"After you've just made us all so unpopular by refusing a Prince, you simply can't go and engage yourself to some one whose position is so far beneath your own!"
— from In Brief Authority by F. Anstey

So saying he sprang up behind Ronald, and placing one arm round him to support him, took the reins in the other and rode to the rear.
— from Bonnie Prince Charlie : a Tale of Fontenoy and Culloden by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Kèlè gave a roar and sprang up, but Rali and Pandule struck him at the same time on the head and neck with their clubs.
— from The White Hecatomb, and Other Stories by W. C. (William Charles) Scully

Madame Caroline had caught hold of her hands and was pressing and kissing them, so upset by remorse and pity that she stammered out disjointed words.
— from Money (L'Argent) by Émile Zola

The simple fact that Gluck in beginning his labor of reform in opera selected for the subject of his libretto the story used by Rinuccini and Peri in "Euridice" shows that he embarked upon his undertaking with a sincere desire to get at the fundamental principles of the true drama per musica .
— from How Music Developed A Critical and Explanatory Account of the Growth of Modern Music by W. J. (William James) Henderson

In the old days in New Jersey, now happily gone, the days when the granting of special corporation charters was the vogue, a sort of political suzerainty was set up by Railroad and Public Service interests.
— from Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him by Joseph P. (Joseph Patrick) Tumulty

Fa´talism , the belief in fate, or an unchangeable destiny, to which everything is subject, uninfluenced by reason, and pre-established either by chance or the Creator.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Estremoz to Felspar Volume 4, Part 3 by Various