This at least may be said of the principal persons, and, among them, of the hero, who always contributes in some measure to the disaster in which he perishes.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

There were a great many people present, and among the musicians Holzbauer, Cannabich, Toeschi, &c. A quartet for the Indian Dutchman, that true benefactor of man, will soon be finished.
— from The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Crest: out of a ducal coronet or a plume of five ostrich feathers, the first two argent, the third per pale argent and gules, and the last two gules." Page 253 {253} CHAPTER XV FISH Heraldry has a system of "natural" history all its very own, and included in the comprehensive heraldic term of fish are dolphins, whales, and other creatures.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

On the table lay a dozen peeled potatoes, and a small pot was boiling on the fire, to receive their scanty and only daily meal.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

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— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

It is not easy, it has already been observed, to ascertain what are the average wages of labour, even in a particular place, and at a particular time.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

CHAPTER XII As the citizens in general are to eat at public tables in certain companies, and it is necessary that the walls should have bulwarks and towers in proper places and at proper distances, it is evident that it will be very necessary to have some of these in the towers; let the buildings for this purpose be made the ornaments of the walls.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

Without provocation, without opposition, the astonished English, living in profound peace, and, as they thought, full security, were massacred by their nearest neighbours, with whom they had long maintained a continued intercourse of kindness and good offices.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

La téléconférence, déjà mise en place par ATM (asynchronous transfer mode) entre les universités de Lausanne et Genève, va également s'étendre, exigeant elle aussi des moyens considérables et très sécurisés (par exemple pour les diagnostics médicaux à distance, voire la téléchirurgie).
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

The British necessarily had to send to the provinces to purchase provisions, and Anda caused their forage parties to be attacked, so that the war really continued, in spite of the news of peace, until January 30, 1764.
— from The Philippine Islands A Political, Geographical, Ethnographical, Social and Commercial History of the Philippine Archipelago, Embracing the Whole Period of Spanish Rule by Foreman, John, F.R.G.S.

The design of the dwelling was that of the double type, each section being about sixteen feet square and joined by what was known in pioneer phraseology as a “dog trot”—a narrow and somewhat open connecting passageway.
— from The Spirit Lake Massacre by Thomas Teakle

Rooms where violin and piano practice, at any hour that might suit his fancy, could disturb no one.
— from Solaris Farm: A Story of the Twentieth Century by Milan C. Edson

Mr. Gladstone is grave, sober, earnest, proud, passionate, and at times romantic to a rare degree.
— from Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 01 Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great by Elbert Hubbard

"Yes, darling; let them go;" so ran the strain: "Yes; let them go, gain, fashion, pleasure, power, And all the busy elves to whose domain Belongs the nether sphere, the fleeting hour.
— from Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 3 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

“He was that much on his guard; but into his step there came—though your poor old eyes could not see it, Louis—the ‘psychological pause,’ an absolute arrest of perhaps a fifth of a second; just as it would have done with you if the word ‘London’ had fallen on your ear in a distant land.
— from Max Carrados by Ernest Bramah

Thorpe and Rodger (1889), by heating 3PbF 2 or BiF 3 with phosphorus pentasulphide (and also by heating AsF 3 and PSCl 3 to 150°), obtained thiophosphoryl fluoride as a colourless, spontaneously inflammable gas (see further on, Note 74 bis , and Chapter XIX., Note 25 ).
— from The Principles of Chemistry, Volume II by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev

At every step you stumble and injure yourself—rocks, rugged stones, sharp points, peaks, angles, and little corners and big corners.
— from The son of Don Juan an original drama in 3 acts inspired by the reading of Ibsen's work entitled 'Gengangere' by José Echegaray

In ke-bau-diz-ze, which is an equivalent for raca , there is a personal pronominal prefix, and an objective pronominal suffix.
— from Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

Ah! how happy she might have been as the wife of a quiet, thoughtful man, who was not eaten with the fever of politics, who regarded political power as an ignominious farce, who estimated correctly what it was to be Minister—namely, to be the accused instead of the judge, to sit on the prisoner's bench.
— from The conquest of Rome by Matilde Serao