The treaty seems to have had little effect in preventing Indian hostilities, probably because the intruders still remained upon the Indian lands, and raiding still continued.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

The book attributed to Longinus will not have missed xxv its mark if it reminds us that, in literature at least, for conscience there is yet a place, possibly even a reward, though that is unessential.
— from On the Sublime by active 1st century Longinus

As soon as she got into the room, and saw the wardrobe with the looking-glass in the door, she ran up to it, like a child does when it sees its mother.
— from The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 4 by Guy de Maupassant

Now, it is a fact, proved by the history both of true and of false religions; so powerful a means of attracting respect and esteem has not remained unknown to imposture: licentiousness and corruption, desirous of making their fortunes in the world, have more than once felt the imperious necessity of disguising themselves under the mantle of austerity and purity.
— from Protestantism and Catholicity compared in their effects on the civilization of Europe by Jaime Luciano Balmes

This rather breathless old barn was the principal theater of Brazil under the monarchy, and still retains unchanged the imperial loge, a whole furnished apartment in Louis Philippe style.
— from Working North from Patagonia Being the Narrative of a Journey, Earned on the Way, Through Southern and Eastern South America by Harry Alverson Franck

He who relies upon them is like a man who gives way to pride and triumph because he has reached the first wayside station on the peaks he has set out to climb.
— from Letters That Have Helped Me by Julia Wharton Lewis Campbell Ver Planck Keightley

If my turn ever comes to face a Gatling gun I hope to march right up to it like a little man—but lorgnettes?
— from Homeburg Memories by George Fitch

I lifted some of them, and heard something rattle underneath: then I looked, and found that old teapot, hidden away under a great beam.
— from Five Mice in a Mouse-trap, by the Man in the Moon. by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

The one who is doing the reading usually throws in little advance predictions of his own when the news is slow in coming, with the result that those in the back get the impression that the team has at least a "varied attack," effecting at times a field goal and a forward pass in the same play.
— from Of All Things by Robert Benchley

The bark is echoed from member to member of the injured community, until the whole pack is roused, and rushes upon the intruder like a horde of savages, biting and worrying him beyond the bounds he transgressed in an evil hour.
— from Constantinople, painted by Warwick Goble, described by Alexander Van Millingen by Alexander Van Millingen