Fearing that Marco's imprisonment might endure for many years, or, worse still, that he might not live to quit it (for many assured them that numbers of Venetian prisoners had been kept in Genoa a score of years before obtaining liberty); seeing too no prospect of being able to ransom him,—a thing which they had attempted often and by various channels,—they took counsel together, and came to the conclusion that Messer Nicolo, who, old as he was, was still hale and vigorous, should take to himself a new wife.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

100 That thou mayest rightly obey power, her bounds know; Those past, her nature, and name is chang'd; to be Then humble to her is idolatrie.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

The terrible spectacle of the battlefield covered with dead and wounded, together with the heaviness of his head and the news that some twenty generals he knew personally had been killed or wounded, and the consciousness of the impotence of his once mighty arm, produced an unexpected impression on Napoleon who usually liked to look at the killed and wounded, thereby, he considered, testing his strength of mind.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

If we look into the constitutions of the several States, we find that, notwithstanding the emphatical and, in some instances, the unqualified terms in which this axiom has been laid down, there is not a single instance in which the several departments of power have been kept absolutely separate and distinct.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

In Tania's praise in pouch he brought, Known unto children perfectly: Reveillez-vouz, belle endormie .
— from Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

If his predecessors had been kings in the ordinary sense, he would surely have been found residing, like the fallen kings of Rome and Athens, in the city of which the sceptre had passed from him.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Afterwards Viscount Hardinge, G.C.B., and K.T.S. 3rd son of Rev. Henry Hardinge, Rector of Stanhope, co. Durham, by Frances, dau. of James Best, of Park House, Boxley, Kent.
— from The Waterloo Roll Call With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes by Charles Dalton

As controller of the works actively pushed on at Kew, Chambers prospered so much as to be knighted, and to buy Whitton Place, near Hounslow, where the third Duke of Argyll, brother and heir of Jeanie Deans’s protector, himself better known as Lord Islay, had established a nursery of exotic trees, which it was his hobby to naturalise in England.
— from Kew Gardens With 24 full-page Illustrations in Colour by A. R. Hope (Ascott Robert Hope) Moncrieff

If the threshers catch him they detain him over night and punish him by keeping him from the harvest-supper.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Then he began to talk about the thousands who were to have been raised all over the country; how he himself had brought to the Duke promises of support gathered all the way from London to Bradford Orcas, and how his friends in Holland even promised both men and arms; but none of these promises had been kept; how Dad had brought promises of support from all the Nonconformists of the West, but hardly any, save at Taunton, had come forward; and how the army was melting away, and no more recruits coming in.
— from For Faith and Freedom by Walter Besant

The narcotic properties of the poppy have been known from times of great antiquity.
— from Poison Romance and Poison Mysteries by C. J. S. (Charles John Samuel) Thompson

Almost all her judges, except the Rector and Mr Proctor, had been known to Rosa from her earliest years.
— from The Perpetual Curate by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

Mrs. De Peyster, her brow knitted with agitated thought, walked slowly to one of her windows and stood looking down into the pleasant bustle of Washington Square.
— from No. 13 Washington Square by Leroy Scott

People are rushing wildly through the streets proclaiming that several persons have been killed by the military.
— from The Idler in France by Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of