Mother Society, from tribune and gallery, growls loud that he ought to do it;—remarks, however, in a splenetic manner that 'the Monsieurs of the Palais Royal' are calling, Long-life to this General.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

[6-3] aquel día a las órdenes del segundo de parrón , regresaron al campamento, llevando consigo, maniatado como pintan a nuestro Padre Jesús Nazareno, a un pobre segador de 15 cuarenta a cincuenta años, cuyas lamentaciones partían el alma.
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

19. —Diagram of Pholas (right) and Chætopterus (left) to show distribution of luminous areas ( after Panceri ).
— from The Nature of Animal Light by E. Newton (Edmund Newton) Harvey

The King of England’s envoys met in most of the Flemish cities with a favor which was real, but intermingled with prudent reservations, and Count Louis of Flanders remained ever closely allied with the King of France, “for he was right French and loyal,” says Froissart, “and with good reason, for he had the King of France almost alone to thank for restoring him to his country by force.” Whilst, by both sides, preparations were thus being made on the Continent for war, the question which was to make it burst forth was being decided in England.
— from A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 2 by François Guizot

The ignorant, light-hearted Canadian peasant knew nothing and cared nothing about popular rights and civil liberties.
— from The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada by Francis Parkman

—It is difficult in brief space to define minutely the province of each court The following accounts, therefore, give only a general description:— The circuit courts of appeals are given final jurisdiction in certain cases appealed to them from the district courts, such as those arising under the patent, revenue, and criminal laws, as well as admiralty and other cases in which the opposing parties to a suit are an alien and a citizen, or are citizens of different States.
— from Our Government: Local, State, and National: Idaho Edition by James Alton James

The local leadership, like the legendary tyranny of ancient Rome, demolished everything which tried to rise above the obedient, passive, resigned and common level.
— from The Social Evolution of the Argentine Republic by Ernesto Quesada

Ask I say, the learned and the unlearned, ask philosophy, reason, and common languages, whether it is not true that it [ causa sine qua non ] must precede." (377.)
— from Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church by F. (Friedrich) Bente

'We will and command, that our said cousin the duke of Burgundy do punctually restore all castles, lands, or fiefs that he may have taken from our vassals and subjects, as well as from his own, on account of services performed to us or neglected to have been done to him, and that he order away from him all who may be inclined to disturb the lawful owner in the possession of them.
— from The Chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet, Vol. 04 [of 13] Containing an account of the cruel civil wars between the houses of Orleans and Burgundy, of the possession of Paris and Normandy by the English, their expulsion thence, and of other memorable events that happened in the kingdom of France, as well as in other countries by Enguerrand de Monstrelet

We know who these men really were—a strong, resolute [Pg 155] race, passionate and proud, rough and cruel, living by open robbery, yet capable of deathless devotion, faithful to their word, hating all cowards and traitors to the death; not without a certain respect and admiration for their likes across the line, fond of jest and song, equal on occasion to a certain rude eloquence; and, before all, the most turbulent and troublesome.
— from The Law's Lumber Room (Second Series) by Francis Watt

It was, too, about this time that he heard of the death of his favourite dog—an incident to which I have previously referred as coming like a blow of fate in the midst of all his anxiety.
— from With Zola in England: A Story of Exile by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly