The very union of the two kingdoms of England and Scotland seems to have accentuated the pettier national jealousies, so that Southrons annoyed Northerners by hoisting the St. George above the St. Andrew, and the Scotchmen retaliated by a species of tu quoque .
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

The regular anniversary meeting of the National Association was to begin in New York on May 9, and on the 6th Miss Anthony reached the city to prevent, if possible, the threatened coalition with the proposed new party.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

But M. Vinteuil assured them that it was, and indeed it is remarkable that people never fail to arouse admiration of their normal qualities in the relatives of anyone with whom they are in physical intercourse.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

It was to be a defensive, not an offensive alliance; the Ambraciots could not be required to march with the Acarnanians against the Peloponnesians, nor the Acarnanians with the Ambraciots against the Athenians; for the rest the Ambraciots were to give up the places and hostages that they held of the Amphilochians, and not to give help to Anactorium, which was at enmity with the Acarnanians.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

The reanimation of Jairus's daughter was in the same concealed manner, in a private room, where nobody was admitted but his three confidential disciples (Peter, James, and John) and the parents, none of whom make any report of the case.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

These persons naturally looked to France, at the commencement of the Revolution, and during all the horrors of that Revolution still cherished a hope that, by the aid of France, they might be enabled to establish a new order of things in Naples.
— from The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey

“They believe that from the miscellaneous contents in the belly of the skin bag or animal there issues a spirit or breath, which has the power, not only to knock down and kill a man, but also to set him up and restore him to life.”
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Sound of the Alarm-Cannon on the Pont Neuf; which it is death by the Law to fire without order from us!
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

He had ordered a fresh bottle when the prince arrived; this took him an hour to drink, and then he had another, and another, during the consumption of which he told pretty nearly the whole story of his life.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Whether we like it, or dislike it” (remarked a learned writer in the first quarter of the nineteenth century), “the present New Testament Canon is neither more nor less than the probat of the orthodox Christian bishops, and those not only of the first and second, but of the third and fourth, and even subsequent centuries 11 .”
— from The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by John William Burgon

Guesses drawn from the general nature of things can no longer give us light as to the particular nature of the things pertaining to primitive men, any more than such guesses can teach us the law of the movement of the heavenly bodies, or the foundations of jurisprudence.
— from Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2) by John Morley

Una was to pass near the gates of the next world a little while later, and doubtless my father often during that dark period pictured her to himself as a spirit.
— from Hawthorne and His Circle by Julian Hawthorne

I was a privateersman, he proclaimed, and he the captain of the British frigate Terpsichore, of—I forget the precise number of guns.
— from The Golden Age by Kenneth Grahame

Prime Minister Hamada MADI (since late November 2000) cabinet: Council of Ministers appointed by the president elections: president elected by popular vote for a five-year term; election last held 6 and 16 March 1996 (next to be held NA); prime minister appointed by the president note: President AZALI claimed a one-year term at the time of the coup; but
— from The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

"Quod multo sanguine, pecunia incredibili, spatio multorum annorum Galli acquisierant, uno die magna cum ignominia tradiderunt," says the papal nuncio, Santa Croce, De civil.
— from History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 by Henry Martyn Baird

Their partisans assert his incapacity in reference to all nations; if they can not command universal assent to the proposition, it is then demanded to particular nations; and our pride and our presumption too often make converts of us.
— from William Jennings Bryan: A Concise But Complete Story of His Life and Services by Harvey Ellsworth Newbranch