Some are afraid that they shall have every fearful disease they see others have, hear of, or read, and dare not therefore hear or read of any such subject, no not of melancholy itself, lest by applying to themselves that which they hear or read, they should aggravate and increase it.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

It takes a woman to get any thing through the Land Office: I tell you, Miss Laura would fascinate an appropriation right through the Senate and the House of Representatives in one session, if she was in Washington, as your friend, Colonel, of course as your friend.”
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

Notwithstanding these drawbacks, Percy's Reliques marks an epoch in the history of Romanticism, and it is difficult to measure its influence on the whole romantic movement.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

Mr. Chappell quotes also, in illustration of the familiar knowledge of this tune and its name in Addison's time, from 'the History of Robert Powell, the Puppet Showman (1715),' that 'upon the Preludis being ended, each party fell to bawling and calling for particular tunes.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

"Ru-ru." To avoid meeting him, Laptev went into the dining-room, and then went downstairs to his own room.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

When they advanced the next day the Syracusans surrounded and attacked them on every side, and disabled many of them, falling back if the Athenians advanced and coming on if they retired, and in particular assaulting their rear, in the hope of routing them in detail, and thus striking a panic into the whole army.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

The humanity of Rome's laws of war.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

If any man doubts the reality of them, or thinks it impossible for a man to be such a bubble to himself,—I must refer him a moment to his own reflections, and will then venture to trust my appeal with his own heart.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

He was continued till Aug. 6. when he was again before the justiciary and indicted; which made him write two letters, one to the advocate and the other to his old regent Sir William Paterson, which he thought somewhat mitigated their fury.
— from Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies by John Howie

In the years from 1589 to 1591 inclusive Lodge was engaged on another type of work, represented by Scillæ's Metamorphosis, Rosalynde, The History of Robert, second Duke of Normandy , and Catharos , certainly as far removed as possible from the moralising vein of A Looking-Glass .
— from Robert Greene: [Six Plays] by Robert Greene

The connection of these poems with the ecclesiastical dramas, which form such a remarkable chapter in the history of religious instruction in the Middle Age, is also apparent, and scores of them are simply narratives of the Nativity, the Crucifixion, the Resurrection, and the Ascension, told over and over in almost identical language.
— from Music in the History of the Western Church With an Introduction on Religious Music Among Primitive and Ancient Peoples by Edward Dickinson

cort a small reserve force behind the center of that horseshoe of ramparts.
— from Ride Proud, Rebel! by Andre Norton

He was not precisely the sort of traveller to write a paper for the evening meetings of the Royal Geographical Society, nor was he sufficiently interested in philosophical theories to speculate on the developments of Mormonism as illustrative of the history of religious belief.
— from The Complete Works of Artemus Ward — Part 1: Essays, Sketches, and Letters by Artemus Ward

Colwyn stood at his door watching her until she disappeared into the passage which led to her own room.
— from The Shrieking Pit by Arthur J. (Arthur John) Rees

He had just come from the House of Representatives.
— from The Evolution of Photography With a Chronological Record of Discoveries, Inventions, Etc., Contributions to Photographic Literature, and Personal Reminescences Extending over Forty Years by Werge, John, active 1854-1890

REMARKS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, ON TAYLOR'S NOMINATION DEFENSE OF
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete by Abraham Lincoln

McKinley had served a long time in the House of Representatives before becoming a candidate for the Presidency.
— from The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 6 August 1906 by Various