The frightful reign of Richard III followed, which had, however, this redeeming quality, that it marked the end of civil wars and the self-destruction of feudalism, and made possible a new growth of English national sentiment under the popular Tudors.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

The case against the Jews is long and damning; it would justify ten thousand times as many pogroms as now go on in the world.
— from The Antichrist by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Santu Pápa, The people flocked to see the Pope. -an n group of people going s.w. ganda n k.o. leek: Allium odorum .
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Like or find fault; do as your pleasures are; Now good or bad, ’tis but the chance of war.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Wherever she turned, appeared mountain-tops, forests of pine and narrow glens, opening among the Apennines and retiring from the sight into inaccessible regions.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

Now, if I were Duke I would grant my father a pension, and have Eglamore hanged, and purchase a new gown of silvery green, in which I would be ravishingly beautiful, and afterward— Why, what would you do if you were Duke, Messer Guido?" "What would I do if I were Duke?"
— from The Certain Hour (Dizain des Poëtes) by James Branch Cabell

Frobisher was with one part, and narrowly got off with his life at Stamboul.
— from The Cardinal Moth by Fred M. (Fred Merrick) White

To build a future of energy security, we must trust in the creative genius of American researchers and entrepreneurs and empower them to pioneer a new generation of clean energy technology.
— from State of the Union Addresses by George W. (George Walker) Bush

Their nomadic life, therefore, is not entirely a choice, but partly a necessity, growing out of their dependence upon the reindeer.
— from Tent Life in Siberia A New Account of an Old Undertaking; Adventures among the Koraks and Other Tribes In Kamchatka and Northern Asia by George Kennan

The result of this practice is that on perceiving a natural group of many objects, we graduate them according to the perspective deterioration which each exhibits, and for greater precision we figure the perspective difference as an interval between the objects—an imaginary interval modelled on the true interval of association.
— from Reformed Logic A System Based on Berkeley's Philosophy with an Entirely New Method of Dialectic by D. B. McLachlan

Like or find fault; do as your pleasures are; Now good or bad, 'tis but the chance of war.
— from The History of Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare

I sought an explanation of this from various persons, and never got one that was convincing.
— from Your United States: Impressions of a first visit by Arnold Bennett

Pandulpho, A noble Gentleman of Naples, father to Virolet.
— from Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, Vol. 06 of 10 by John Fletcher

I must tell you also that, in most of the places over which the fire passed, a new growth of wood has already sprung up, of what we lumberers call hard wood, which consists of all other sorts but pine or fir; and I have always remarked that wherever the first natural growth of a forest is destroyed, either by the axe, the hurricane, or the fire, there springs up spontaneously another of quite a different kind."
— from Audubon and His Journals, Volume 2 (of 2) by John James Audubon

All exchanges whatsoever depend on diversity of relative advantage in the production of commodities or services or credits as between the persons exchanging; and this diversity of relative advantage exists [118] by God's appointment primarily among individual men as such, and only secondarily on the ground of the varied soil and climate and position and natural gifts of different parts of the earth.
— from Principles of Political Economy by Arthur Latham Perry