All these troops arrived by degrees in Tepeaca, and respectively obtained some by-name or other from our men.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

Also there are reasons of State.
— from Salomé: A Tragedy in One Act by Oscar Wilde

Among all the healthy symptoms that characterize this age, I know no sounder one than the eagerness which theologians show to assimilate results of science, and to hearken to the conclusions of men of science about universal matters.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

But the reason why this objection is so unanimously brought against our doctrine of time, and that too by disputants who cannot start any intelligible arguments against the doctrine of the ideality of space, is this—they have no hope of demonstrating apodeictically the absolute reality of space, because the doctrine of idealism is against them, according to which the reality of external objects is not capable of any strict proof.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

I do therefore think fit to acquaint you, and assure you in the King my Master’s Name, that if I do meet with any of your Rogues for the future upon the Coast of this Island, I will order them to be hanged directly without Mercy; and I expect and demand of you to make ample Restitution to Captain Chamberlain or all the Negroes which the said Brown and Winter have lately taken off from the North-Side of this Island, and also of such Sloops and other Effects as they have been taken and robbed of, since the Cessation of Arms, and that you will deliver up to the Bearer such English Men as are now detained, or otherwise remain at Trinidado ; and also expect you will hereafter forbear granting any Commissions, or suffer any such notorious Villains to be equipp’d and fitted out from your Port: otherwise you may depend upon it, those that I can meet with, shall be esteemed Pyrates, and treated as such; of which I thought proper to give you Notice, and am, &c. A Letter from Mr. Joseph Laws , Lieutenant of his Majesty’s Ship, Happy Snow, to the Alcaldes of Trinidado .
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

There are really only Stephen and Philip Wakem who have any knowledge of music, so as to be able to sing a part."
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

The usual explanation, which makes insertas an epithet transferred by a sort of hypallage from Luna to fenestras , is extremely violent, and makes the word little more than a repetition of se fundebat .
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

He dressed himself in it, and amused himself by hiding in a thicket and rushing out suddenly at the animals who passed that way.
— from The Aesop for Children With pictures by Milo Winter by Aesop

Come and see, if thou art rested.' Out shuffled the lama to the main hall, and, the Curator beside him, went through the collection with the reverence of a devotee and the appreciative instinct of a craftsman.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

Pencroft had remarked, several hundred feet from the place at which they landed, a narrow cutting, out of which he thought a river or stream might issue.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

"This is very kind of you," he began, conscious of an audible sniff and the angry rustle of skirts behind him; and before him, Mrs. Lytchett's tilted nose and stony eyes fixed in the same direction.
— from The Quiver 12/1899 by Anonymous

I can't call that a proper thing for a little girl to talk about, right out, so."
— from The Brimming Cup by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

The main body of a church, extending from the choir to the principal façade; i. e. that part between the outer aisles I Aisles The lateral passage on either side of the nave and separated therefrom by piers or pillars J Portal Literally, the framework of a doorway K Abside The domed easterly end of a church L Sacristy The apartment in which is kept the church plate and vestments No. 2. Cross Section A 388 Nave aisle vaulting The arched roof of stone B Nave vaulting The arched roof of stone C Flying buttress A supporting outside prop of the thrust variety.
— from The Cathedrals of Northern France by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

He recognises the necessity of watchfulness, of prompt decision, and abandons himself to the accelerated rate of speed with a degree of confidence which he cannot help suspecting to be recklessness in disguise.
— from A Colonial Reformer, Vol. 1 (of 3) by Rolf Boldrewood

Rev. Augustus Jessop, the Anglican rector of Seaming, in his volume of essays, "Before the Great Pillage," tells of other parts of England and that "the almshouses in which old men and women were fed and clothed were robbed to the last pound, the poor almsfolk being turned out in the cold at an hour's warning to beg their bread.
— from The Century of Columbus by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

We must come to a road of some sort in the long-run, which will conduct to somewhere or other, no doubt.
— from Freaks on the Fells: Three Months' Rustication by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

Whoever will examine the progress of Christian society from the earlier ages, will find that there could be no other result than a repudiation of solid learning and an alliance with art.
— from History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition by John William Draper

—Even before the actual resumption of specie payment, the advocates of free silver were a power to be reckoned with, particularly in the Democratic party.
— from History of the United States by Mary Ritter Beard

The beverage may, in fact, be neither more nor less than a compound of the most deleterious substances; and it is also clear that all ranks of society are alike exposed to the nefarious fraud.
— from A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons Exhibiting the Fraudulent Sophistications of Bread, Beer, Wine, Spiritous Liquors, Tea, Coffee, Cream, Confectionery, Vinegar, Mustard, Pepper, Cheese, Olive Oil, Pickles, and Other Articles Employed in Domestic Economy by Friedrich Christian Accum

We still had in our wagons and in camp abundance of meat, but we needed bread, sugar, and coffee, and it was all-important that a route of supply should at once be opened, for which purpose the assistance of the navy were indispensable.
— from Project Gutenberg Edition of The Memoirs of Four Civil War Generals by John Alexander Logan