Revenues and Rights of the Crown.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

These, indeed, are but rags and remnants of persecution, and may be thought to be not so much an indication of the wish to persecute, as an example of that very frequent infirmity of English minds, which makes them take a preposterous pleasure in the assertion of a bad principle, when they are no longer bad enough to desire to carry it really into practice.
— from On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

Rows and rows of people who are seldom seen at any public function, whole families of those who are certain to be out of town on a holiday, crowded the place to overflowing.
— from Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington

He dreamed; but Arthur with a hundred spears Rode far, till o'er the illimitable reed, And many a glancing plash and sallowy isle, The wide-winged sunset of the misty marsh Glared on a huge machicolated tower That stood with open doors, whereout was rolled A roar of riot, as from men secure Amid their marshes, ruffians at their ease Among their harlot-brides, an evil song.
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

radikal a radical, one who wants to change the social structure radically, or for ideas to be radical.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

King Harald then was in a rage, and ran out in front of the array, and hewed down with both hands; so that neither helmet nor armour could withstand him, and all who were nearest gave way before him.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

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— from Macbeth by William Shakespeare

H2 anchor Pretence Of Inspiration It hath been also commonly taught, "That Faith and Sanctity, are not to be attained by Study and Reason, but by supernaturall Inspiration, or Infusion," which granted, I see not why any man should render a reason of his Faith; or why every Christian should not be also a Prophet; or why any man should take the Law of his Country, rather than his own Inspiration, for the rule of his action.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

At the same time he magnifies and brings into prominence the Nocturnal Council (which is in many respects a reflection of the Areopagus), but does not make it the governing body of the state.
— from Laws by Plato

Every trial I endured, every sacrifice I made for their sakes, drew them closer to my heart, and gave me fresh courage to beat back the dark waves that rolled and rolled over me in a seemingly endless night of storms.
— from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) Jacobs

And anon these knights made them ready, and rode over holts and hills, through forests and woods, till they came into a fair meadow full of fair flowers and grass; and there they rested them and their horses all that night.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

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— from Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy: Volume 1 (of 3) by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

For this reason the line, 'The lilies and languors of virtue for the roses and raptures of vice' seems all wrong to me.
— from Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man by Havelock Ellis

If you make the buy and at any time wish to sell out, I will take the herd and ranch at the same price you pay for it, so you will not run any risk of being tied up here if you wish to leave."
— from The Long Dim Trail by Forrestine C. (Forrestine Cooper) Hooker

Wing beating wing they closed in battle, whirling round and round one another above the palmetto thicket.
— from The Adventures of a Modest Man by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

"But look you, my son," persisted the good man, "this act hath rank as robbery of God!" "Nay, nay, good father, my master the king doth but deliver Him from the manifold temptations of too great wealth.
— from The Cynic's Word Book by Ambrose Bierce

During that time Jack wrote two letters to Ruth, and received one in return.
— from The Rover Boys in the Land of Luck; Or, Stirring Adventures in the Oil Fields by Edward Stratemeyer