He obtained sanction to a code for the latter, which removed these people entirely from the Court system, and its tribe of leeches, and abolished all intermediaries between the Sahib and the Sonthal peasant.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

This, with her absent, pained expression, finished the contrast between her and her companions, who were all bright, eager, and busy.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

In such a state of fanaticism and faction, victory was hopeless, and defence was difficult; but the conclusion of an advantageous peace may be imputed to the discord of the Mahometans, and their personal esteem for the character of Frederic.
— 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

Where a character is, in every respect, fitted to be beneficial to society, the imagination passes easily from the cause to the effect, without considering that there are some circumstances wanting to render the cause a complete one.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

As soon as she entered the passage, Emma felt the cold of the plaster fall about her shoulders like damp linen.
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Peasant Evidence from the Crill Country Miss Gay kindly gave me the names of certain peasants in the Crill region, and from one of them, Mrs. Harriett Christopher, I gleaned the following material:— A Pisky Changeling.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

In the stone face over the great window of the bed-chamber where the murder was done, two fine dints were pointed out in the sculptured nose, which everybody recognised, and which nobody had seen of old; and on the scarce occasions when two or three ragged peasants emerged from the crowd to take a hurried peep at Monsieur the Marquis petrified, a skinny finger would not have pointed to it for a minute, before they all started away among the moss and leaves, like the more fortunate hares who could find a living there.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Again, on April 27, 1892, the Lower House defeated with 175 votes against 152, the second reading of a motion on the subject presented by Sir A. Rollit, and which provided as follows: "Every woman who in Great Britain is registered or entitled to be registered as an elector for a Town Council or County Council or who in Ireland is a rate payer entitled to vote in the election of Guardians of the Poor, shall be entitled to be registered as a Parliamentary elector, and when registered, to vote at any Parliamentary election for the county, borough, or division wherein the qualifying property is situate."
— from Woman under socialism by August Bebel

How could the rise of popular elements fail to call forth a kindred effort also among the lower classes?
— from A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) by Leopold von Ranke

By all means let the State provide a sound, plain education for the children of those whose means are too small to allow of their defraying the expense of it.
— from The Golden South: Memories of Australian Home Life from 1843 to 1888 by Kathleen Lambert

Oppenheimer and Gottlieb report cases of mixed hay fever where the skin reacts to pollen but the pollen extract failed to cure.
— from The Treatment of Hay Fever by rosin-weed, ichthyol and faradic electricity With a discussion of the old theory of gout and the new theory of anaphylaxis by George Frederick Laidlaw

Individuals guilty of fornication or adultery are promptly excommunicated from the church, unless the sin is followed by the most profound repentance and the best reparation which can possibly be made.
— from Cowley's Talks on Doctrine by Matthias F. Cowley

For the same reason that the Executive veto should, according to the doctrine maintained, be rendered nugatory, and be practically expunged from the Constitution, this power of the court should also be rendered nugatory and be expunged, because it restrains the legislative and Executive will, and because the exercise of such a power by the court may be regarded as being in conflict with the capacity of the people to govern themselves.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

Those who refused to confess whatever charges happened to be brought against them were tortured till they did confess, and then probably executed for the crimes which they admitted under such circumstances.
— from Our War with Spain for Cuba's Freedom by Trumbull White