He was so kind and holy and often and often she thought and thought could she work a ruched teacosy with embroidered floral design for him as a present or a clock but they had a clock she noticed on the mantelpiece white and gold with a canarybird that came out of a little house to tell the time the day she went there about the flowers for the forty hours’ adoration because it was hard to know what sort of a present to give or perhaps an album of illuminated views of Dublin or some place.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

One, by Naturall force; as when a man maketh his children, to submit themselves, and their children to his government, as being able to destroy them if they refuse, or by Warre subdueth his enemies to his will, giving them their lives on that condition.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

But how very necessary it is carefully to examine such things and to consider whether the single premises are sound, the example in question or any other example will show.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

M. Agrippa supposed that all this coast was peopled by colonists of Punic origin.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

[In English we would rather say “without soul ”; but I prefer to translate Geist consistently by spirit , to avoid the confusion of it with Seele .]
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

Now the cities which transferred their 429 allegiance to him in the first instance were Cyme, Smyrna, and Phocaea; after them Aegae and Temnus submitted, in terror at his approach; and thereupon he was waited upon by ambassadors from Teos and Colophon with offers to surrender themselves and their cities.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

“The best thing of all is that the Greeks should not go to war with each other at all, but give the gods hearty thanks if by all speaking with one voice, Speech of Agelaus of Naupactus foreshadowing the Roman conquest. and joining hands like people crossing a stream, they may be able to repel the attacks of barbarians and save themselves and their cities.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

They had gone across the street to avoid the crowd of men and boys that hung like a pack of hounds about the prisoner, but were gazing after him with anxious faces, that touched even the officer with pity, as his glance fell upon them.
— from Fashion and Famine by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens

For instance there was that week in July when the news came to him—through an entirely unofficial but highly authentic channel—that the First and Second Divisions of the United States Army were going to be used somewhere near Château-Thierry as shock troops against the continued German drive.
— from With the Doughboy in France: A Few Chapters of an American Effort by Edward Hungerford

On leaving I at once consulted with Mr. Gye, the General Manager of the Royal Italian Opera Company, Covent Garden, Limited, and he fully agreed with me that there was no alternative but to accede to the terms, the sum demanded being but a trifle more than Patti had been receiving throughout the season then about to close.
— from The Mapleson Memoirs, 1848-1888, vol I by James Henry Mapleson

After a while I chanced to look up again and saw that all the cattle in the pasture had gathered around the dark object on the ground and were sniffing at it.
— from The Red Cow and Her Friends by Peter McArthur

So that at the conclusion of the first act there is no design laid, no discovery made, nor any disposition formed towards the consequent event.
— from The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II by Samuel Johnson

The promoters’ statement as to the composition of the product is absurd, but not more so than are the claims made for it as a therapeutic agent.
— from The Propaganda for Reform in Proprietary Medicines, Vol. 1 of 2 by Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry (American Medical Association)

“Thank you,” said Tom, at the conclusion of the song.
— from Tom Temple's Career by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

Speaking of those in the pepper country near Chulam (Quilon), he says that all the cities and countries inhabited by these people contain only about 100 Jews (members of the synagogue), who are of black [ 482 ] colour as well as the other inhabitants.”
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 2 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

Three or four scrolls of Stradivari's are in my recollection as having been under such treatment and the contour being destroyed there was little about the general shape to remind the spectator of the beautiful design as it left the maker's hands.
— from The Repairing & Restoration of Violins 'The Strad' Library, No. XII. by Horace Petherick