The Grand Duke of Baden remained ever constant and loyal, but he could do nothing.
— from The Jewish State by Theodor Herzl

The women who are under pollution come from the middle room, each carrying a lighted wick, walk thrice round the pot, and throw the wicks into the water.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

And so warmly has he painted what he forcibly felt, that, interesting the heart and inflaming the imagination of his readers; in proportion to the strength of their fancy, they imagine that their understanding is convinced, when they only sympathize with a poetic writer, who skilfully exhibits the objects of sense, most voluptuously shadowed, or gracefully veiled; and thus making us feel, whilst dreaming that we reason, erroneous conclusions are left in the mind.
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

In the republics of ancient Greece and Rome, each citizen, as long as he remained at home, seems to have practised his exercises, either separately and independently, or with such of his equals as he liked best; and not to have been attached to any particular body of troops, till he was actually called upon to take the field.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

The parish clerk and registrar even came at last to feel a sort of friendship for Gilliatt.
— from Toilers of the Sea by Victor Hugo

( Roger enters, carrying a lamp.
— from Semiramis, and Other Plays by Olive Tilford Dargan

Charm dropped from her like a rich, enveloping cloak, and left only the pitiful little nude personality, a bundle of childish egotisms and shallow pretences.
— from The Story of Julia Page by Kathleen Thompson Norris

At Chamonix the rule is that the guides are employed in turn, so that the absurd spectacle is possible of a man of real experience carrying a lady's shawl across the Mer de Glace, while a guide, who is little better than a porter, sets out to climb the Aiguille de Dru!
— from True Tales of Mountain Adventures: For Non-Climbers Young and Old by Le Blond, Aubrey, Mrs.

There was West, who had been requested to leave Haileybury owing to his habit of borrowing horses and attending meets in the neighbourhood, the same being always out of bounds and necessitating a complete disregard of the rules respecting evening chapel and lock-up.
— from Psmith in the City by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

The child, Dhuleep Singh, the nominal head of the Punjaub, was too young to reckon as an active factor in the coming, or rather existing, complications at Lahore.
— from The Story of the British Army by Charles Cooper King

"What the magazines have omitted to point out is that by rejecting every contribution at least once, the editors are doing more for Uncle Sam's first-class mail business than through their advertising pages.
— from Post-Impressions: An Irresponsible Chronicle by Simeon Strunsky