The weakness of the American colonial system has always lain in the fundamental unfitness of republican governmental machinery for boldly advocating and honestly enforcing doctrines which deny frankly and as a matter of course that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

My doubts—or to speak more correctly, my convictions—were confirmed by Miss Halcombe's language and manner when I saw her again later in the day.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

A day will be spent here, and leaving in the evening, the course will be taken towards Athens.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

Concerning the medicinal part, he that will satisfy himself at large (in this precedent of diet) and see all at once the whole cure and manner of it in every distinct species, let him consult with Gordonius, Valescus, with Prosper Calenius, lib.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Thence by coach, it raining hard, to Mrs. Jem, where I staid a while, and so home, and late in the night put up my things in a sea-chest that Mr. Sheply lent me, and so to bed. 15th.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

In one hand She held a Lamp, in the other a large Knife, and She seemed advancing towards the iron gates of the Hall.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

Mrs. Elliot described how they had gone swimming, and how, “since he always lived inland,” the great waves had tired him.
— from The Longest Journey by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

Ann Veronica sunned herself a little in this warmth.
— from Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

There comes a fleet of grimy coal schooners moving upward with the tide, their dingy sails hanging almost listless in the air; now they float, one by one, into the yellow glory of the sunshine which bars the river from shore to shore.
— from Out of the Hurly-Burly; Or, Life in an Odd Corner by Charles Heber Clark

L'Hôpital sent her a letter in these terms: "Do not allow a Prince of the Blood to be killed by a committee, or you will soon be carried off yourself."
— from The Works of Honoré de Balzac: About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita, and Other Stories by Honoré de Balzac

The sympathetic reader will probably not fail to discern something of the sense of ‘a spirit home at last’ in the warm appreciation of the higher mysticism, and of Tagore. ...
— from The Book Review Digest, Volume 13, 1917 Thirteenth Annual Cumulation Reviews of 1917 Books by Various

“I will go,” said he, “and live in the north, where I shall see but four persons, and when you look that way you will see me.”
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXV, No. 6, December 1849 by Various

The angel shewed her a land in the west part of the world.
— from History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. Vol. II. by James Anthony Froude

The charitable office of his kind nephew Who with his pilfering purloin'd from me, Has set him at liberty; if this may be suffer'd, I'll have no eyes to see.
— from A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 12 by Robert Dodsley

Inferences of a constitutional sort are hardly warranted by the character of our evidence regarding this quarrel, but the facts which we know seem to imply that even so powerful and arbitrary a king as William Rufus could not carry out a matter on which his heart was so set as this without some pretence of legal right to support him, at least in the case of so high a subject as the Archbishop of Canterbury; and that the barons of the kingdom, with the law on their side, were able to hold the king's will in check.
— from The History of England from the Norman Conquest to the Death of John (1066-1216) by George Burton Adams

"My dear old fellow," burst out Sir Henry at last, "I thought you were dead.
— from King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard