La tiranía detesta a los iluminadores de conciencias y misioneros de la verdad, y cuando no halla medio para silenciarlos, reduciéndolos a la impotencia, los persigue, los insulta, haciéndolos vivir errantes como los israelitas a través del desierto melancólico, de nostálgicos ideales.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

When, however, they gained the flattened surface of the mountain-top, and approached the eastern precipice, she recognized the spot to which she had once before been led under the more friendly auspices of the scout.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

One consolatory reflection upon her conduct had occurred to her at the first moment of the final rupture, and when now she recalled all the past, she remembered that one reflection.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

After the performances she rode to her room with Lola, in a carriage provided.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

In China during 1943-44, the most minor tactical request for a leaflet had to be channeled all the way back to Theater Forward Echelon Headquarters, because the political situation was so touchy, the Chinese language so difficult, printing facilities so scarce, and qualified personnel so rare that there was no point in having channels cut across lower down.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

Every eye and every passion were directed to the supreme magistrate, who possessed the arms and treasure of the state; whilst the senate, neither elected by the people, nor guarded by military force, nor animated by public spirit, rested its declining authority on the frail and crumbling basis of ancient opinion.
— 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

The regular blows of the pick still resounded through the cavern.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

" "Was ever anything so provoking?" said Robert.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

"[1] The band of Devenipiatissa, B.C. 307, was called the talawachara , from the multitude of drums[2]: chank-shells contributed to swell the din, both in warfare[3] and in religious worship[4]; choristers added their voices[5]; and the triumph of effect consisted in "the united crash of every description, vocal as well as instrumental"[6] Although "a full band" is explained in the Mahawanso to imply a combination of "all descriptions of musicians," no flutes or wind instruments are particularised, and the incidental mention of a harp only occurs in the reign of Dutugaimunu, B.C. 161.[7] JOINVILLE says, that certain musical principles were acknowledged in Ceylon at an early period, and that pieces are to be seen in some of the old Pali books in regular notation; the gamut, which was termed septa souere , consisting of seven notes, and expressed not by signs, but in letters equivalent to their pronunciation, sa, ri, ga, m
— from Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 by Tennent, James Emerson, Sir

“He is rather nice, though he is a Pole,” said Rastignac.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

The Premier's defence of, and, we may perhaps say, recomposition of his Paris oration before the House of Commons has appeased criticism without entirely convincing those who have been anxious to know how the Allied Council would work, and what would be the relations between the Council's military advisers and the existing General Staff of the countries concerned.
— from Mr. Punch's History of the Great War by Charles L. (Charles Larcom) Graves

Take one of the class at a lecture on the higher branches of a science of which he has not so much 75 as thoroughly mastered the roots, and wherein this higher analysis offers certain new and perhaps startling results.
— from The Girl of the Period, and Other Social Essays, Vol. 2 (of 2) by E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn) Linton

Here one had a little fragrant sanctum all one's own, carpeted with pine needles, green and brown, and arched over by ceiling and walls of thick branches, from out of which peeped startled robins, who soon, finding that no harm was meant them, went on with their song.
— from Lippincott's Magazine, September, 1885 by Various

3. Curiosity, phenomenon, spectacle, rarity, sight.
— from A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous or Parallel Expressions Designed as a Practical Guide to Aptness and Variety of Phraseology by Richard Soule

The savages seemed to be entranced by the singular, and to most of them unaccountable circumstance of the earth's giving forth the scent of fresh whiskey, in a place so retired and unknown.
— from Oak Openings by James Fenimore Cooper