Murders in the open streets, it is true, had become scandalously frequent, mostly, it was said, prompted { 59} by private vengeance, and rarely punished; but the killing of Villa Mediana in the circumstances related set tongues wagging in a way that had not been equalled since that luckless secretary of Don Juan of Austria, Escovedo, had been assassinated nearly fifty years before by the secret orders of Philip II.
— from The Court of Philip IV.: Spain in Decadence by Martin A. S. (Martin Andrew Sharp) Hume

I have no particular view as regards politics; but if the devil ever got so completely the upper hand in this world as to leave it without a class to serve and obey us , their natural superiors, I'd decline to stay here any longer, and descend by the help of a bullet to lower regions, where I should have better society."
— from A Crooked Path: A Novel by Mrs. Alexander

Quōrum 7 clāmor cum 8 penitus in rēgiam pervēnisset, vocātī ad rēgem pergunt.
— from Selections from Viri Romae by C. F. L'Homond

[Pg v] Allan Ramsey pinx.—Robert Grace Sculp.—David Hume ADVERTISEMENT.
— from Philosophical Works, v. 1 (of 4) Including All the Essays, and Exhibiting the More Important Alterations and Corrections in the Successive Editions Published by the Author by David Hume

Hwile dhus notthing but s can dubbel soft c , or sibbilantly shut dhe preceding vowel; and render precious , or vicious , hwat dhey ar; but prescious , or viscious ; dhe sibbilants direct simpel figgure may not onely becom, in dhe ostensibel physic , visit , and vision , a dubbel depressive; in dhe real phyzzic , vizzit , and vizzion ; but work equal wonders, in polysyllables ov anny extension; pretending, in dhe verry name, to' paint pollysyllabels .
— from A Minniature ov Inglish Orthoggraphy by James Elphinston

Miss Van Tromp, unlike her sister, Mrs. Taunton, was petite, vivacious and rather pretty, but somewhat in awe of her brother's genius.
— from Perkins, the Fakeer: A Travesty on Reincarnation His wonderful workings in the cases of "When Reginald was Caroline", "How Chopin came to Remsen", and "Clarissa's troublesome baby" by Edward S. (Edward Sims) Van Zile

Shortly before one o’clock on the 5th, the Persian videttes and reconnoitring parties were made out; but they very rapidly retreated.
— from Our Soldiers: Gallant Deeds of the British Army during Victoria's Reign by William Henry Giles Kingston

His own problems loom so large that he becomes especially afflicted with what Cabot calls "the sin of impersonality"; or to use Page 382 President King's words, he lacks that "reverence for personality" which enables one to see people vividly as real persons and not as street-car conductors or servants or merely as members of one's family.
— from Outwitting Our Nerves: A Primer of Psychotherapy by Josephine A. (Josephine Agnes) Jackson