He had asserted from the beginning that the administration was hostile to him; that it had failed in its promises of men and war material; that the President himself had shown duplicity if not treachery in the endeavor to procure the appointment of Benton: and the administration now gave open evidence of its enmity.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

Concerning war, which we are now hoping that we see the beginning of the end of, he need only have looked into The Biglow Papers to find his idolized Lowell saying: “Ez fur war I call it murder; There ye hev it plain an' flat; An' I don't want to go no furder Then my Testament fur that.” I feel it laid upon me in commending this book to a new generation of readers, to guard them, so far as I may, against such errors of it.
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

What assurance then can we take of a thing so mobile and unstable, subject by its condition to the dominion of trouble, and never going other than a forced and borrowed pace?
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

“There are no good ones.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

As to that class of monstrous natures who not only believe that there are no Gods, or that they are negligent, or to be propitiated, but in contempt of mankind conjure the souls of the living and say that they can conjure the dead and promise to charm the Gods with sacrifices and prayers, and will utterly overthrow individuals and whole houses and states for the sake of money—let him who is guilty of any of these things be condemned by the court to be bound according to law in the prison which is in the centre of the land, and let no freeman ever approach him, but let him receive the rations of food appointed by the guardians of the law from the hands of the public slaves; and when he is dead let him be cast beyond the borders unburied, and if any freeman assist in burying him, let him pay the penalty of impiety to any one who is willing to bring a suit against
— from Laws by Plato

"Those are not governors of islands," observed Samson, "but of other governments of an easier kind: those that govern islands must at least know grammar."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The king thus thought in his mind—“I don’t care a straw for the girl whose clothes never tear and never get old; neither do I care for the other girl whose fuel is never consumed; [ 229 ] nor for the third girl whose rice never fails in the pot.
— from Folk-Tales of Bengal by Lal Behari Day

They hang us now in Shrewsbury jail: The whistles blow forlorn, And trains all night groan on the rail To men that die at morn.
— from A Shropshire Lad by A. E. (Alfred Edward) Housman

Discover what they are capable of doing; and ascertain that they are not greedy, or inclined to drink.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

“She’s bed-rid a lot of the time and never goes out of the house.
— from Anne of the Island by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

The consigning the eighty-five prisoners after such a ceremony to gaol with no other than a Native guard over them was folly that is inconceivable.'
— from Forty-one years in India: from subaltern to commander-in-chief by Roberts, Frederick Sleigh Roberts, Earl

And indeed so it was, being narrow and grassy and shady with trees, save that these were such trees as never grew on English soil.
— from Black Bartlemy's Treasure by Jeffery Farnol

"And yet for you," he said, "they are not grinding out the fate of your country."
— from The Great Prince Shan by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

They are not guilty of such madness.
— from The Theory and Policy of Labour Protection by A. (Albert) Schäffle

He will buy any book, or set of books, to aid her; but he would have her wear her hair as “other ladies wear theirs, and not give occasion for all those flings about women who want to know so much,” and go with their hair about their faces and themselves at “sixes and [Pg 198] sevens,” generally.
— from The Education of American Girls by Anna C. (Anna Callender) Brackett

His brother-in-law, Allan Macleod, gave him the custody of their rights, but when he found his nephews were murdered, he took a new gift of it to himself, and going to Gairloch with a number of Kintail men and others, he took a heirschip with him, but such as were alive of the Siol 'ille Challum of Gairloch, followed him and fought him at a place called Glasleoid, but they being beat Hector carried away the heirschip.
— from History of the Mackenzies, with genealogies of the principal families of the name by Alexander Mackenzie

O 20 ‘17 450w “In the new story there is a well-sustained plot in addition to a new group of familiar character types.
— from The Book Review Digest, Volume 13, 1917 Thirteenth Annual Cumulation Reviews of 1917 Books by Various

This trio are now gone over to the great majority.
— from Adventures and Recollections by Bill o'th' Hoylus End

A final test should then be made to ascertain that there are no grounds on the different parts of the wiring, and that the insulation comes up to the requirements of the underwriters.
— from Hawkins Electrical Guide v. 04 (of 10) Questions, Answers, & Illustrations, A progressive course of study for engineers, electricians, students and those desiring to acquire a working knowledge of electricity and its applications by N. (Nehemiah) Hawkins

"They are not glass or crystals!" declared Mark, who had made a study of gems.
— from Lost on the Moon; Or, in Quest of the Field of Diamonds by Roy Rockwood