In reality, he could say this with ten times more reason and confidence than Cato, or any other proud fellow among the antient or modern heroes; for he was not only devoid of fear, but might be considered as a faithful labourer, when at the end of harvest he is summoned to receive his reward at the hands of a bountiful master.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Every offended baron buckled on his armour, and sought redress at the head of his vassals.
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

After thus eradicating the remains of the schism, the synod of Constance proceeded with slow and cautious steps to elect the sovereign of Rome and the head of the church.
— 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 western, or Livingston Range, rises at the head of Lake McDonald, becomes the front range beyond the international line, and runs northwestward to Alaska.
— from Glacier National Park [Montana] by United States. Department of the Interior

Thy bounteous forehead was not fann'd With breezes from our oaken glades, But thou wert nursed in some delicious land Of lavish lights, and floating shades: And flattering thy childish thought The oriental fairy brought, At the moment of thy birth, From old well-heads of haunted rills, And the hearts of purple hills, And shadow'd coves on a sunny shore, The choicest wealth of all the earth, Jewel or shell, or starry ore, To deck thy cradle, Eleänore.
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

“I have often read, and read again, the history of Mithridates,” said Madame de Villefort in a
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

A place in the Great Smoky range about the head of Noland creek, in Swain county, North Carolina.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Every schoolboy knows that circumstances do give clients to lawyers and patients to physicians; place ordinary clergymen in extraordinary pulpits; place sons of the rich at the head of immense corporations and large houses, when they have very ordinary ability and scarcely any experience, while poor young men with unusual ability, good education, good character, and large experience, often have to fight their way for years to obtain even very mediocre situations; that there are thousands of young men of superior ability, both in the city and in the country, who seem to be compelled by circumstances to remain in very ordinary positions for small pay, when others about them are raised by money or family influence into desirable places.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

About night I found the train, and met with a cordial reception at the hands of Lieutenants Leech and Duxberry.
— from Reminiscences of Confederate Service, 1861-1865 by Francis Warrington Dawson

175 The orders themselves, however, would be received at the headquarters of the different corps or divisions, and might, possibly, be even now in existence.
— from The Campaign of Waterloo: A Military History Third Edition by John Codman Ropes

A despot who should subject the Americans and their former slaves to the same yoke, might perhaps succeed in commingling their races; but as long as the American democracy remains at the head of affairs, no one will undertake so difficult a task; and it may be foreseen that the freer the white population of the United States becomes, the more isolated will it remain.{253} I have previously observed that the mixed race is the true bond of union between the Europeans and the Indians; just so the mulattoes are the true means of transition between the white and the negro; so that wherever mulattoes abound, the intermixture of the two races is not impossible.
— from American Institutions and Their Influence by Alexis de Tocqueville

The foreign representatives and the heads of the Government were in attendance.
— from Korea's Fight for Freedom by Fred A. (Fred Arthur) McKenzie

She stood still, and as I touched her hand I started—it was cold and rigid as the hand of a corpse.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXV, No. 3, September 1849 by Various

Radiates approach the homogeneity of plants; they appear to lack a distinct nervous system and sense organs, and the lowest of them show only a homogeneous pulp which is mobile and sensitive.
— from Form and Function: A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell

HOME Upon the arrival of the Earl of Peterborough at Valencia he was received with the profoundest sympathy and respect by the people, who were filled with indignation at the treatment which the man whose daring and genius had freed Catalonia and Valencia of the French had received at the hands of their ungrateful monarch.
— from The Bravest of the Brave — or, with Peterborough in Spain by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Woodfall decided that it was a good place in which to spend a few days for rest, repairs, and the hunting of game, as they wanted other fresh meat besides that of the buffalo.
— from The Quest of the Four: A Story of the Comanches and Buena Vista by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

He is calm, serious, spirited, resolute; and the hearts of his men are fired by his words.
— from The Drummer Boy by J. T. (John Townsend) Trowbridge