In those days of liberty the agents of the powers in authority cared little enough for what we now regard as legal .
— from Parisians in the Country by HonorĂ© de Balzac
That which would be best in a country like England, the people of which have long been accustomed to look upon themselves as the final arbiters in all questions, is entirely out of place in a country like Egypt in which, almost for the first time, the people find themselves absolutely impotent to enforce their wills in any matter whatever.
— from Bonaparte in Egypt and the Egyptians of To-day by Abdullah Browne
If he will then try to walk toward the periphery of the rotating disk, he will readily note that it is very difficult, if not impossible, to walk along the radius of the circle; he naturally falls behind in the movement, so that his path is a curved line exactly such as is followed by the winds which move toward the equator in the trades.
— from Outlines of the Earth's History: A Popular Study in Physiography by Nathaniel Southgate Shaler
To approach more nearly the great body of the loyalists, who were settled between Haw and Deep Rivers, and to take a position in a country less exhausted than that around Hillsborough, Lord Cornwallis crossed the Haw, and encamped on Allimance creek.
— from The Life of George Washington: A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Editions by John Marshall
The algebra course in the secondary school, as taught to the pupils in their fifteenth year of age, very properly begins with severe exercises, with a view to discipline the pupil in analyzing complex literate expressions at sight, and to make him able to recognize at once the factors that are contained in such combinations of quantities.
— from Report of the Committee of Fifteen Read at the Cleveland Meeting of the Department of Superintendence, February 19-21, 1884, with the Debate by William Torrey Harris
The property-notion would be very likely to prevail in a country like England; and then it is not absolutely true that everybody sits in common, even in the churches of the continent of the old world.
— from The Chainbearer; Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper
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