of the War of the Spanish Succession, 338 ; no conversions to Protestantism in, 348 Spanish and Swiss soldiers in the time of Machiavelli, character of, 307 Sparre, the Dutch general, 107 Sparta, her power, causes of its decline, 155 ; note; defeated when she ceased to possess, alone of the Greeks, a permanent standing army, Mr. Milford's preference of over Athens, 181 ; her only really great men, 182 ; characteristics of her government, 183 184 ; her domestic institutions, 184 185; character of some of her leading men, 185 ; contrasted with Athens, 186 187 ; slavery in, 190 Spectator (the), notices of it, 385 389, 397 Spelling of proper names, 173 Spencer, Lord, First Lord of the Admiralty, 277 Spenser, 251 252 ; his allegory, 75 Spirits, Milton's, materiality of them, 227 Spurton, Dr., 494 Spy, police, character of, 519 520 Stafford, Lord, incident at his execution, 300 Stamp Act, disaffection of the American colonists on account of it, 78 ; its repeal,
— from Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays; Vol. 2 With a Memoir and Index by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

My God, Sir, what a poetic idea!” murmured, or rather gurgled, Major Scuppernong to Abel at his side.
— from Trumps by George William Curtis

I say "our" for we are now a good and compact body of really good men, and mostly not old men.
— from Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 by Charles Darwin

angles, I felt distressfully cumbersome; a day of proof indeed for me, for heavy squalls swept incessantly over the loch, and Davies, at my own request, gave me no rest.
— from The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers

For all this carriage, and all these words were by him premeditated evil; he knew he lied, he knew he dissembled; yea, he knew that he made use of the name of God, of religion, good men, and good books, but as a stalking-horse, thereby the better to catch his game.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan