In the fulfilment of the rights of sovereignty thus acquired and the responsible obligations of government thus assumed, the actual occupation and administration of the entire group of the Philippine Islands becomes immediately necessary, and the military government heretofore maintained by the United States in the city, harbor, and bay of Manila is to be extended with all possible despatch to the whole of the ceded territory .
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

The will to be responsible for ones self (the loss of this is a sign of the decline of autonomy); the ability to defend and to attack, even in spiritual matters; the power of command; the sense of reverence, of subservience, the ability to be silent, great passion, great achievements, tragedy and cheerfulness.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The Holy Fair^1 A robe of seeming truth and trust Hid crafty Observation; And secret hung, with poison'd crust, The dirk of Defamation: [Footnote 1: “Holy Fair” is a common phrase in the west of Scotland for a sacramental occasion.—R. B.] A mask that like the gorget show'd, Dye-varying on the pigeon; And for a mantle large and broad, He wrapt him in Religion.
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

These have to desires very nearly the relation of substance to attribute, or, in a different figure, of genus to species.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

In ancient Greece, when the priests were engaged in the rites of sacrifice, they and the people always walked three times around the altar while chanting a sacred hymn or ode.
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

n rope or string tied all around s.t. gwatsi n 1 petty lie.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

This body at length ousted my adored students from the guard-rooms of the town gates, and we no longer had the right of stopping travellers and inspecting their passes.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

Ought I to make the country my resort, Or seek the army, or to rise at court?
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

In the judicial records of Scotland there are many instances given of the application of the boot, and some of the details are of the most revolting character.
— from The History of the Devils of Loudun, Volumes I-III The Alleged Possession of the Ursuline Nuns, and the Trial and Execution of Urbain Grandier, Told by an Eye-witness by Des Niau

Through the stems, as always, the girdling blues of the plain, and in their faces a gay and buoyant breeze, speaking rather of spring than autumn.
— from Marcella by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

One man may commit different sorts of sins from another; one may lie, another may steal: one may be proud, another may be covetous: but all these different sins come from the same root of sin; they are all flowers of the same plant.
— from Sermons for the Times by Charles Kingsley

[Pg 8] At the time our story begins, Frank and his cousin had lived two months in Southern California, where Mr. Winters owned a farm—or, in the language of that country, a rancho —of sixteen thousand acres.
— from Frank among the Rancheros by Harry Castlemon

They gleamed and rolled in the evening sun, over a row of shining teeth, as their owner squatted down before me, liberating one after another from little bags and baskets an amazing multitude of snakes, which he fetched in batches from the interior of the tomb, till the very ground seemed alive with them.
— from A Draught of the Blue, together with An Essence of the Dusk by F. W. (Francis William) Bain

"I will remember," said the priest, "that however desirous the Viscount Fordingbridge may be to espouse the cause of the House of Hanover, it is not in his power to do so, so long as there remains one Stuart to assert a claim to the throne of his ancestors.
— from Denounced: A Romance by John Bloundelle-Burton

We had just settled down into a sullen resignation to our fate, and some of the passengers had been trying to amuse themselves by making unsuccessful shots at the large sea birds that were flying around us, when a discovery was made which caused great excitement among us, and raised our spirits to a high degree.
— from Round Cape Horn Voyage of the Passenger-Ship James W. Paige, from Maine to California in the Year 1852 by J. (Joseph) Lamson

In this genus there is along each ramus of the mandible a median row of large teeth placed in perfect sockets, and two irregular lateral rows of small teeth ankylosed to the jaw.
— from The Vertebrate Skeleton by Sidney H. (Sidney Hugh) Reynolds

It was a frightful mouth, armed with huge rows of sawlike teeth, and although they knew the brute was dead the boys could not repress a shudder as they looked at it.
— from The Rushton Boys at Treasure Cove; Or, The Missing Chest of Gold by Spencer Davenport