Or again when somebody is asked if he knows the romance “The Emperor Joseph and The Beautiful Railway-signal-man’s Daughter,” the anachronism of the title does not occur to him, and nobody thinks of the impossibilities of the vivid description of a man walking back and forth, with his hands behind his back, reading a newspaper.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

De Luchet himself recognizes the obstacle to his obtaining a hearing: there are too many "passions interested in supporting the system of the Illuminés," too many deluded rulers imagining themselves enlightened ready to precipitate their people into the abyss, whilst "the heads of the Order will never relinquish the authority they have acquired nor the treasure at their disposal."
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

They obeyed, and he slept at one stretch, as the saying is, more than six hours, so that the housekeeper and niece thought he was going to sleep for ever.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

And what's more, I expect they have already noticed themselves, or even if they haven't, this affair is really not so important to me as they think.
— from The Trial by Franz Kafka

He had given stringent orders to his army not to molest the inhabitants nor take anything from them by force.
— from The Art of War by active 6th century B.C. Sunzi

" When Cyrus heard that, he answered: "You forget, sirs, my father's empire stretches southwards to a region where men cannot dwell by reason of the heat, and northwards to a region uninhabitable through cold; but all the intervening space is mapped out in satrapies belonging to my brother's friends: so that if the victory be ours, it will be ours also to put our friends in possession in their room.
— from Anabasis by Xenophon

Philopoemen, in an encounter with Machanidas, having sent before a good strong party of his archers and slingers to begin the skirmish, and these being routed and hotly pursued by the enemy, who, pushing on the fortune of their arms, and in that pursuit passing by the battalion where Philopoemen was, though his soldiers were impatient to fall on, he did not think fit to stir from his post nor to present himself to the enemy to relieve his men, but having suffered these to be chased and cut in pieces before his face, charged in upon the enemy’s foot when he saw them left unprotected by the horse, and notwithstanding that they were Lacedaemonians, yet taking them in the nick, when thinking themselves secure of the victory, they began to disorder their ranks; he did this business with great facility, and then put himself in pursuit of Machanidas.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Hearing of the baby's illness, he had conscientiously gone to the house after nightfall to perform the rite, and, unaware that the refusal to admit him had come from Tess's father and not from Tess, he could not allow the plea of necessity for its irregular administration.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

These were planted against the end of the house, and none too soon, for the corner nearest the burning stacks was beginning to blaze furiously, and the fire steadily running up, while a peculiar popping and crackling began to be heard as the flames attacked the abundant ivy which mounted quite to the chimney-stack.
— from Dick o' the Fens: A Tale of the Great East Swamp by George Manville Fenn

In this work I shall always refer the densities of all gases to hydrogen, and not to air; I will therefore give, for the sake of clearness, the weight of a litre of dry pure hydrogen in grams at a temperature t ° and under a pressure H (measured in millimetres of mercury at 0°, in lat.
— from The Principles of Chemistry, Volume I by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev

The high and noble talents that characterized their progenitors are not seen, but there is now exhibited, among their descendants, imbecility and the most revolting forms of nervous disease.
— from A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) by Calvin Cutter

Today, a great hollow in the side of the hill and near the road marks the spot where the buildings stood.
— from The White Sister by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

There was a large rope swing near the house and near to the entrance to the garden.
— from The Hermitage, Home of Old Hickory by Stanley F. Horn

He goes to hunt up Marcia's property, and is tempted to hand it over to her and never trouble his head about it again.
— from Floyd Grandon's Honor by Amanda M. Douglas

Connect this feeling with the message of the Apocalypse to the church of Sardis, "Thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead , and then look around and ask, Where are the churches?
— from Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity by Robert Patterson

The next morning, about two hours after noon, Tancred called on Lady Bertie.
— from Tancred; Or, The New Crusade by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

These horses are not to be bought even for 1,000 or 2,000 dollars.
— from India under Ripon: A Private Diary by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

[Charles, when residing at Brussels, went to the Hague at night to pay a secret visit to his sister, the Princess of Orange.
— from Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1662 N.S. by Samuel Pepys