Bagumbayan began to be a veritable field of blood, as the old methods of repression were resorted to for the purpose of striking terror into the native population by wholesale executions, nor did the ruling powers realize that the time for such methods had passed.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

Therefore the Apostles, and their Successors, are to follow but the outward marks of Repentance; which appearing, they have no Authority to deny Absolution; and if they appeare not, they have no authority to Absolve.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

when cloves are not to be had use double the quantity of Allspice, and when no spice can be obtained use the bark of the root of sausafras; when sperits cannot be had use oil stone of the beaver adding mearly a sufficient quantity to moisten the other materials, or reduce it to a stif past.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

The victorious Syracusans and allies were cheering each other on with loud cries, by night the only possible means of communication, and meanwhile receiving all who came against them; while the Athenians were seeking for one another, taking all in front of them for enemies, even although they might be some of their now flying friends; and by constantly asking for the watchword, which was their only means of recognition, not only caused great confusion among themselves by asking all at once, but also made it known to the enemy, whose own they did not so readily discover, as the Syracusans were victorious and not scattered, and thus less easily mistaken.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

He was bled, and many other of the ordinary means of relief were adopted.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

I will not touch on it either, but will only venture to observe that if a lofty and high-principled person, such as that highly respected young lady unquestionably is, if such a person, I say, allows herself suddenly in court to contradict her first statement, with the obvious motive of ruining the prisoner, it is clear that this evidence has been given not impartially, not coolly.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

185 Justin Martyr had sought divine knowledge in the schools of Zeno, of Aristotle, of Pythagoras, and of Plato, before he fortunately was accosted by the old man, or rather the angel, who turned his attention to the study of the Jewish prophets.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

So grave the silly creature's face, That one might well have set him down That old musician of renown.
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

I cannot, however, help thinking, that the story which attributes the preservation of these poems to Lycurgus, is little else than a version of the same story as that of Peisistratus, while its historical probability must be measured by that of many others relating to the Spartan Confucius.
— from The Odyssey by Homer

why you did not answer me frankly when we were together with that old man on Roche Rock?"
— from Mistress Nancy Molesworth: A Tale of Adventure by Joseph Hocking

The success which this organized method of reporting treason later obtained, is one of the most striking proofs of the relentless energy of its originator.
— from Life and Letters of Thomas Cromwell, Vol. 1 of 2 Life, Letters to 1535 by Roger Bigelow Merriman

But the Mass was restored, the old modes of religious worship were again held in honour, and religious dissension between the Government and its Irish subjects came for the time to an end.
— from History of the English People, Volume IV by John Richard Green

So slight is the plot in Children Wanted that one might on reflection question whether there is a plot.
— from Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories; Second Series by James Edmund Dunning

I am very far from intending to excite an interest of this, kind, but reading the work of M. Bourrienne put me again on the track of my own recollections.
— from Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon — Complete by Louis Constant Wairy

The character of Mars, according to the oldest mode of representing it, is evidently an abbreviation of the word Θοῦρος , under which the Greek mathematicians understood that deity; or, in other words, the first letter Θ , with the last letter ς placed above it.
— from A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume 2 (of 2) by Johann Beckmann

You can’t expect me, any of you, to overpraise my own relations, and, naturally, I shouldn’t abuse them.”
— from Betty Vivian: A Story of Haddo Court School by L. T. Meade

It is no unrighteousness in God to offer grace unto the world, though but on these terms only, that they are also foreseen by him infallibly to reject; both because to reject it is unreasonable, especially the terms being so reasonable, as to believe the truth and live; and also because it is grace and mercy in God, so much as once to offer means of reconciliation to a sinner, he being the offender; but the Lord, the God offended; they being but dust and ashes, he the heavenly Majesty.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

"According to our manner of regarding the 073 organisation of mammals, there is only a single animal modified by the inverse reciprocal variation of all or some of its parts.
— from Form and Function: A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell

It is not necessary to discuss the obvious method of repeating strokes, dots, knots, human heads or forms, weapons, and totemic designs, to designate the number of persons or articles referred to in the pictographs where they appear.
— from Picture-Writing of the American Indians Tenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1888-89, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1893, pages 3-822 by Garrick Mallery