The English word Filibuster was changed into “Filibusteros” by the Spanish, and in later years it came to be applied especially to those charged with stirring up discontent and rebellion.
— from Lineage, Life and Labors of José Rizal, Philippine Patriot by Austin Craig

How glad you are to know the general rules, thinking thereby to set up dissension, and render all useless!
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

I had felt for some time that I was turning her soul upside down and rending her heart, and--and the more I was convinced of it, the more eagerly I desired to gain my object as quickly and as effectually as possible.
— from Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I had felt for some time that I was turning her soul upside down and rending her heart, and—and the more I was convinced of it, the more eagerly I desired to gain my object as quickly and as effectually as possible.
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

From him I learned to follow the example set us by Providence, who strikes us down at random, and to admire the beautiful whenever and wherever it is found.
— from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

We went in and out, climbing stone-cut steps up, down, and round about the caves, not knowing which temple to admire most or on which to bestow undivided attention.
— from Life and Travel in India Being Recollections of a Journey Before the Days of Railroads by Anna Harriette Leonowens

Probably the gay ladies covered with brilliants that flash out accumulated lustre from the footlights of the theatres they nightly visit have no suspicion that the delicate and graceful girls they see upon the stage are victims of this same unjust discrimination as regards compensation.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

I seem to hear you saying, little reader, "This was very sudden; but surely such unexpected deaths are rare, I shall not die in that way.
— from The Pearl Box Containing One Hundred Beautiful Stories for Young People by Anonymous

After that it was not a difficult thing to follow the direction in which this came to him on the wind; until in the end he gave a shout, upon discovering a rude log cabin nestling under an over-hanging shelf of rock.
— from Rocky Mountain Boys; Or, Camping in the Big Game Country by St. George Rathborne

In answer to a letter of inquiry he further writes:— “My wife, who went from Lawton that particular Sunday to see her sister, will testify, that as she attended upon her (after the departure of the minister) during the night, she was asking and craving for me, repeatedly saying, ‘Oh, I wish I could see Uncle Done and Rosie once more before I go!’
— from Telepathy and the Subliminal Self by R. Osgood (Rufus Osgood) Mason

The boy scout, with an anticipatory glow all over him, felt impervious to any extreme of temperature as he bounded down the uplands, with the breeze—the freshening, freakish breeze—driving across the salt-marshes directly in his face, racing through every vein in him, stirring up a whirligig within, presently bringing waste things to the top even as it stirred up dust and refuse in the roadway.
— from A Scout of To-day by Isabel Hornibrook

ssarily associated with beauty and excellence of soul, usually discard all reference to bodily endowments.
— from Saint Bonaventure: The Seraphic Doctor Minister-General of the Franciscan Order by Laurence Costelloe

While this matter is still under discussion, a ring at the front-door bell is heard, and ‘a woman of very singular appearance’ is seen ‘standing in the rain, without an umbrella, as if water were her native element.’
— from A Lady of England: The Life and Letters of Charlotte Maria Tucker by Agnes Giberne

He simply and diplomatically answered, however, that he could not but concur with the Secretary in lamenting the misery of the Provinces and people so utterly despoiled and ruined, but, as it might be matter of dispute; "from what head this fountain of calamity was both fed and derived, he would not enter further therein, it being a matter much too high for his capacity.
— from History of the United Netherlands, 1588a by John Lothrop Motley