If we survey the European courts from the end of the Seven Years' War down to the French Revolution, we note the marked growth of a distinctly international and pacific spirit.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

Sugríva then to Ráma sped, And raised his reverent hands, and said That every chief from coast to coast Was present with his warrior host.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

“Catch me letting you spoil the Easter cake for nothing!
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Swift at the scourge the ethereal coursers fly, While the smooth chariot cuts the liquid sky.
— from The Iliad by Homer

The Church itself, wholly militant: Episcopalians maintaining what can never be established; Presbyterians more sour than ever, contending for rights where they have none whatever: Methodists so disunited that they cannot even join in a respectable groan; and Catholic priests wandering about in poverty because their scattered and starving flocks yield not sufficient wool for the shears.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

But however that might be, this speech was somewhat unlucky, for with that quickness of wit for which he was so remarkable, he seized the expression, "come from Scotland!" which I used In the sense of being of that country; and, as if I had come away from it, or left it, he retorted, "That, sir, I find is what a great many of your countrymen cannot help."
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

In Russian society there exist clever folk who can speak in one manner to a landowner possessed of two hundred peasant souls, and in another to a landowner possessed of three hundred, and in another to a landowner possessed of five hundred.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

But however that might be, this speech was somewhat unlucky; for with that quickness of wit for which he was so remarkable, he seized the expression 'come from Scotland,' which I used in the sense of being of that country; and, as if I had said that I had come away from it, or left it, retorted, 'That, Sir, I find, is what a very great many of your countrymen cannot help.'
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

It was soon the established custom for young Romans to go to Athens and to other centers of Greek learning to finish their training, and the knowledge of the Greek language among the educated classes became universal.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Probably Woodward is correct when he says that each crest formerly denoted a noble fief, for which the proprietor had a right to vote in the "circles" of the Empire, and he instances the Margraves of Brandenburg-Anspach, who were entitled to no less than thirteen crests.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

But in the second stage of the development of the science the entire credit for the progress made belongs to the Greeks.
— from The Science of the Stars by E. Walter (Edward Walter) Maunder

“What of the house?” I ask'd, when the tale was done, and a company sent to search the east cliff from the beach.
— from The Splendid Spur Being Memoirs of the Adventures of Mr. John Marvel, a Servant of His Late Majesty King Charles I, in the Years 1642-3 by Arthur Quiller-Couch

He says on p. 1: “The excellent results of the expedition of Mr. Sternberg in the spring of 1901 to Texas, which brought many very valuable specimens of Eryops , Dimetredon , and Labidosaurus to the Paleontological Museum’s collection, caused the conservator of the Royal Paleontological Collection, Councillor von Zittel, to send out in the year of 1901 a second expedition to the Permian beds of the same territory, he being again successful in securing Mr. Charles Sternberg, the excellent collector from Lawrence, Kansas.
— from The Life of a Fossil Hunter by Charles H. (Charles Hazelius) Sternberg

It is sufficient that each candidate for the ministry be asked to make his own statement, either in his own words or in the words of any creed he finds acceptable, leaving it for his brethren to decide whether or not such intellectual statement is consistent with that spiritual service which is to be his chief concern.
— from The Five Great Philosophies of Life by William De Witt Hyde

854 It [pg 298] is for this reason that, according to St. Thomas, explicit contrition for mortal sins is necessary for justification even when there is perfect charity, and the sufficiency of the so-called poenitentia virtualis is limited to venial offenses and such grievous sins as cannot be remembered.
— from Grace, Actual and Habitual: A Dogmatic Treatise by Joseph Pohle

“The Pots— Dam silly,” was surely the most finished sting that ever came from the tail of what I venture to call “vespa-verse.”
— from A Garden of Peace: A Medley in Quietude by Frank Frankfort Moore

Besides | to keep | you dry, 'Tis plain | that you | as well | as I, 'Can lift | your cotton.'" See The Essex County Freeman , Vol.
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

In a business conducted through the mail, a classified sales list that shows at a glance what classes of goods have been sold to each customer furnishes an excellent guide for further circularizing.
— from Cyclopedia of Commerce, Accountancy, Business Administration, v. 01 (of 10) by American School of Correspondence