A charter granted by the State to a company is a contract, and equally binding to the State as to the grantee.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

The kingdom never in so troubled a condition in this world as now; nobody pleased with the peace, and yet nobody daring to wish for the continuance of the war, it being plain that nothing do nor can thrive under us.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Such debts amounted to about four thousand: one thousand five hundred for a horse, and two thousand five hundred as surety for a young comrade, Venovsky, who had lost that sum to a cardsharper in Vronsky’s presence.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Why, they actually think that they have [245] conferred a favour by accepting one, however great; and they even suspect that a claim is thereby set up against them or that something is expected in return.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

3. Then, above, let there be a horizontal drum, similarly toothed and contained in another case, with its teeth engaging the tooth fixed to the side of the second drum, and let as many holes be made in this (third) drum as will correspond to the number of miles—more or less, it does not matter—that a carriage can go in a day's journey.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

A thin ray smote through a crack in the shutters, impinged upon the object, and seemed as it were to fill its entire interior.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

See the Amica Collatio, (it well deserves that name,) or account of the dispute between them.
— 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

It is very much like saying that a consideration is presumed for an instrument under seal; which is merely a way of reconciling the formal theory that all contracts must have a consideration with the manifest fact that sealed instruments do not require one.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

He was to be thrown into space like sailors throw a corpse into the sea.
— from The Moon-Voyage by Jules Verne

Next a small quantity of zwieback (or soft toast), and continuing in this way, chicken, and butter are admitted.
— from Dietetics for Nurses by Fairfax T. (Fairfax Throckmorton) Proudfit

She stated simply that all Chinamans in London called him that; and being pressed further added, with as near an approach to impatience as her gentle nature could muster, that it was obviously because Plince Victo' was Numbe' One: ev'-body knew that .
— from Red Masquerade Being the Story of the Lone Wolf's Daughter by Louis Joseph Vance

There was nothing, of course, to say to a man so thoroughly and completely informed on all points, and D’Artagnan was permitted, therefore, to do as he liked.
— from Louise de la Valliere by Alexandre Dumas

They’ll land a party, and come and search; but they won’t dare to go to the Hoze, so I’ll leave the stuff there and chance it.”
— from Cutlass and Cudgel by George Manville Fenn

But, to bring this rapid sketch to a close, I will only add that a certain Hans Pfaal, of Rotterdam, launching himself in a balloon filled with a gas extracted from nitrogen, thirty-seven times lighter than hydrogen, reached the moon after a passage of nineteen hours.
— from From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon by Jules Verne

Under this invincible inspiration, when danger threatens her idol, she knows no self; disgrace, death affright her not; she extends her arms to arrest every approach, offers her own breast as a shield against darts, bullets, sword thrusts, and counts it a privilege to lay down life in defence of that idol.
— from At the Mercy of Tiberius by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans

To apply the thought, the trifles of play supply the psychological rigging which alone can save the animal craft in the coming storm of the struggle for existence.
— from Animal Behaviour by C. Lloyd (Conwy Lloyd) Morgan