And Chinghis addressed the Tartars and Moal, saying: 'It is because we have no leader that we are thus oppressed by our neighbours.'
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

The old BAG OF NAILS at Pimlico; originally the BACCHANALS.
— from 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

Though Birnam Wood be come to Dunsinane, And thou opposed, being of no woman born, Yet I will try the last.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

But with all their eyes again riveted upon the swart Fedallah and his crew, the inmates of the other boats obeyed not the command.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

If you had not caught this one, it might have laid eggs enough to raise worms enough to destroy thousands of our nut trees—thousands of bushels of nuts—and make years and years of trouble for us.’
— from Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

For since Thou hast commanded us not continency alone, that is, from what things to refrain our love, but righteousness also, that is, whereon to bestow it, and hast willed us to love not Thee only, but our neighbour also; often, when pleased with intelligent praise, I seem to myself to be pleased with the proficiency or towardliness of my neighbour, or to be grieved for evil in him, when I hear him dispraise either what he understands not, or is good.
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

We would have these gentlemen know we can see what is odd in characters as well as themselves, but it is our business to relate facts as they are; which, when we have done, it is the part of the learned and sagacious reader to consult that original book of nature, whence every passage in our work is transcribed, though we quote not always the particular page for its authority.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Dr. Hellmuth was chosen on July 19, 1871, by a large majority of the diocesan synod to be Bishop Coadjutor of Huron, with the title of Bishop of Norfolk and the right of succession.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

It is then rather that he was forced to say it, when the occasion presented itself, than that he said it, when the occasion presented itself, the one being of necessity, the other of chance.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

“You’re tired of Bly?” “Oh, no, I like Bly.”
— from The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

There was only to be feared the Grand-Duke Michael, the only brother of Nicholas II.
— from Confessions of the Czarina by Radziwill, Catherine, Princess

The late Emperor's nightcaps, and thinks, of bestowing One nightcap apiece (if he has them to spare)
— from The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Thomas Moore

But the other branches of natural history are not rich here.
— from Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823 by Callcott, Maria, Lady

When one of them has said all he can say, he adds—"The question is whether even this book will convey any information to one before whom the writings of the Sages and the open book of Nature are exhibited in vain."
— from The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry by M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison) Muir

My husband appealed to Oliver Cowdery, who was justice of the peace, to have him brought to order; but Oliver never moved from his seat.
— from History of the Prophet Joseph, by His Mother by Lucy Smith

Probably, we may conjecture, because that force had no one commander in chief, but were an aggregation of independent bodies, whom ties of blood or neighbourhood drew together in the armament and in action.
— from Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, Vol. 3 of 3 I. Agorè: Polities of the Homeric Age. II. Ilios: Trojans and Greeks Compared. III. Thalassa: The Outer Geography. IV. Aoidos: Some Points of the Poetry of Homer. by W. E. (William Ewart) Gladstone

[249] made no real difference to us whether we saw the other boats or not; they could not help us.
— from A Jolly Fellowship by Frank Richard Stockton

The offer of so great a friend, exchang'd in that good pride, Curets of gold for those of brass, that did on Diomed shine, One of a hundred oxen's price, the other but of nine, By this, had Hector reach'd the ports of Scæa, and the tow'rs.
— from The Iliads of Homer Translated according to the Greek by Homer

It contemplated at first the occupation of Santo Domingo, the quelling of the insurrection there, then the seizure of Louisiana, already promised to France by Spain, then the acquisition of Florida, the conversion of the Gulf of Mexico into a French lake, and ultimately the extension of the province of Louisiana to the Alleghanies and, perhaps, even to the old borders of New France along the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence.
— from The French in the Heart of America by John H. (John Huston) Finley