Many terrible examples we have in this kind, amongst the Turks especially, many jealous outrages; [6001] Selimus killed Kornutus his youngest brother, five of his nephews, Mustapha Bassa, and divers others.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

If you are not light-hearted enough for that, you can take refuge in fatalism, and have the great truth revealed to you that everything which happens is the result of necessity, and therefore inevitable.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims by Arthur Schopenhauer

Out of the smudgy little window you could see an immense expanse of sad-looking sky, and whenever there were clouds they looked very worn, old clouds, frayed at the edges, with holes in them, or dark stains like tea.
— from The Garden Party, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

William III thus was enabled to take England with him into the European War of the Spanish Succession.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

And though my suit Beset by endless obstacles I see, Yet no despair Shall hold me bound to earth while heaven is there.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

It was not the engineer who had invented this way of causing loud explosions, for, according to Marco Polo, the Tartars have employed it for many centuries to drive away from their encampments the formidable wild beasts of Central Asia.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

If, on the other hand, we try to constitute memory without the act, we are driven to a content, since we must have something that happens NOW, as opposed to the event which happened in the past.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

As their quarrels every day became more and more frequent, Dee wrote letters to Queen Elizabeth to secure a favourable reception on his return to England, whither he intended to proceed if Kelly forsook him.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

To this proposal he replied, that he was extremely well disposed to manifest his regard for their imperial majesties, and to give the most genuine proofs of it, even in the proposed election of a king of the Romans, considering the great merit of the present candidate the archduke Joseph; but he left it to the consideration of their imperial majesties, whether the election would not be a little premature, if transacted at a time when his imperial majesty was in the flower of his age; enjoying perfect health; and when all Europe, particularly the empire, was hushed in the bosom of tranquillity, so that no circumstance seemed to prognosticate the necessity of such an election; or of putting in execution the motives mentioned in the capitulation of the reigning emperor’s election; especially as the examination of these motives belonged to the whole empire, and ought to precede the election, by virtue of the eighth article of the treaty of Westphalia.
— from The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. Continued from the Reign of William and Mary to the Death of George II. by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Nor can one for a moment admit that the Emperor was hoodwinked into the belief that the circular had been distributed.
— from An Englishman in Paris: Notes and Recollections by Albert D. (Albert Dresden) Vandam

The general in command was directing not one but many battles, each with a general of its own; manœuvring troops across the streams and open places, seeking the cover of forests, with the aeroplanes unable to learn how many of the enemy were hidden in the forests on his front, while he tried to keep his men out of angles and make his movements correspond with those of the divisions on his right and left.
— from My Year of the Great War by Frederick Palmer

" At length the clouds broke; the light became clearer and clearer; and the enthusiast, who had imagined that he was branded with the mark of the first murderer, and destined to the end of the arch traitor, enjoyed peace and a cheerful confidence in the mercy of God.
— from Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 3 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

These chronicles originally were merely dry statements of the events which happened in the monastery, the community in which it was located, or even the country.
— from Books Before Typography A Primer of Information About the Invention of the Alphabet and the History of Book-Making up to the Invention of Movable Types Typographic Technical Series for Apprentices #49 by Frederick W. (Frederick William) Hamilton

The enemy was hit in the shoulder, and uttered a deep cry of pain.
— from Fighting in Cuban Waters; Or, Under Schley on the Brooklyn by Edward Stratemeyer

"To my forethought," he continued, "is due the fact that you are breathing oxygen at this moment; and had I not invented a liquid which fortifies animate or inanimate bodies against heat and cold, our rush through the atmosphere of the earth would have incinerated this car and its contents—nay, would have caused it to explode and settle back on our native planet in impalpable powder."
— from Adrift in the Unknown; or, Queer Adventures in a Queer Realm by William Wallace Cook

A stately Georgian house, built in a rich classical style, and dating from 1740: so a trained eye would have interpreted the architectural and decorative features faintly disclosed by lamp and fire.
— from The Mating of Lydia by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.