This victory, so gratifying to national pride, was perhaps a real loss to Spain, for the reforms which prevailed in other parts of Europe were never carried out in Spain, and she remains even yet unliberated from aristocratic and clerical power.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

" "But if you think they are what I should really enjoy, you must think my ambitions are good enough for me." Selden met this appeal with a laugh.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

And thus, O circular philosopher, I hear some reader exclaim, you have arrived at a fine pyrrhonism, [713] at an equivalence and indifferency of all actions, and would fain teach us that if we are true , forsooth, our crimes may be lively stones out of which we shall construct the temple of the true God.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

[pg 003] Mine is thy daughter, priest, and shall remain; And prayers, and tears, and bribes, shall plead in vain; Till time shall rifle every youthful grace, And age dismiss her from my cold embrace,
— from The Iliad by Homer

A superstitious age was prepared to reverence, as the testimony of Heaven , the preternatural cures, which were performed by the skill or virtue of the Catholic clergy; the baptismal fonts of Osset in Baetica, which were spontaneously replenished every year, on the vigil of Easter; and the miraculous shrine of St. Martin of Tours, which had already converted the Suevic prince and people of Gallicia.
— 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

thought Prince Andrew while he listened to her voice, for some reason expecting yet fearing that she might say something about him.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Because heaven has so richly endowed you with the arts of war, you think that you must therefore excel others in counsel; but you cannot thus claim preeminence in all things.
— from The Iliad by Homer

But truly tell, was it for force or guile, Or some religious end, you rais’d the pile?’
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

As to dress he tells us: “Each slave receives every year linen shirts, [Pg 255] somewhat finer than that of which sails are made; two pair of knee trousers, which are made without any division, like a woman’s petticoat,—for they must be put on over the head because of the chain; one pair of stockings made of coarse red stuff, but no shoes.
— from Early French Prisons Le Grand and Le Petit Châtelets; Vincennes; The Bastile; Loches; The Galleys; Revolutionary Prisons by Arthur Griffiths

After following him for four hours, he stopped, turned around and said, “Rest, eat you fellows.”
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 22 Juvenilia and Other Papers by Robert Louis Stevenson

One of the strangers would say: "My dear Geissler, you ought not to have such red eyes, you know."
— from Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun

“Right ye are, sir,” returned Enderby; “ye may trust me to put the matter to the chaps in a way that they’ll understand; and I don’t think as there’ll be any trouble to speak of.
— from The Strange Adventures of Eric Blackburn by Harry Collingwood

"Sire," replied Emery, "your Majesty is better acquainted than I am with the history of revolutions.
— from World's Best Histories — Volume 7: France by François Guizot

Her father, discovering her there, and grateful for the service rendered, exclaims: "You have behaved like an emperor to her.
— from William E. Burton: Actor, Author, and Manager A Sketch of his Career with Recollections of his Performances by William L. (William Linn) Keese

Reason and the divine word should rather encourage you to attend him, mentally, with rejoicing and congratulation as resting from his labours, and having exchanged this troublesome state for a better.
— from The Greek Romances of Heliodorus, Longus and Achilles Tatius Comprising the Ethiopics; or, Adventures of Theagenes and Chariclea; The pastoral amours of Daphnis and Chloe; and the loves of Clitopho and Leucippe by of Emesa Heliodorus

There had been constant increase in our suicide rate every year until the Civil War began, then there was a drop at once and this continued until the end of the war.
— from Religion And Health by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh