I do not beleive that the world can furnish an example of a river runing to the extent which the Missouri and Jefferson's rivers do through such a mountainous country and at the same time so navigable as they are.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Obedient to the will of his sovereign he showed himself to the soldiers in this unworthy disguise they resented his ignominy and their own; a shout of rebellion ran through the ranks; and the general accepted their oath of fidelity and vows of revenge.
— 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

Beaufort Republique Romaine, tom. i. p. 255—275.
— 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

It is only what we say about them, only the names we give them, our theories of their source and nature and remote relations, that may be true or not.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James

The Meuse appeared to me to wear a ruddy reflection, the neighboring isle, whose verdure I had admired, had for its subsoil a tomb: Fifteen hundred horses, and as many men, were buried there: thence the thick grass.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

To set forth in this place the economic system of a good government, I have often turned my eyes to that of this Republic, rejoicing to find in my own country an example of that wisdom and happiness which I should be glad to see prevail in every other.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Thou sublime and mighty name that dost embrace nothing charming or insinuating, but requirest submission, and yet seekest not to move the will by threatening aught that would arouse natural aversion or terror, but merely holdest forth a law which of itself finds entrance into the mind, and yet gains reluctant reverence (though not always obedience), a law before which all inclinations are dumb, even though they secretly counter-work it; what origin is there worthy of thee, and where is to be found the root of thy noble descent which proudly rejects all kindred with the inclinations; a root to be derived from which is the indispensable condition of the only worth which men can give themselves?
— from The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant

Sometimes in both Democratic and Republican States the progressives get control of the party locally and then the reactionaries recapture the same party in the same State; or this process is reversed.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

Soon as Kaikeyí, youngest queen, Thy coming to the town has seen, No doubt will then her mind oppress That Ráma roams the wilderness.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

H2 anchor CHAPTER XIX What Russian, reading the account of the last part of the campaign of 1812, has not experienced an uncomfortable feeling of regret, dissatisfaction, and perplexity?
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Moreover, the moral judgments which we pass on acts do not really relate to the event, but to the intention.
— from The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck

In one of our colonial municipalities, which of them I have forgotten, as I heard my story so long ago, a working furniture-maker, who had secured an order from the Mayor for his official chair, was observed to be at particular pains over its construction, and, on being asked the reason, replied that he intended some day to occupy it himself.
— from Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria by William Westgarth

On the other side of the La Bassée road, and in the angle which that road makes with the Richebourg road, the K.O.Y.L.I. were still standing firm with the East Surrey beyond them, but these last two regiments were not so hardly pressed, the main attack being always on the eastern side of the main La Bassée road.
— from The First Seven Divisions Being a Detailed Account of the Fighting from Mons to Ypres by Hamilton, Ernest, Lord

I told him that I would make him a present of it, but he resentfully replied that he was not a beggar.
— from The Colossus: A Novel by Opie Percival Read

What else can the prude anticipate, or reasonably require, than that she be an object of reproach, if not of ridicule, for obstinately adhering to a manner that must result in her perpetual singleness of life?
— from The Young Maiden by A. B. (Artemas Bowers) Muzzey

“I think he is a rascal,” remarked the earl.
— from East Lynne by Wood, Henry, Mrs.

He used to give a ludicrous account of a race he once ran with another youth, each having a lady seated on a pillion behind him; Mr. Reynolds reached the goal first, but when he looked round he found that he had lost his fair companion, who had fallen off in the race!
— from Industrial Biography: Iron Workers and Tool Makers by Samuel Smiles

Godliness means a right relation to things spiritual, cleanliness a right relation to things material.
— from Camping For Boys by H. W. (Henry William) Gibson