'They that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of those that are weak, and not to please themselves.'
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

There is, I think, no just ground on which to condemn conscientious Catholics on the score of persecution, except only this: that as we are now convinced of the injustice of the persecuting laws, so among those who believed them to be just, there were some who were led by an instinctive protest of human feeling to be lenient in the execution of those laws; while others of harder nature and more narrow sympathies enforced them without reluctance, and even with exultation.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 01, April to September, 1865 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Various

His father offered to conclude a peace on such conditions as Ardashes might exact and under promise, guaranteed by a solemn oath, that the Alans would attempt no further incursions on Armenian territory.
— from Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Evelyn Lilian Hazeldine Carrington, contessa

In pursuance of this plan I shall here relate, in passing, some souvenirs of Saint-Cloud or the Tuileries, although we are now in camp at Finkenstein.
— from Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon — Complete by Louis Constant Wairy

The inhabitants are far from being famed for good usage to strangers, but, on the contrary, are blamed for being extravagant in their reckonings in the public-houses, which has not a little encouraged the setting up of sloops, which they now call passage boats, to Holland, to go directly from the River Thames; this, though it may be something the longer passage, yet as they are said to be more obliging to passengers and more reasonable in the expense, and, as some say, also, the vessels are better sea boats, has been the reason why so many passengers do not go or come by the way of Harwich as formerly were wont to do; insomuch that the stage coaches between this place and London, which ordinarily went twice or three times a week, are now entirely laid down, and the passengers are left to hire coaches on purpose, take post-horses, or hire horses to Colchester, as they find most convenient.
— from Tour through the Eastern Counties of England, 1722 by Daniel Defoe

He set the pan on the table, and walked away, not daring to lift the cover.
— from The Deserter, and Other Stories: A Book of Two Wars by Harold Frederic

This paragraph and the succeeding one are founded on the following sources: The official report written by John Eck of Trier; the Acta Wormaciæ , a narrative in the handwriting of Spalatin; and the statements of fourteen persons, Germans, Italians, and a Spaniard, all present in the Diet on the 17th and 18th of April 1521.
— from A History of the Reformation (Vol. 1 of 2) by Thomas M. (Thomas Martin) Lindsay

Once a bullet cut dead in the centre of the glass of the exposed end, and pieces crashed all around my head, burying themselves in the wall of the trench, and wounding a naik near by.
— from The Secrets of a Kuttite An Authentic Story of Kut, Adventures in Captivity and Stamboul Intrigue by Edward O. (Edward Opotiki) Mousley

The regulations of p139 St. Mary’s, Chichester, show the discipline suggested for offenders:— “If a brother shall have a quarrel with a brother with noise and riot, then let him fast for seven days, on Wednesdays and Fridays, on bread and water, and sit at the bottom of the table and without a napkin. . . .
— from The Mediæval Hospitals of England by Rotha Mary Clay

The commander-in-chief of the Tlascalan army, with a numerous retinue, entered the Spanish camp with proffers of submission.
— from Hernando Cortez Makers of History by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott