He secures, in fact, not merely a State which has unbounded rights against the individual, but a determinate authority with the right to enforce those rights.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It was an ancient edifice of the fifteenth century, once a palace, now a training-school, with mullioned and transomed windows, and a courtyard in front shut in from the road by a wall.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

Sixtly, I find not that the Ancients they cite, took it for an Ornament, to doe the like with those that wrote before them.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

Aulica vita colluvies ambitionis, cupiditatis, simulationis, imposturae, fraudis, invidiae, superbiae Titannicae diversorium aula, et commune conventiculum assentandi artificum, &c. Budaeus de asse.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Then fact slides into fiction with the finding of Raphael Hythloday (whose name, made of two Greek words [Greek text] and [Greek text], means “knowing in trifles”), a man who had been with Amerigo Vespucci in the three last of the voyages to the new world lately discovered, of which the account had been first printed in 1507, only nine years before Utopia was written.
— from Utopia by More, Thomas, Saint

Further that, as in such case business is like to be heavy, our Revolutionary Tribunal too shall have extension; be divided, say, into Four Tribunals, each with its President, each with its Fouquier or Substitute of Fouquier, all labouring at once, and any remnant of shackle or dilatory formality be struck off: in this way it may perhaps still overtake the work.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Ah, divine Heloise , said I, flinging myself at her feet, I swear by yourself—I was going on to convince her of the truth of my passion, but heard a noise, and it was Fulbert.
— from Letters of Abelard and Heloise To which is prefix'd a particular account of their lives, amours, and misfortunes by Héloïse

Mr. Fleming, in his admirable little pamphlet on the church, sums up the various alterations that have taken place in the structure when he says “the view of the stately interior tells at once, and more fully than the outside features, the story of the changes that have befallen the church through the {179} centuries since its foundation.
— from The Tower of London by Arthur Poyser

With what other woman should I fight?" "When you turned Mrs. Stephen out at door she fled to my wife.
— from Two Sides of the Face: Midwinter Tales by Arthur Quiller-Couch

Humphrey strolled in from the composing room.
— from Henry Is Twenty: A Further Episodic History of Henry Calverly, 3rd by Samuel Merwin

As the door closed behind him she stood irresolute for a moment, then suddenly realized she had been up since dawn and was very tired.
— from The Forbidden Way by George Gibbs

It is shown in Fig.
— from A Primer of Mayan Hieroglyphics by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton

What saved Japanese society in former ages from the worst results of this form of tyranny, was the moral sentiment of the mass,—the common feeling that underlay all submission to authority, and remained always capable, if pressed upon too brutally, of compelling a reaction.
— from Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation by Lafcadio Hearn

DEDANS , when expressed of the sails, imports furled or stowed: as, Mettre les voiles Dedans , to take in the sails.
— from An Universal Dictionary of the Marine Or, a Copious Explanation of the Technical Terms and Phrases Employed in the Construction, Equipment, Furniture, Machinery, Movements, and Military Operations of a Ship. Illustrated With Variety of Original Designs of Shipping, in Different Situations; Together With Separate Views of Their Masts, Sails, Yards, and Rigging. to Which Is Annexed, a Translation of the French Sea-terms and Phrases, Collected from the Works of Mess. Du Hamel, Aubin, Saverien, &c. by William Falconer

The sky is falling.
— from Motion Pictures 1960-1969: Catalog of Copyright Entries by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

[pg 12] For "greaves" or leg-armour you can cut out and paint cardboard shapes, like those shown in Fig.
— from Toy-Making at Home: How to Make a Hundred Toys from Odds and Ends by Morley Adams