Convene the tribes the murderous plot reveal, And to their power to save his race appeal."
— from The Odyssey by Homer

Mr. Johnson and I supped in a private room at the Turk's Head coffee-house, in the Strand.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

[1138] So the custom of the presentation remains and the question asked [Pg 336] of the chief seems to date back to an epoch when the ritual consumption was practised.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

We accordingly set out the next day, and got to Spa in good time, our company consisting of the princess, the prothonotary, Roniker, and the Tomatis.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

for were they not paying rent all the time, and living in a most horrible way besides?
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

But besides all these magistrates there is one who is supreme over them all, who very often has in his own power the disposal of the public revenue and taxes; who presides over the people when the supreme power is in them; for there must be some magistrate who has a power to summon them together, and to preside as head of the state.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

His father, Alexander Du Bois, cloaked under a stern, austere demeanor a passionate revolt against the world.
— from Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

The Albanian and Iberian gates excluded the horsemen of Scythia from the shortest and most practicable roads, and the whole front of the mountains was covered by the rampart of Gog and Magog, the long wall which has excited the curiosity of an Arabian caliph 140 and a Russian conqueror.
— 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

So I judged they had our gang in a pretty tight place right at the outstart.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Strange as it may seem, an aerial hint of his personality in the far distance always awakens in my mind pleasant remembrances and tender reflections.
— from A Mortal Antipathy by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Pg 112 known traveller, Sir John Carr, may supply us with, at least, a harmless specimen:— "Ye, who would more of Spain and Spaniards know, Sights, saints, antiques, arts, anecdotes, and war, Go, hie ye hence to Paternoster Row,— Are they not written in the boke of Carr?
— from Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 2 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore

I do purpose to start to-morrow for the Massachusetts, going by boat to the Piscataqua River, and thence by horse to Newbury.
— from Margaret Smith's Journal Part 1 from Volume V of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier by John Greenleaf Whittier

When they meet together, and the world sits down at an assembly, or in a court of law, or a theatre, or a camp, or in any other popular resort, and there is a great uproar, and they praise some things which are being said or done, and blame other things, equally exaggerating both, shouting and clapping their hands
— from The Republic by Plato

But for practical reasons, again, the causality of the man in himself must be thought of as entirely different from, and opposed to, the mechanical causality of the sense world.
— from History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg

Well, I'll plunge into the pleasure right away, though there's some business in it, too.
— from The Gay Adventure: A Romance by Richard Bird

" The wish passed round, and the glasses clashed together till they rang again; while before the town-gate the mail coach stopped with the twelve strange passengers.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

'It is a question whether we ought to sit still and see a firebrand flashed in our faces,' General Pierson remarked as the curtain fell.
— from Vittoria — Volume 4 by George Meredith

The description of Leno fabrics given in a United States Government publication reads: "A term frequently used where various weaves or combination of weaves also have warp threads crossing over one or more warp threads instead of lying parallel to one another throughout the fabric.
— from Piece Goods Manual Fabrics described; textile, knit goods, weaving terms, etc., explained; with notes on the classification of samples. by A. E. Blanco

Paul reported also that he had seen a vessel a long way to leeward, but that she appeared to be beating up towards the island.
— from Paul Gerrard, the Cabin Boy by William Henry Giles Kingston