The incubation of insurrections gives the retort to the premeditation of coups d‘état .
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

That Laura or that Catherine, who, In the remote, romantic years, From Petrarch or Camoens drew Their songs and their immortal tears!’
— from The Angel in the House by Coventry Patmore

He, fearing for these reasons that they might lean to the Roman cause, took note of all [Pg 138] the men who had any ability as politicians or could dominate the populace and sent them one after another to Epirus to his son on various excuses; occasionally, however, he would quietly assassinate them instead.
— 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

About 1850 the Chief Justice Robinson became the property of Capt. Dick and Mr. Heron.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

He betrayed, indeed, a period of comic doubt, cast one or two rapid glances from the child to the mother, indulged in an interval of self-consultation, but finally resigned himself with a good grace to play his part in the farce.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

Such fate to suffering worth is giv'n, Who long with wants and woes has striv'n, By human pride or cunning driv'n To mis'ry's brink; Till wrench'd of ev'ry stay but Heav'n, He, ruin'd, sink!
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

Often priest or children, discovering their mistake, and touched by the agony of their victims, would hasten back to the stream and assure the green-toothed water sprites of future redemption, when they invariably resumed their happy strains.
— from Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

As they paid but little attention to my trifling talents, and supposed I possessed no more than nature had given me, there was no appearance (notwithstanding the promises of Count de Gauvon) of my meeting with any particular consideration.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

No men stopped us, for there were none about from the Palace of Corrective Detention, and the others knew nothing.
— from Anthem by Ayn Rand

Sergius, master of the soldiers, and head of the republic, with the principal citizens, abandoned a city in which he could not behold, without horror, the establishment of a foreign dominion he retired to Aversa; and when, with the assistance of the Greeks and that of the citizens faithful to their country, he had collected money enough to satisfy the rapacity of the Norman adventurers, he advanced at their head to attack the garrison of the prince of Capua, defeated it, and reentered Naples.
— 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

[799] The following striking anecdote of this last species of instinct in an animal not famed for sagacity, was related to me by Lieutenant Alderson, (royal engineers,) who was personally acquainted with the facts.—In March 1816 an ass, the property of Captain Dundas, R.N., then at Malta, was shipped on board the Ister frigate, Captain Forrest, bound from Gibraltar for that island.
— from An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. 2 or Elements of the Natural History of the Insects by William Kirby

* Explanation of the Diagram.—A is the St. Charles River; B, the St. Lawrence; a is Palace Gate; 6, Gate St. John's; c, Gate St. Louis; d, Governor's Garden, wherein is a stone monument in memory of Wolfe and Montcalm; e, the portion of Cape Diamond at the foot of which Montgomery was killed; the grand battery; g, Preseott Gate; h, Hope Gate; o is a bold point of rock in the Sault-au-Matelot, where Arnold was wounded.
— from The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, Vol. 1 (of 2) or, Illustrations, by Pen And Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence by Benson John Lossing

Unhappily, this joke was followed by a relapse, and the prospect of certain death caused him such dreadful remorse for his deceit to the priest, that he confessed all, and submitted to be laid on a heap of ashes, with a cord around his neck, which was the penance recommended him!
— from Among the Great Masters of Music Scenes in the Lives of Famous Musicians by Walter Rowlands

As the fateful hour draws near, dim premonitions of coming divertisements rapidly multiply.
— from The Army Mule, and Other War Sketches by Henry A. (Henry Anson) Castle

"Oh," she declared, "not until that woman had the audacity to accuse me of heartlessly standing in the path of Cora Dares's happiness—of alienating your regard from her—of using, moreover, a hatefully treacherous means toward this end—a means which I should despise myself if I ever dreamed of using!..."
— from The Adventures of a Widow: A Novel by Edgar Fawcett

It was merely one of a long procession of culinary disasters.
— from Burned Bridges by Bertrand W. Sinclair

[14] It might be contended with great reason that exertion in these subjects is not a cause of strain or dilatation of the heart, but simply a test, as it were, or the proof, of cardiac debility and disability.
— from The Lettsomian Lectures on Diseases and Disorders of the Heart and Arteries in Middle and Advanced Life [1900-1901] by J. Mitchell (John Mitchell) Bruce