Now that the revolution of the previous January had so completely changed the face of affairs, these men had returned to their native province, headed by Takéda Kinjirô, a grandson of Kô-un-sai, and their political opponents, whom they styled Kan-tô (traitors), finding themselves on the losing side, and likely to be in a perilous minority, since the Tengu-ren were backed up by the imperialists, had gone off to Echigo, to the number of some five hundred.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

She still inhabited the Palace de Villa-Franca, the Possessors of which treated her with marked affection.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

weorðungstōw f. place of worship, the Tabernacle , Æ. weoruc
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

Go on, my dear friend, till you, and those who, like you, have been saved, so as by fire, from the dark prison-house, shall stereotype these free, illegal pulses into statutes; and New England, cutting loose from a blood-stained Union, shall glory in being the house of refuge for the oppressed,—till we no longer merely " hide the outcast," or make a merit of standing idly by while he is hunted in our midst; but, consecrating anew the soil of the Pilgrims as an asylum for the oppressed, proclaim our welcome to the slave so loudly, that the tones shall reach every hut in the Carolinas, and make the broken-hearted bondman leap up at the thought of old Massachusetts.
— from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass

Syme had never thought of asking whether the monstrous man who almost filled and broke the balcony was the great President of whom the others stood in awe.
— from The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

As a matter of fact, the attempts made at the rehearsal to produce those very passages on which the effect of my work chiefly depended were very discouraging.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

I was upon the point of writing to him a second letter, to which I was certain he would have returned an answer, when I learned the melancholy cause of his silence relative to the first.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

But another man he loved she,—’ “Marry, ’tis done—a goodly piece of work, too, and wrought with expedition.
— from The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

[A; a12] pinch, pick off with the thumb and the forefinger.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

INTRODUCTION E Americans devour eagerly any piece of writing that purports to tell us the secret of success in life; yet how often we are disappointed to find nothing but commonplace statements, or receipts that we know by heart but never follow.
— from Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

But I may venture to say this; they separate themselves from their wives, and yield them to the embraces of others for a few oboles; they are incessantly occupied in plunder, or in games of chance; they put on armour, and fight with each other, with a senseless and furious ardour, and not with a prudent, regulated valour; expose all they possess as the prize for victory, without excepting the young brides who have given them the pleasures of paternity, or even their own lives, a treasure so dear and valuable to all other men, and for the preservation of which there is nothing they will not undertake.—Barbarians even, without letters, know and repeat these verses upon thee, Helen:—“It is just that both Greeks and Trojans should undergo long misfortunes for the woman whose beauty equals that of immortal goddesses.”
— from The History of the Crusades (vol. 3 of 3) by J. Fr. (Joseph Fr.) Michaud

There is a pretty picture of which the "Headless Woman" is the centre.
— from Bee: The Princess of the Dwarfs by Anatole France

And, in fact, a short time previously he had said in a public meeting that a man who had punished others without trial ought not himself to be allowed the privilege of speech.
— from The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Joe's musical performances were always pyrotechnic; except on particular occasions when the sad soul that underlay the merriment came uppermost, and then they were mournful enough to tempt suicide.
— from Shoulder-Straps: A Novel of New York and the Army, 1862 by Henry Morford

A chief of the State whose sole virtue is his powerlessness, and who is denounced as criminal if it should get wind that he ventures to act, or even merely to think; ministers subject to a foolish Parliament, which is believed to be corrupt, and whose members, more ignorant every day, were chosen, moulded, nominated in the godless clubs of the freemasons to carry out an evil policy of which they are yet incapable, and which is surpassed by the evils brought about through their turbulent inaction; an incessantly increasing bureaucracy, vast, greedy, and mischievous, in which the Republic believes she is securing for herself a band of supporters, but 158 which she is nourishing to her own ruin; a magistracy recruited without law or equity, and too often canvassed by the government not to be suspected of obsequiousness; an army, nay, a whole nation, unceasingly pervaded by the fatal spirit of independence and equality, is poured back straightway into town and country, a whole community, depraved by barrack life, unfitted for arts and trades, and disliking all labour; an educational body which has a mission to teach atheism and immorality; a diplomatic corps which fails in readiness and authority, and which leaves the care of our foreign policy and the conclusion of our alliances to innkeepers, shopkeepers and journalists; in a word, all the powers, the legislative and the executive, the judicial, the military, and the civil, intermingled, confused, destroyed one by the other; a farcical rule which, in its destructive weakness, has given to society the two most powerful instruments of death that wickedness ever devised: divorce and malthusianism.
— from The Elm-tree on the Mall by Anatole France

These last herds may be stock cattle, pushing out west to new ranges; but I don't like the outlook.
— from The Log of a Cowboy: A Narrative of the Old Trail Days by Andy Adams

It is broken occasionally by small farms and abandoned clearings, and two roads,​—​the Orange Plank Road and the turnpike, which are cut at right angles by the Germania road,​—​in general course nearly parallel, open ways through it between Fredericksburg and the Court-House.
— from Lee and Longstreet at High Tide: Gettysburg in the Light of the Official Records by Helen Dortch Longstreet

As they discoursed, two youths entered the hall bearing a spear of mighty size, from the point of which three streams of blood dropped upon the ground, and all the company when they saw this began wailing and lamenting with a great outcry, but the lord took no notice and did not break off his discourse with Peredur.
— from Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race by T. W. (Thomas William) Rolleston

As yet, the applause came from their own party of women; though now and then one of the old men, sitting under the shade of a sycamore, would take his pipe out of his mouth to spit, and, before beginning again to send up the softly curling white wreaths of smoke, he would condescend on a short, deep laugh and a “Well done, Maggie!”
— from Mrs. Gaskell by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

" To other ears, with perhaps equal though opposite bias, glad confidence in a promise, of which the incipient fulfilment was being experienced, sounds in the psalm.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Psalms, Vol. 3 Psalms XC.-CL. by Alexander Maclaren