An illustration of this is furnished by the honour with which some of the inhabitants of the continent still regard a successful marauder, and by the question we find the old poets everywhere representing the people as asking of voyagers—"Are they pirates?"—as if those who are asked the question would have no idea of disclaiming the imputation, or their interrogators of reproaching them for it.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

"Some Thoughts on Progress," Educational Review , XXIX (1905), 1-17. III.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

The opposing party either retire or conform.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

The greater part of the human race still belong to religions which, in their origin, promised eternal repose as the supreme final bliss.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

But it was in the palmy times of Dom Manuel that the palace of Cintra became the centre of culture, wit, and poetry, where gaily-clad courtiers listened to the wondrous tales of Portuguese explorers returned from Africa and the Indies, and poets 223 sang the national epics telling of the opening of the mystic East with its wealth untold to Portuguese commerce and dominion.
— from Through Portugal by Martin A. S. (Martin Andrew Sharp) Hume

The canyon, a mere shapeless gash in the side of the great hills, was deep, long, undulating, ever twisting about like some immense serpent, its sides darkened by clinging cedars and bunches of chaparral, and rising in irregular terraces of partially exposed rock toward a narrow strip of blue sky.
— from Beth Norvell: A Romance of the West by Randall Parrish

The minister in reducing the duty, so that wines may be sold at one shilling per bottle cheaper, has done much to increase the spirits of the people; at the same time he has adopted another measure that will in a few months DESTROY THE FREE TRADE of every person in the kingdom to obtain for a small sum a great fortune in a few weeks, by having determined to abolish Lotteries, which must soon end for ever; therefore, the present is one of the last opportunities to buy, &c. “ Bish ,” according to the old plan, “ever ready to serve his friends,” issued THE AMBULATOR’S GUIDE to the Land of Plenty.
— from The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 2 (of 3) or Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac by William Hone

—The descriptive writer in the Daily Telegraph , giving his account of the opening of Parliament, observed that "Hypercritics have combated the generally accepted axiom that one pea entirely resembles another," and he went on to show how one parliamentary crowd resembled any other parliamentary crowd at the initial ceremony.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 108, February 16, 1895 by Various

[Mahmadruzi ISKANDAROV (imprisoned October 2005); Rahmatullo VALIYEV, deputy]; Islamic Revival Party [Muhiddin KABIRI]; Party of Economic Reform or PER [Olimzon BOBOYEV]; People's Democratic Party of Tajikistan or PDPT [Emomali RAHMON]; Social Democratic Party or SDPT
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

The seat of these courts was Ludlow, a place that even to our partial eyes rivalled Shrewsbury in beauty and is counted by many the banner town of England.
— from From Gretna Green to Land's End: A Literary Journey in England. by Katharine Lee Bates

But even the old peer, ever ready to exaggerate his early difficulties, had not enough effrontery to represent that their dejection lasted more than three days.
— from A Book About Lawyers by John Cordy Jeaffreson

In the species figured, the Antennarius Iaevigatus, the skin is smooth, and furnished with short loose processes; the filament on the head is short, and terminated by a small knob of clustered minute filaments; this is succeeded by two other processes, each resembling a fin supported by a single ray, and fringed, especially towards its upper part, by loose portions of skin; to these succeed the back fin, supported, as usual, by many rays.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 564, September 1, 1832 by Various

Kennedy the Boatsteerer he was called; although twenty years had passed and gone since that day at Wallis Island when he, a bright-eyed, bronze-faced lad—with the fighting-blood of the old Puritan Endicotts running like fire through his veins despite his New England bringing-up—ran his knife into a shipmate's heart and fled for ever from all white associations.
— from The Ebbing Of The Tide South Sea Stories - 1896 by Louis Becke

The rubric says nothing about sitting; standing and kneeling being the only postures expressly recognised.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 224, February 11, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various