So they rebelled against the authority of a second son of Almanzor, who had provoked them by publicly putting in his claim to succeed to the throne, and they insisted on the Khalif taking the reins of State into his own weak hands.
— from The Moors in Spain by Stanley Lane-Poole

She knew that Carry Fisher was right: that an opportune absence might be the first step toward rehabilitation, and that, at any rate, to linger on in town out of season was a fatal admission of defeat.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

Let us try this public opinion by another test, which is important in three points of view: first, as showing how desperately timid of the public opinion slave-owners are, in their delicate descriptions of fugitive slaves in widely circulated newspapers; secondly, as showing how perfectly contented the slaves are, and how very seldom they run away; thirdly, as exhibiting their entire freedom from scar, or blemish, or any mark of cruel infliction, as their pictures are drawn, not by lying abolitionists, but by their own truthful masters.
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

He had just jumped to his feet, hurried past Will Henderson who was reading proof in the printshop and started to run along the alleyway.
— from Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life by Sherwood Anderson

The only God-anointed king, And hear the silver trumpets ring A triumph as he passes by!
— from Poems, with The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde

In the case of Gratitude even the rigidity of Kant [177] seems to relax, and to admit an element of emotion as indispensable to the virtue: and there are various other notions, such as Loyalty and Patriotism, which it is difficult—without paradox—either to exclude from a list of virtues or to introduce stripped bare of all emotional elements.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

The angles of a Square (and still more those of an equilateral Triangle), being much more pointed than those of a Pentagon, and the lines of inanimate objects (such as houses) being dimmer than the lines of Men and Women, it follows that there is no little danger lest the points of a square or triangular house residence might do serious injury to an inconsiderate or perhaps absent-minded traveller suddenly therefore, running against them: and as early as the eleventh century of our era, triangular houses were universally forbidden by Law, the only exceptions being fortifications, powder-magazines, barracks, and other state buildings, which it is not desirable that the general public should approach without circumspection.
— from Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Illustrated) by Edwin Abbott Abbott

Bramble The Prophet The Quack Frog The Raven and the Swan The Rich Man and the Tanner The Rivers and the Sea The Rose and the Amaranth The Salt Merchant and His Ass The Seagull and the Kite
— from Aesop's Fables Translated by George Fyler Townsend by Aesop

Their accustomed place was on the cushioned seat that ran around the altar.
— from The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 by Various

At length, on the night of August 24th, A.D. 79 , they became so violent that the whole region seemed to reel and totter, and all things appeared to be threatened with destruction.
— from Volcanoes: Past and Present by Edward Hull

I have occasionally written more of it than I can here stay to recite; and the accurate handling of it requireth more words than I will here use.
— from A Christian Directory, Part 3: Christian Ecclesiastics by Richard Baxter

The flower-wreathed columns seemed to reel and tremble; and with every instant he heard the ashes fall cranchingly into the roofless peristyle.
— from The Last Days of Pompeii by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

The motive of this tortuous proceeding, the author believed to have been a deep-laid scheme to revive, after the American War was ended, the earlier international practice of Great Britain, in treating as subject to belligerent seizure enemy's goods under the neutral flag.
— from Great Britain and the American Civil War by Ephraim Douglass Adams

Suppose the circumstances changed, suppose them reversed, and then all those evil consequence sought to take effect which in the case of Rome we have denied.
— from The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 by Thomas De Quincey

" After further inquiries and [Pg 101] replies of this sort the crowd would, for the time being, reluctantly disperse, murmuring something about a "sell" instead of a "sale," to return again time after time with the same ill-success, till eventually, realising that they had been duped, the bell-pull was torn out and the windows broken, the proprietor meanwhile doing a flourishing business in some other locality.
— from Light Come, Light Go: Gambling—Gamesters—Wagers—The Turf by Ralph Nevill

With great daring he goes on to say who painted all the others: Sebastian del Piombo this, Andrea Schiavone that, Romanino another, Titian another, and so forth.
— from A Wanderer in Venice by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas

At times the savage devotion of the lovers seemed to rise above the animal instincts of sense, but only to sink deeper into the mythical regions of hopeful doubt and despair.
— from The Manatitlans or, A record of recent scientific explorations in the Andean La Plata, S. A. by R. Elton Smile

Then one of their number, who stood guard, gave the signal to run, and they all ran away.
— from Anarchy and Anarchists A History of the Red Terror and the Social Revolution in America and Europe; Communism, Socialism, and Nihilism in Doctrine and in Deed; The Chicago Haymarket Conspiracy and the Detection and Trial of the Conspirators by Michael J. Schaack