The Law is made by the Soveraign Power, and all that is done by such Power, is warranted, and owned by every one of the people; and that which every man will have so, no man can say is unjust.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

2 place that is dangerous because of the type of people that live there.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

He enjoyed letting the Gormers see that he had known "Miss Lily"—she was "Miss Lily" to him now—before they had had the faintest social existence: enjoyed more especially impressing Paul Morpeth with the distance to which their intimacy dated back.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

This is dangerous, because it implies the belief that the case is settled by giving a minimum sentence, where really an infinity of grades and differences may enter.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

Sir , I PRESUME you rather try what you can doe in me, then what I can doe in verse; you know my uttermost when it was best, and even then I did best when I had least truth for my subjects.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

Any Gesture That Merely Calls Attention to Itself Is Bad The purpose of a gesture is to carry your thought and feeling into the minds and hearts of your hearers; this it does by emphasizing your message, by interpreting it, by expressing it in action, by striking its tone in either a physically descriptive, a suggestive, or a typical gesture—and let it be remembered all the time that gesture includes all physical movement, from facial expression and the tossing of the head to the expressive movements of hand and foot.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

Paré mentions a hammer made of lead, and Fabricius describes one padded with leather, but neither of these is described by the ancients.
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

“ ‘Do you mean that it disappeared before you went for help?’ “ ‘Yes, it was gone.’
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

This is doubted by Peets.
— from Wolfville Nights by Alfred Henry Lewis

This is done by the umpire, who takes charge of the game and decides any disputes.
— from Things Worth Doing and How To Do Them by Lina Beard

He it is that proposes that each shall tell a tale to while away the time to Canterbury, and leads them himself, and concludes with his own tale:— "Now, by my fader's soule that is ded, But ye be mery, smiteth of my hed: Hold up your hondes withouten more speche."
— from Excursions by Henry David Thoreau

This is done by collecting it in a weighed and exhausted globe, while the amount by weight of oxygen is shown by the increase in weight of the tube with the copper after the experiment.
— from The Principles of Chemistry, Volume I by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev

the word "Honey," with plenty of French and Fortnum on another pasted label, stared him in the face; it was sweet and slimy too about the neck; there was no sort of jingle when he shook the crock; what though it be heavy?—honey's heavy; and it was tied over quite in a common way with pig's bladder, and his clumsy trembling fingers could not undo that knot; and thus, with a miserable sense of cheated poverty, he threw it down beside the path, and would, perhaps, have flung it right away in sheer disgust, but for the reflection that the little ones might like it.
— from The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper by Martin Farquhar Tupper

"Perhaps she is," replied his mother; "and the more she learns and does, and the more she becomes my friend,—the more I respect her: but it is impossible to love her more than I did before she could speak or walk.
— from The Crofton Boys by Harriet Martineau

When I left the train I did business with divers Kings, and in eight days passed through many changes of life.
— from The Works of Rudyard Kipling: One Volume Edition by Rudyard Kipling

The whole of this apparatus evinces much scientific ability of the inventor, Daniel Barnum, Esq., resident at present in this city, and who has received many certificates from the first scientific men in the Union, in commendation of his invention.
— from Scientific American magazine Vol 2. No. 3 Oct 10 1846 The Advocate of Industry and Journal of Scientific, Mechanical and Other Improvements by Various

Ravaged by the infidels, devastated by locusts, and visited by an earthquake, i. 291 .
— from The History of the Crusades (vol. 3 of 3) by J. Fr. (Joseph Fr.) Michaud