From these tribes, then, he mustered an army as large as that which marched with him from home, or rather many followed him because they were his own people, allied to him by the ties of race, but our subjects—for so we must call them—I mean all his Roman troops followed from compulsion and not from choice, like mercenary allies, and their position and rôle was like that of the proverbial Carian, 259 since they were naturally ill-disposed to a barbarian and a stranger who had conceived the idea of ruling and embarked on the enterprise at the time of a drunken debauch, and was the sort of leader that one might expect from such a preface and prelude as that.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 1 by Emperor of Rome Julian

The gentleman who said these words in a clear, bright, hospitable voice had one of his arms round Ada's waist and the other round mine, and kissed us both in a fatherly way, and bore us across the hall into a ruddy little room, all in a glow with a blazing fire.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

In order to give more weight to our remarks, we will extract, almost word for word, a few pages from the learned and excellent work which M. Jules Quicherat has published on this subject.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

The incensed Holkar sent for the Rana’s ambassadors, and assailed them with a torrent of reproach; accusing them of treachery, he threw the newspaper containing the information at Kishandas, asking if that were the way in which the Mewaris kept faith with him?
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

Still retaining traces of remarkable comeliness, his bright, black, oblong eyes had a peculiar attraction, and his every well-bred, refined feature showed that symmetry of youth, that air of superiority to the rest of the world which usually disappears when once the twenties have been passed.
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Upon which the people of Israel were presently divided, and part of them would have Tibni to be king, and part Omri; but when those that were for Omri's ruling had beaten Tibni, Omri reigned over all the multitude.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

To-day, to him gazing South with a new-born need stirring in his heart, the clear sky over their long low outline seemed to pulsate with promise; to-day, the unseen was everything, the unknown the only real fact of life.
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

” Quite aside from this Chaucerian “erse” slapping, Clemens had also a semi-serious purpose, that of reproducing a past time as he saw it in Shakespeare, Dekker, Jonson, and other writers of the Elizabethan era.
— from 1601: Conversation as it was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors by Mark Twain

But we were already so far from home, and would be compelled to accept battle whenever offered, with the Chattahoochee to our rear, that it became imperative for me to take all prudential measures the case admitted of, and I therefore determined to pass the river above the railroad-bridge-McPherson on the left, Schofield in the centre, and Thomas on the right.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

And the blue sky in which the private earth is buried, the sky with its eternal calm, and full of everlasting orbs, is the type of Reason.
— from Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Cal Davidson, whatever may be his taste in neckties or waistcoats, seems to me excellent in this other regard.
— from The Lady and the Pirate Being the Plain Tale of a Diligent Pirate and a Fair Captive by Emerson Hough

The master in this respect had gone beyond all the ordinary refinement of luxury, in the hope of reanimating, by the influence of voluptuous imagery, a physical nature that was dead.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

School of Discipline .—This is the oldest Reformatory for young girls in London.
— from Chelsea, in the Olden & Present Times by George Bryan

241-44, the position of football games as elements in the traditions of race is discussed, and their relationship to a still earlier form of tribal games, where the element of clan feuds is more decidedly preserved, is pointed out.
— from The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland (Vol 1 of 2) With Tunes, Singing-Rhymes and Methods of Playing etc. by Alice Bertha Gomme

[205] The legal basis of the act of December 22 was then the same as that of the original Reconstruction Acts.
— from The Reconstruction of Georgia Studies in History, Economics and Public Law, Vol. 13, No. 3, 1901 by Edwin C. (Edwin Campbell) Woolley

The animals, representing the starry constellations, first reverenced as symbols merely, came to be worshipped as gods; the heavens, earth, and the operations of nature were personified; and fictitious personages invented to account for the introduction of science and arts, and the fragments of the old religious truths; and the good and bad principles personified, became also objects of worship; while, through all, still shone the silver threads of the old primitive revelation.
— from Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike

No sooner did word reach Betty that her uncle awaited her in the oil regions than Bob announced that he was going West, too.
— from Betty Gordon in the Land of Oil; Or, The Farm That Was Worth a Fortune by Alice B. Emerson

First, in that they use them as the bellows to blow up the fire of contention among us, remembering the old rule, divide et impera .
— from The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by George Gillespie

Doors or gates opening outwards — Forms of notice necessary — Vaults or cellar coverings — Forms of notice necessary — Advantages of an “Easement book” — Rain water from shutes or down pipes — Form of notice necessary — Blinds or awnings over paths — Trees overhanging roadways — Form of notice necessary — Surface water from premises — Hoardings and scaffolds — Dangerous Buildings — Tall chimney shafts — Dangerous rock — Forms of notice necessary — Temporary obstructions 174 CHAPTER XVII.
— from The Municipal and Sanitary Engineer's Handbook by H. Percy (Henry Percy) Boulnois