Nevertheless, if any one should ask of me how comes it that the Church has attained such greatness in temporal power, seeing that from Alexander backwards the Italian potentates (not only those who have been called potentates, but every baron and lord, though the smallest) have valued the temporal power very slightly—yet now a king of France trembles before it, and it has been able to drive him from Italy, and to ruin the Venetians—although this may be very manifest, it does not appear to me superfluous to recall it in some measure to memory.
— from The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

The Totonaque tribes, as well as the Mexicans, [Pg 247] began to throw out threats, and the profound veneration in which they before held us was now changed for utter contempt.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

A thousand pulpits vacant in a single religious denomination, a thousand preachers standing idle in the market place, while a thousand church committees scour the land for men to fill those same vacant pulpits, and scour in vain, is a sufficient indication, in one direction at least, of the largeness of the opportunities of the age, and also of the crying need of good men.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

Thus, in “Dick sold John his bicycle,” John is an adverbial modifier of the predicate verb sold .
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

Mrs. Shaldin and her trunk had arrived hardly half an hour before, yet the captain’s wife was already there paying visit; which was a sign of the warm friendship that existed between the two women.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

During her stay at this pleasant villa, Emily was thus rendered miserable by the assiduities of Morano, together with the cruelly exerted authority of M. Quesnel and Montoni, who, with her aunt, seemed now more resolutely determined upon this marriage than they had even appeared to be at Venice.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

Such at least is the poetical version of a crooked rug as the seller tells it.
— from The Oriental Rug A Monograph on Eastern Rugs and Carpets, Saddle-Bags, Mats & Pillows, with a Consideration of Kinds and Classes, Types, Borders, Figures, Dyes, Symbols, etc. Together with Some Practical Advice to Collectors. by William De Lancey Ellwanger

The passion, vehemence and haste of Othello affect him, because he perceives them; but if he does not perceive the hints which [427] show the duration of the action from the arrival in Cyprus to the murder, these hints have simply no existence for him and are perfectly useless.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

He saw that in some manner he shocked them, and gave up that aspect of the matter altogether, and tried to show them the practical value of sight.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

However this may be, one of the principal buccaneer leaders, named de Grammont, was left by de Pouançay at the Isle d'Aves to recover what he could from the wreck, and to repair some of the privateering vessels.
— from The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century by Clarence Henry Haring

This, of course, would be too late to help the patient Van Artevelde was bringing, but Heemskerk had no personal interest in the patient.
— from Wind by Charles L. Fontenay

Now the point is not only that this view of the Irish is false, but that it is the particular view that the Americans know to be false.
— from What I Saw in America by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

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— from Medical Jurisprudence as it Relates to Insanity, According to the Law of England by John Haslam

Having taken the lead in her son's education for several years, and perhaps believing that he was quite faultless, she gradually relaxed the severity of her studies, and, ranging the ponderous volumes over which she had pored during many a day upon the shelf, she devoted herself to active concerns, and became so expert in buying and selling, farming and feeding, that every year found a new deposit in the hands of Mr. Fairly, the stock-broker.
— from Tales of My Time, Vol. 1 (of 3) Who Is She? by William Pitt Scargill

Then again, the numerous factories on the plantations in the northern territories and on the Tanganyika Railway were adapted to produce various means of subsistence.
— from My Reminiscences of East Africa by General von (Paul Emil) Lettow-Vorbeck

Youth and beauty make up so much of their personal value, so much of their natural final cause, that when these are gone many feel as if their whole career were at an end, and as if nothing were left to them now that they are no longer young enough to be loved as girls are loved, or pretty enough to be admired as mature sirens are admired.
— from The Girl of the Period, and Other Social Essays, Vol. 1 (of 2) by E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn) Linton

It seems he was seized with a bilious complaint, for which he administered a strong solution of vitriolic acid, so powerful as to produce violent and burning pains, that threatened to be fatal unless immediate relief could be procured, which was attempted to be got by a powerful dose of tartar emetic.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 328, August 23, 1828 by Various

Down to the Plaza Victoria, with its dim arcades, or to the 25 de Mayo, with its cathedral, its stunted paradise trees.
— from The Wind Bloweth by Donn Byrne

Pastor, “History of the Popes,” volume vii., English translation, p. 361.
— from Luther, vol. 1 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar