The representation of minorities should be provided for in the same manner as in the national Parliament, and there are the same strong reasons for plurality of votes; only there is not so decisive an objection, in the inferior as in the higher body, to making the plural voting depend (as in some of the local elections of our own country) on a mere money qualification; for the honest and frugal dispensation of money forms so much larger a part of the business of the local than of the national body, that there is more justice as well as policy in allowing a greater proportional influence to those who have a larger money interest at stake.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

Sometimes these letters bore the postmark of places very distant, and arrived without signatures, and enveloped in allegorical allusions.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

—¡ Por vida de...!
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

It had occurred to him that he must not any longer defer his intention of matrimony, and he had reflected that in taking a wife, a man of good position should expect and carefully choose a blooming young lady—the younger the better, because more educable and submissive—of a rank equal to his own, of religious principles, virtuous disposition, and good understanding.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Sphinx is said to propose various difficult questions and riddles to men, which she received from the Muses; and these questions, so long as they remain with the Muses, may very well be unaccompanied with severity, for while there is no other end of contemplation and inquiry but that of knowledge alone, the understanding is not oppressed, or driven to straits and difficulties, but expatiates and ranges at large, and even receives a degree of pleasure from doubt and variety; but after the Muses have given over their riddles to Sphinx, that is, to practice, which urges and impels to action, choice, and determination, then it is that they become torturing, severe, and trying,
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

Pan Voyevoda , duet in Act II 145 .
— from Principles of Orchestration, with Musical Examples Drawn from His Own Works by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov

N.B. I should wish the theodolite and circles to be packed very differently from the usual way, as many instruments are seriously injured by the box warping either inwards or outwards; in the one case pressing too much on the instruments, and in the other, which is worse, leaving them too much space, so that they shake about whenever the box is carried.
— from Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia From Melbourne To The Gulf Of Carpentaria by William John Wills

The popular vote decided it.
— from Questionable Amusements and Worthy Substitutes by J. M. Judy

Veterum, Polydore Virgil de Invent.
— from A Christian Directory, Part 3: Christian Ecclesiastics by Richard Baxter

Then, quite suddenly, a pale violet disc in front of them ballooned out of nowhere and slid off to one side.
— from Islands of Space by Campbell, John W., Jr. (John Wood)

This would have made a great deal of noise, and produced very disagreeable effects.
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 2 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson

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— from The Early Oxford Press A Bibliography of Printing and Publishing at Oxford, '1468'-1640; With Notes, Appendixes and Illustrations by Falconer Madan

After this period various dissensions arose in the Boer camp between Pretorius, who styled himself "Chief of the whole united emigrant force," and Potgieter, who looked upon himself somewhat in the light of a rival.
— from South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 8) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899 by Louis Creswicke

Meppy id vas pedder ve don'd shday.
— from Motor Matt's Clue; or, The Phantom Auto by Stanley R. Matthews

This made our progress very difficult, but I shortly became satisfied that there were only a few of the enemy within the works, so moving a battalion of cavalry that had joined me the day before down the road as rapidly as the obstructions would permit, the Confederate pickets quickly departed, and we gained possession of the town.
— from Project Gutenberg Edition of The Memoirs of Four Civil War Generals by John Alexander Logan