Various perceptions of victims on receiving a wound are remarkable, and I have persuaded a police surgeon of considerable learning and originality to collect and interpret his great mass of material.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

Rykov ate with a relish, and had been mixing little in the conversation, but at the mention of Warsaw he raised his head and said, with a Russian accent, and with a few slips of expression:— “Chamberlain!
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

The alferez went blind from rage and with a roar attempted to throw himself upon her, but she, with astonishing quickness, hit him across the face with the whip and ran hurriedly into an inner room, shutting and bolting the door violently behind her.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

Had ridden and won a race at the Grammont Races on 13th June, and was dead on the 16th.
— from The Waterloo Roll Call With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes by Charles Dalton

The wisdom of this employment of the money subscribed may perhaps be doubted, for it can only have confirmed the idea prevailing in some quarters that the Princess remained, and would always remain, an Englishwoman in all her feelings and sympathies.
— from The Empress Frederick: a memoir by Anonymous

Virginia is red and white, and red again,—true colors of the Confederacy.
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

Then the Lauda men and Kmita's forces surrounded the rearguard as with a ring, and a merciless slaughter began.
— from The Deluge: An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. Vol. 2 (of 2) by Henryk Sienkiewicz

Hence as he hath formally by absolute power suspended all laws made for the protection of our religion, so he may when he will dispense with all the laws made for its establishment; and those who approve the one by such an acceptance, cannot disallow the other, but must recognosce a power in the king to subvert all laws, rights, and liberties, which is contrary to reason as well as religion, and a clear breach of the national and solemn league and covenants.
— from A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Alexander Shields

The tyrannical measures adopted against the Roman Catholics in the early part of the reign of James the First, when the severe penal enactments against recusants were revived, and with additional rigour, and which led to the remarkable conspiracy about to be related, have been so forcibly and faithfully described by Doctor Lingard, [1] that the following extract from his history will form a fitting introduction to the present work.
— from Guy Fawkes; or, The Gunpowder Treason: An Historical Romance by William Harrison Ainsworth

An attempt to introduce representative assemblies was always resented, and the experiment restricted, by the jealousy of the citizens.
— from Vienna 1683 The History and Consequences of the Defeat of the Turks before Vienna, September 12, 1683, by John Sobieski, King of Poland, and Charles Leopold, Duke of Lorraine by Henry Elliot Malden

I have been burning to see you and have it out," said the man in a trembling voice; then, with a quick movement he removed a wig and revealed a young and pleasant face.
— from Five Thousand Dollars Reward by A. Frank Pinkerton

The safety of the army was never staked on one pitched battle, while small successes in trivial engagements, begun without risk and with a retreat at hand, taught the soldiers, demoralized by previous disasters, to think better of their own valour and the chances of victory.
— from Ancient Rome: The Lives of Great Men by Mary Agnes Hamilton

Going round the whole circle of human motives—love, ambition, interest, ease, pleasure, he had made accurate observation on his ward’s mind; and reversing the order, he went round another way, and repeated and corrected his observations.
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 09 by Maria Edgeworth