He is beset by doubts which he never settles, and his poems generally express sorrow or regret or resignation.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

The unfortunate Attalus, who was left without subjects or allies, embarked in one of the ports of Spain, in search of some secure and solitary retreat: but he was intercepted at sea, conducted to the presence of Honorius, led in triumph through the streets of Rome or Ravenna, and publicly exposed to the gazing multitude, on the second step of the throne of his invincible conqueror.
— 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

That report he had been speaking of, Report on Republican Things in General we may say, which is to be read in Convention on the morrow, he cannot shew it them this moment: a friend has it; he, Saint-Just, will get it, and send it, were he once home.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

AQUATILAS HAE SUNT DE QUIBUS LOQUOR Platina skins the frogs, turns them in flour and fries them in oil; he adds fennel flower garnish and SALSA VIRIDA (green sauce, our ravigote or remoulade) on the side.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

But to this I answer, that admitting an equal number of rays, or an equal quantity of luminous particles to strike the eye at all times, yet if these rays frequently vary their nature, now to blue, now to red, and so on, or their manner of termination, as to a number of petty squares, triangles, or the like, at every change, whether of color or shape, the organ has a sort of relaxation or rest; but this relaxation and labor so often interrupted, is by no means productive of ease; neither has it the effect of vigorous and uniform labor.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

It is enough to make a body ashamed of his race to think of the sort of froth that has always occupied its thrones without shadow of right or reason, and the seventh-rate people that have always figured as its aristocracies—a company of monarchs and nobles who, as a rule, would have achieved only poverty and obscurity if left, like their betters, to their own exertions.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

There are a set of religious, or rather moral writers, who teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery, in this world.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

The same, too, may be supposed of reverence, of renown, and of pleasant delight.
— from The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius

In this place we shall only record our recollection of the profound sensation created far and wide by the loss of the Chief-Justice's daughter in the packet ship Albion , wrecked off the Head of Kinsale, on the 22nd of April, 1822.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

A chamber-door opened: some one ran, or rushed, along the gallery.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

The house rose sheer from its pavement, brown brick like the wall, and flat-fronted, with the white wings of its storm shutters spread open, row on row.
— from The Tree of Heaven by May Sinclair

At this moment Don Beltrano is crossing the Sala de Ricebimento in the Alcazar, a Gothic Moresque apartment, with lofty raftered ceiling and cornices of dark oak, the sides splendidly gilt, setting off rows of royal shields and bandieros .
— from Old Court Life in Spain, vol. 2/2 by Frances Minto Dickinson Elliot

Ay, rave thy worst, but in our oubliettes Thou shalt or rot or ransom.
— from Queen Mary; and, Harold by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

[Pg 283] in the agent's system of accepted ends, and it is registered in consciousness in that sense of restriction or repression from without which is a notable phase of all emotional experience, particularly in its early stages.
— from Studies in Logical Theory by John Dewey

He was the first up and the last to retire, and whatever had been his occupations during the day, never did he lie down without having scrupulously observed all the spiritual offices, readings or reciting of beads.
— from The Makers of Canada: Bishop Laval by Adrien Leblond

Nile rise in Western Mauretania, did similar work in the time of Augustus; and that Marinus preserved some original records of Roman expeditions which crossed the Great Desert, [79] apparently from Tripoli and Fezzan to the neighbourhood of the Central Sudan States.
— from The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea. Vol. II by Gomes Eannes de Zurara

Book Decoration In Black and White, which is chiefly employed, the designs may be in tone or line with suggestion of rotundity or relief; or line decoratively employed, according to subject, or purely decorative.
— from Design and Tradition A short account of the principles and historic development of architecture and the applied arts by Amor Fenn

[ 1 ] Thus in him were all those qualities of character, and about him were all those conditions, which make his stand for the truth of his story of such great force as presumptive evidence of its correctness; for notwithstanding his youth, his inclination to yield to the persuasions of friends, his deep sympathetic soul, which was pained at the abuse heaped upon his parents as well as upon himself for asserting that he had seen a vision—notwithstanding all this, he never could be induced either by persuasion, by threats, by scoffs, by scorn or ridicule, or religious influence, or abuse heaped upon himself and family, to retract his declaration that he had seen a heavenly vision in which he beheld both God the Father and his Son Jesus Christ.
— from A New Witness for God (Volume 1 of 3) by B. H. (Brigham Henry) Roberts

Nor are we confined to manufacturers' trusts to show that the spirit of rule or ruin characterizes capital as well as labor.
— from Monopolies and the People by Charles Whiting Baker