In reality warfare by Mohammed's captains and successors demonstrated two principles of long-range psychological warfare which are still valid today: A people can be converted from one faith to the other if given the choice between conversion and extermination, stubborn individuals being rooted out.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

Kumite Fish-hawk Pelican Crow Black cockatoo A non-poisonous snake Smoke, honeysuckle, certain trees, etc. Blackwood-trees, dogs, fire, frost, etc.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

In this way we shall arrive at a proper choice between conflicting duties—the subject of this part of our investigation.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

He, Frag. 7 comprehending that peace could be caused by war , attacked the attackers, defended his position, and captured their cities, one of which he razed to the ground, and treated many of the men taken as slaves and transferred many others to Rome.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

‘Catherine and Edgar are as fond of each other as any two people can be,’ cried Isabella, with sudden vivacity.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

6 For if we are looking for mental enjoyment and relaxation, what pleasure can be compared with the pursuits of those who are always studying out something that will tend toward and effectively promote a good and happy life?
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

[Pierrette.] LORRAIN, son of the preceding couple, Bretagne; captain in the Imperial Guard; major in the line; married the second daughter of a Provins grocer, Auffray, through whom he had Pierrette; died a poor man, on the battlefield of Montereau, February 18, 1814.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

In the centre of the space was a dark pool, circled by crystalline palaces inhabited by the sacred snakes, from huge pythons to the terrapin proud of his tureen.
— from He by Walter Herries Pollock

peasant, countryman, boor, carle[obs3], churl; villain, villein; terrae filius[Latin: son of the land]; serf, kern[obs3], tyke, tike, chuff[obs3], ryot[obs3], fellah; longshoreman; swain, clown, hind; clod, clodhopper; hobnail, yokel, bog-trotter, bumpkin; plowman, plowboy[obs3]; rustic, hayseed*, lunkhead
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

153 For a final purpose cannot be commanded by any law of Reason without this latter at the same time promising, however uncertainly, its attainableness; and thus justifying our belief in the special conditions under which alone our Reason can think it as attainable.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

21 "A demur"; now called a demurrer, is when a defect or legal difficulty is discovered, which must first be settled by the judge before the action or proceedings can be carried on.-ED.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01 by John Bunyan

An insoluble purple powder, which, when heated along with eight times its weight of gelatinous alumina, produces a blue pigment ( COBALT BLUE , COBALT ULTRAMARINE ), almost equal in beauty to ultramarine.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I by Richard Vine Tuson

The implacable Discord went, and with the dame, (Companion of the enterprise, was Pride) Upon her road; and found that, by the same, Was journeying to the paynim camp, beside, Comfortless Jealousy, with whom there came A little dwarf, attending as a guide; Who erst had been sent forward with advice To Sarza's king, by beauteous Doralice.
— from Orlando Furioso by Lodovico Ariosto

The aristocratic party could but chafe in impotent rage.
— from Caesar: A Sketch by James Anthony Froude

The light grows till the central words around the pedestal can be clearly read: ERECTED To the Memory of STEPHEN MORE "Faithful to his ideal" High above, the face of MORE looks straight before him with a faint smile.
— from Complete Plays of John Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

Now slowly, almost imperceptibly, the wind went down, and the musgo rolled away, and when morning broke cold and drearily over the sea and hills, the sky was comparatively clear, our position could be clearly defined and our danger could be faced.
— from Wild Life in the Land of the Giants: A Tale of Two Brothers by Gordon Stables

Notes on Parasites collected by C. D., by T. Spencer Cobbold.
— from Life of Charles Darwin by G. T. (George Thomas) Bettany

How much are we indebted to those men, who, under God, were the instruments in effecting it, men who cheerfully hazarded their lives to achieve a design which involved the felicity of millions unborn; who boldly attacked the system of error and corruption, though fortified by popular credulity, by custom, and by laws, fenced with the most dreadful penalties; and who, having forced the stronghold of superstition, and penetrated the recesses of its temple, tore aside the veil that concealed the monstrous idol which the world had so long ignorantly worshipped, dissolved the spell by which the human mind was bound, and restored it to liberty!
— from Life of John Knox, Fifth Edition, Vol. 1 of 2 Containing Illustrations of the History of the Reformation in Scotland by Thomas M'Crie