She went to Versailles on purpose to speak to M. de St. Florentin, and this journey shortened the residence at Montmorency, which the marechal was obliged to quit at the same time to go to Rouen, whither the king sent him as governor of Normandy, on account of the motions of the parliament, which government wished to keep within bounds.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Nevertheless, the kings, priests, private men, and the nobility, still remembering the late calamities and slaughters, in some measure kept within bounds; but when these died, and another generation succeeded, which knew nothing of those times, and was only acquainted with the existing peaceable state of things, all [pg 042] the bonds of truth and justice were so entirely broken, that there was not only no trace of them remaining, but only very few persons seemed to retain any memory of them at all.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

15 But of this necessity the Grand Master may judge, and, on good and sufficient reason being shown, he may grant a dispensation enabling any lodge to suspend this regulation and make more than five new Brothers.
— from The Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Landmarks of Freemasonry by Albert Gallatin Mackey

These struggles, I might add, in which a submerged people seek to rise and make for themselves a place in a world occupied by superior and privileged races, are not less vital or less important because they are bloodless.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Several thousand rupees and many other gifts shall also be bestowed.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

It is worn in a gold or silver receptacle on the arm, and is supposed to render a man invulnerable against sword cuts and musket shots.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

“Let earth with Rákshas blood be dyed.” Responsive to his call rang out A loud, a universal shout, As myriads filled the moat with stone, Trees, rocks, and mountains overthrown, And charging at their leader's call Pressed forward furious to the wall.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

But if it have not furnished us with abler administrators or a more illustrious senate, the Reform Act may have exercised on the country at large a beneficial influence.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

“What do you say,” said I to my blonde, “will you allow your heroic sister to remain a mere looker-on at our sweet struggles?
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

We are apt, in thinking of the Spanish Armada and the attempt of Philip to invade this kingdom, to overlook these provocations, which were certainly sufficient to rouse any monarch to such an enterprise.
— from Cassell's History of England, Vol. 2 (of 8) From the Wars of the Roses to the Great Rebellion by Anonymous

The natives of this island (Guam) use it for bread; they gather it when full grown, while it is green and hard; then they bake it in an oven, which scorches the rind and makes it black: they scrape off the outside black crust and there remains a tender thin crust, and the inside is soft, tender, and white, like the crumb of a penny loaf.
— from Pioneers in Australasia by Harry Johnston

“You said they robbed another man at the same time they killed that Dent.”
— from In the Shadow of the Hills by George C. (George Clifford) Shedd

Exaestuantis pectoris impetum, Rex summe, solus tu regis arbiter, Mentisque, te tollente, surgunt, Te recidunt moderante fluctus
— from Life of Johnson, Volume 5 Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into North Wales (1774) by James Boswell

This address had the desired effect; the crowd retired, and Godoï was taken prisoner to the barracks of the gardes du corps , where, by one of those strange coincidences by which it would appear as if Providence sought to remind ambitious men of a day of retribution, he was locked up in the very chamber which he had occupied when a simple private soldier in that identical corps.
— from Reminiscences of Prince Talleyrand, Volume 1 (of 2) by Colmache, M., active 19th century

Mummius, who was as honest as he was dull-witted, strictly obeyed orders in sending the choicest of the spoil to Rome, and made himself forever famous as a [Pg 349] marvel of stupidity by a remark to those who were charged with the conveyance of some of the noblest of Grecian statues.
— from Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 10 (of 15), Greek by Charles Morris

[141] Most of the Wisconsin Ojibwe know about this favored wild potato; and also use the hard chestnut-like seeds to roast and make into a sweet meal.
— from Ethnobotany of the Ojibwe Indians by Huron H. (Huron Herbert) Smith

There was at the same time revelation and mystery, curiosity and silence, astonishment and apathy in that look.
— from Analytical Studies by Honoré de Balzac