It should be noted, however, when one reads in masonic works of the "persecutions" to which Freemasonry has been subjected, that aggression was not confined only to the one side in the conflict; moreover, that the Freemasons at this period were divided amongst themselves and expressed with regard to opposing groups much the same suspicions that non-Masons expressed with regard to the Order as a whole.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

'I have no doubt you are, my friend,' replied the old gentleman: fixing his spectacles more firmly on his nose, and looking about him for the inkstand.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

It remains absolutely unanswerable (for our Reason) if we do not represent that original ground of things, as simple substance ; its property which has reference to the specific constitution of the forms of nature grounded thereon, viz.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

She drew me gently with her, and on rejoining the other guests we returned to the dining-room, where I made a small bank at faro for their amusement.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

But the rude tribes of Germany, alike destitute of both those valuable metals, were reduced slowly to acquire, by their unassisted strength, the possession of the one as well as the other.
— 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

Simoun, the evil genius of the Captain-General, the rich trader to whose house they had gone to buy unset gems, Simoun, who had received the Orenda girls with great courtesy and had paid them fine compliments!
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

So we returned to our gig, and resolving to have a good look at the city, got on board and started to row up stream.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

(See the account of the battle of Rossbach, Treatise on Grand Operations.)
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

Scarcely a quarter of the soldiers remain with the standards of their regiments, the others go off by themselves in different directions hoping to find food and escape discipline.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

There could be no concerted dash for the reason that one group of the attacking force might be delayed until after another had begun to fight.
— from Hopalong Cassidy by Clarence Edward Mulford

It revived the old grudge against his father for having estranged himself.
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume II. Indian Summer of a Forsyte In Chancery by John Galsworthy

The sinister motive in this discovery needs no comment, for it is obvious that it releases the Ottoman Government from the prohibition in the Koran, whereby Moslem may not fight against Moslem.
— from Crescent and Iron Cross by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

Florence was half hidden by the great yellow bulk of the Pitti palace, but Olive could see the slender, exquisite white and rose tower of Giotto, and the mellowed red of the cathedral’s dome against the faint purple of the hills beyond Fiesole, and she looked at them in preference to the contorted river gods and exuberant nymphs of the fountain in the royal courtyard close by.
— from Olive in Italy by Moray Dalton

My private grief for its loss would be a matter for my solitary digestion, were it not that the experience through which I have just passed is one so familiar to my fellow-countrymen that, in telling my own reflections and feelings, I am repeating those of great numbers of men and women who have had the misfortune to outlive their birthplace.
— from A Mortal Antipathy by Oliver Wendell Holmes

There seemed to Tarzan, now that he gave the matter thought, no reason in the world why he should have done the thing he did, and presently it occurred to him that he had acted almost involuntarily, just as he had acted when he had released the old Gomangani the previous evening.
— from Jungle Tales of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs

The Queen and her ladies, with all the rest who came from the boat, were instantly mounted; and holding aloof from the village, which was already alarmed by the firing from the castle, with Douglas acting as their guide, they soon reached the open ground and began to ride as fast as was consistent with keeping together in good order.
— from The Abbot by Walter Scott

Ragged tongues of green and blossoms extend for miles.
— from The Rocky Mountain Wonderland by Enos A. Mills