" [Pg 309] FOOTNOTES: 1 Histories of warfare, of politics (though there are no good recent ones, Edward Jenks' little book being half a century out of date), of political theory (especially the excellent though dissimilar volumes by G. H. Sabine and by G. E. C. Catlin), of particular countries, of diplomacy, of religion, and even of literature all cast a certain amount of light on the subject.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

In a private condition, our desires are perpetually repressed by poverty and subordination; but the lives and labors of millions are devoted to the service of a despotic prince, whose laws are blindly obeyed, and whose wishes are instantly gratified.
— 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

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— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

[576] R. L. Stevenson, Across the Plains , chapter on Dreams.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

Sat in the house, early and late; sat in the garden; sat in unexpected window-seats in passages; sat (on a camp-stool) when her friends tried to take her out walking; sat before she looked at anything, before she talked of anything, before she answered Yes, or No, to the commonest question—always with the same serene smile on her lips, the same vacantly-attentive turn of the head, the same snugly-comfortable position of her hands and arms, under every possible change of domestic circumstances.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Revolving in a perpetual cycle of declensions, conjugations, syntaxes, and prosodies; renewing constantly the occupations which had charmed their studious childhood; rehearsing continually the part of the past; life must have slipped from them at last like one day.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

Summary Origin and stimulus We may recapitulate by saying that the origin of thinking is some perplexity, confusion, or doubt.
— from How We Think by John Dewey

Now it was customary at the Thesmophoria to throw pigs, cakes of dough, and branches of pine-trees into “the chasms of Demeter and Persephone,” which appear to have been sacred caverns or vaults.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

If it were recognised that in giving [Pg 82] decisions at common law, and also in the interpretation of statutes, judges were not only declarers of existing law but makers of new law, then it would be possible to discuss and perhaps control or direct the law-making power of latter-day judges which from time to time manifests itself in unbalanced social judgments.
— from The Law and the Poor by Parry, Edward Abbott, Sir

Petty cases of dispute were settled by headmen appointed by the chief and termed orang kaya , literally "rich men.
— from British Borneo Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo by Treacher, W. H. (William Hood), Sir

For the most part they came not back again; they waited week by week, month by month, year by year, till the moment was ripe, then gave the poisoned cup or drove home the dagger, and escaped or were slain.
— from The Brethren by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

The child’s piteous cry, “Oh, don’t let her go!
— from The Evil Genius: A Domestic Story by Wilkie Collins

Although we find no mention of the fact, it is rendered certain by the record which Bradford makes of the action of the Pilgrim company on December 11, 1620, at Cape Cod,—when
— from The Mayflower and Her Log; July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 — Volume 4 by Azel Ames

Others were more interested in the price current of different articles.
— from Golden Dreams and Leaden Realities by George Payson