It was only when she was received by the kind physician and read pity in his eyes, and saw his look of hopeless incredulity when she attempted to tell him that she was not insane; it was only when she passed through the ward to which she was consigned and saw the horrible creatures, the victims of a double calamity, whose dreadful faces she was hereafter to see daily, and was locked into the small, bare room that was to be her home, that all her fortitude forsook her.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

Moreover, Napoleon in his early campaigns had played a ridiculous part in some of Gillray's most indecent cartoons, where Mmes.
— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical, and Chronological, from Contemporary Sources by Emperor of the French Napoleon I

The political decency of the Allies, the appeal of President Wilson's Fourteen Points, the patent obsolescence of the Kaiser and what he stood for, the resurgence of Polish, Baltic, Finnish, Czechoslovak and South Slav nationalisms—all these played a real part in making Germany surrender in 1918.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

Even capitalism at home, which engages many local sympathies, which plays a real part in the daily process of production, and upon the security of which the present organization of society largely depends, is not very safe.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes

The persecutions against philosophers and their libraries was carried on with so much fury, that from this time (A. D. 374) the names of the Gentile philosophers became almost extinct; and the Christian philosophy and religion, particularly in the East, established their ascendency.
— 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

Perhaps severity and craft are more favourable conditions for the development of strong, independent spirits and philosophers than the gentle, refined, yielding good-nature, and habit of taking things easily, which are prized, and rightly prized in a learned man.
— from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

kiki-yaku, agent for the sale of a baron's produce as rent paid in kind.
— 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

It is often said that the Horse presents a remarkable peculiarity in that the canine teeth grow but once.
— from The Beauties of Nature, and the Wonders of the World We Live In by Lubbock, John, Sir

But it was some time, even with these influences surrounding him, before music began to play any real part in Bok's own life.
— from A Dutch Boy Fifty Years After by Edward William Bok

Begins his political career as Quaestor, partly at Rome, partly in Spain.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

The Eclogues, commenced in his native district in the year 42 B.C. , were completed and published at Rome probably in the year 37 B.C.
— from The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by W. Y. (William Young) Sellar

From morning till late at night common people of every occupation crowded around the temple; the aristocracy and the wealthy citizens assembled in the forecourt; while the priests of the city and of the neighboring provinces made sacrifices to Ptah and repeated prayers in the most holy chapel.
— from The Pharaoh and the Priest: An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt by Bolesław Prus

[146] poetry as real poets, it doesn’t pay to be a real poet.
— from The Genial Idiot: His Views and Reviews by John Kendrick Bangs

In Switzerland, which appears to me, much more than France, to be bursting with prosperity and redundant population, it seems on the whole harder to suggest a general rule.
— from The Lake of Lucerne by Joseph E. (Joseph Ernest) Morris