"But by what I can make out, there's them says Bulstrode was for running away, for fear o' being found out, before now.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

The principles of heredity (may be recapitulated as follows): First of all, we find useful the principle of the unit-character.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Put the case now, that a man is accused of a capitall crime, and seeing the powers and malice of some enemy, and the frequent corruption and partiality of Judges, runneth away for feare of the event, and afterwards is taken, and brought to a legall triall, and maketh it sufficiently appear, he was not guilty of the crime, and being thereof acquitted, is neverthelesse condemned to lose his goods; this is a manifest condemnation of the Innocent.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

And, my lord, if it be properly considered, it were infinitely better to remain possessed by the whole legion of vulgar mistakes, than to reject some, and at the same time to retain a fondness for others altogether as absurd and irrational.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

To see him thus with his dauntless gesture, his handsome head, pale and calm, his fervent expression, his beard and his long chestnut hair, one seemed to behold the radiant and fulminating face of an angry Christ.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

1), and represents a figure found on an ancient coin of Apollonia.
— from Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism With an Essay on Baal Worship, on the Assyrian Sacred "Grove," and Other Allied Symbols by Thomas Inman

They are like products of natural forces which men unconsciously set in operation, or they are like the instinctive ways of animals, which are developed out of experience, which reach a final form of maximum adaptation to an interest, which are handed down by tradition and admit of no exception or variation, yet change to meet new conditions, still within the same limited methods, and without rational reflection or purpose.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Then the son of Saturn, compeller of the ocean deep, uttered thus: 'It is wholly right, O Cytherean, that thy trust should be in my realm, whence thou drawest birth; and I have deserved it: often have I allayed the rage and full fury of sky and sea.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

He came in contact with a clergyman of the Church of England, who led him to [336] accept Christ and Him crucified; after which he ever remained a faithful follower of the Lord Jesus, and a promoter of Christian work.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

The Marshal, 23 superior officers, with about 1,700 of the rank and file fell on the field, while all the artillery baggage and 12 stand of colours were taken: the Irish loss in killed and wounded did not exceed 800 men.
— from A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics - Volume 2 by Thomas D'Arcy McGee

Far down the Almonte, advancing over the level ground from the direction of the Madrid road, appeared four figures on foot, and the glitter of polished metal showed that they were armed men.
— from The Romance of War; or, The Highlanders in Spain, Volume 2 (of 3) by James Grant

I am very happy here, and so tired of the frivolous life I lead in town, that I have decided to try a better one," and Sophie's mirror reflected a face full of the sweetest content.
— from Kitty's Class Day and Other Stories by Louisa May Alcott

Episcopal Registers include many such documents, some being granted on special occasions, to make good losses by murrain, to enlarge premises, or to rebuild after fire, flood or invasion.
— from The Mediæval Hospitals of England by Rotha Mary Clay

[14] There is much more to be read on the subject and those who are interested in the question cannot do better than examine that very excellent little work of John Roche Ardill, Forgotten Facts of Irish History , [15] from which the foregoing pages are a quotation.
— from Wanderings in Ireland by Michael Myers Shoemaker

The wind, too, was beginning to rise, a few flakes of snow had begun to fall, and night and darkness were already settling down in the hollows and glens, and only on the hilltops did daylight remain.
— from The Cruise of the Snowbird: A Story of Arctic Adventure by Gordon Stables

His sermons are ethical in their matter from a Christian standpoint, carefully reasoned, and free from ornament, but fearless and uncompromising (1632-1704).
— from The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall

The matters referred to in Article K.1 shall be dealt with in compliance with the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms of 4 November 1950 and the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees of 28 July 1951 and having regard to the protection afforded by Member States to persons persecuted on political grounds.
— from The Treaty of the European Union, Maastricht Treaty, 7th February, 1992 by European Union