The plenitude of power and restraint, the highest form of self-affirmation in a cool, noble, and reserved kind of beauty: the Apollonianism of the Hellenic will.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

I need not say that my own John Thomas was in all the pride and panoply of prickdom, and ready to burst with excitement.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

With the Royal Fortune , and the Brigantine, which they christened the Good Fortune , they pushed towards the Latitude of Deseada , to look out for Provisions, being very short again, and just to their Wish, Captain Hingstone ’s ill Fortune brought him in their Way, richly laden for Jamaica ; him they carried to Berbudas and plundered; and stretching back again to the West-Indies , they continually met with some Consignment or other, (chiefly French,) which stored them with Plenty of Provisions, and recruited their starving Condition; so that stocked with this sort of Ammunition, they began to think of something worthier their Aim, for these Robberies that only supplied what was in constant Expenditure, by no Means answered their Intentions; and accordingly they proceeded again for the Coast of Guiney , where they thought to buy Gold-Dust very cheap.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

By an exact consequence, drawn from this principle of policy and religion, the triumph was reserved to the emperor; and his most successful lieutenants were satisfied with some marks of distinction, which, under the name of triumphal honors, were invented in their favor.
— 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

During the three following days, the Chamber, having named a Committee for the purpose of preparing a reply to the opening speech, shall vote its reply, which shall be presented to the Khedive by a deputation chosen from amongst its members.
— from Secret History of the English Occupation of Egypt Being a Personal Narrative of Events by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

Carolus took up a second pile of paper, and repeated the title "Don Lopez or, Fatality."
— from Bohemians of the Latin Quarter by Henri Murger

A further method of divination was practised in the following way:—The lady wrote her lovers' names upon small pieces of paper, and, rolling them up in clay, put them into a tub of water.
— from Domestic folk-lore by T. F. (Thomas Firminger) Thiselton-Dyer

Tents, cooking utensils and the entire property of the tribe having been packed on ponies and removed to the vicinity of a large herd of buffaloes, camp was established and preparations made for curing the meat when it should be brought in.
— from Legends of The Kaw: The Folk-Lore of the Indians of the Kansas River Valley by Carrie De Voe

1 They would then ride down to the top of the market-place, where the steward would take out of his pocket a well-worn piece of parchment and read the following proclamation.
— from The Evolution of an English Town by Gordon Home

It was regarded at the time by the Southern States as absolutely necessary to secure to them their right of exclusive control over the question of emancipation, [370] and it was adopted in the Convention by unanimous consent, [371] for the express purpose of protecting a right that would otherwise have been without a satisfactory security.
— from History of the Origin, Formation, and Adoption of the Constitution of the United States, Vol. 2 With Notices of Its Principle Framers by George Ticknor Curtis

There are plenty of people always ready to treat the daring fellow that plays with the lions as if they were kittens; and so he gets reckless, lets the dangerous animal—on which, if he were sober, he would know he must always keep his eye—get dodging round behind him; or hits a beast in which he ought to [Pg 362] know that a blow rouses the sleeping devil; or makes a stagger, and goes down, and then they set upon him.”
— from The Old Showmen and the Old London Fairs by Thomas Frost

[David WAISMAN]; Peruvian Aprista Party (Partido Aprista Peruano) or PAP - also referred to by its original name Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana or APRA
— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

I lately requested a lady whom I knew to be a careful observer, but who was quite unfamiliar with this subject, to try whether she could write with a pencil or planchette, and report to me the result.
— from Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, April 1885 by Various

He set it down beside him, picked up a pile of papers and returned to his own desk.
— from Simeon Tetlow's Shadow by Jennette Lee