In a sprawling and explanatory style has been traced out the idea that government is ultimately coercion, that coercion must mean cold definitions as well as cruel consequences, and that therefore there is something to be said for the old human habit of keeping one-half of humanity out of so harsh and dirty a business.
— from What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

( See Hermann and Dorothea ( also by Goethe ), Buch Kalliope. )
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

See Hales, Alexander de. Alexander, Boyd, British explorer and naturalist, born in 1873.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

And when he was mounted upon his horse, he overtook this strong knight, and bade him turn, and the other smote Sir Lionel so hard that horse and man he bare to the earth, and so he alighted down and bound him fast, and threw him overthwart his own horse, and so he served them all four, and rode with them away to his own castle.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

Ah, I have suffered, suffered, suffered, here in Paris, but never mind—the time is coming when I shall have a dark and bloody revenge.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

The father asked me my name and address, and promised I should have a decisive answer by dinner-time, if I dined at home.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

“If you do throw us overboard, I only hope that you will provide us with sticks, or some weapons with which to defend ourselves against the sharks,” said I. “You are a brave boy,” said he, “and deserve a better fate; but it cannot be helped.”
— from Salt Water: The Sea Life and Adventures of Neil D'Arcy the Midshipman by William Henry Giles Kingston

Along Clay Street from the judge's house to the main part of town, where the business houses and the stores centered, was a mile walk nearly, up a fairly steepish hill and down again, but shaded well all the way by water maples and silver-leaf trees.
— from Back Home: Being the Narrative of Judge Priest and His People by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

He now made a start from the shepherds’ hut, and discovered as before, by sight and smell, the tracks of two men’s feet, travelling northward.
— from Mysteries of Police and Crime, Vol. 1 (of 3) by Arthur Griffiths

There was a strong wind blowing from the southwest, and before the engines could reach the spot, half a dozen adjoining buildings were wrapped in flames.
— from Peculiarities of American Cities by Willard W. Glazier

Following them sedately came a beautiful black mare, stepping high and daintily, as became a lady of distinction.
— from Princess by M. G. (Mary Greenway) McClelland

‘This is the man,’ said he, ‘as drunk as Belial.
— from The Wrong Box by Robert Louis Stevenson

It could simply be a question of time when so human and discerning a bride would come to his arms without a qualm.
— from The Undercurrent by Robert Grant