They had no trouble in Wall Street, and they paid their respects in person to the famous Jim Fisk in his Opera-House Palace; but the New York side of the story helped Henry little.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

[99] We find it sometimes asserted by persons of enthusiastic and passionate temperament, that there are feelings so exquisitely delightful, that one moment of their rapture is preferable to an eternity of agreeable consciousness of an inferior kind.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

The mock Homage they paid the Romans, ib. Pompey the Great, appointed General against them , 22 .
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

There were as yet no tidings of Gurth and his charge, which should long since have been driven home from the forest and such was the insecurity of the period, as to render it probable that the delay might be explained by some depreciation of the outlaws, with whom the adjacent forest abounded, or by the violence of some neighbouring baron, whose consciousness of strength made him equally negligent of the laws of property.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

I directed the horses to be hubbled to prevent delay in the morning being determined to make a forced march tomorrow in order to reach if possible the open country.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

“The Hurons, if they come, may not gain our position so easily as they think,” he slowly muttered; and propping his head back against the rock, he seemed to await the result in patience, though his gaze was unceasingly bent on the open avenue to their place of retreat.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

If he is rejected, he is indignant that the lodge has been deprived of this pecuniary accession, and forthwith he sets to work to reverse, if possible, the decision of the ballot box, and by a volunteer defense of the rejected candidate, and violent denunciations of those who opposed him, he seeks to alarm the timid and disgust the intelligent, so that, on a reconsideration , they may be induced to withdraw their opposition.
— from The Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Landmarks of Freemasonry by Albert Gallatin Mackey

The rest is 'plain text'.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

With these remarks I present these volumes to the public, asking no favor but hoping they will meet the approval of the reader.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

In such a case, care must be taken not only to avoid engaging the corps making the demonstration, but to recall it promptly toward the main body.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

All money wagered on that race is pooled, the Jockey Club, to which the whole establishment belongs, skimming off ten per cent.
— from Working North from Patagonia Being the Narrative of a Journey, Earned on the Way, Through Southern and Eastern South America by Harry Alverson Franck

We did so, and on reaching the bank of the river, I pointed to the plant.
— from Ornithological Biography, Volume 1 (of 5) An Account of the Habits of the Birds of the United States of America by John James Audubon

The circumstantial evidence certainly went no farther than to render it probable that if General Ketchum died of poison it was administered by Mrs. Wharton.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 by Various

Permit me, sir, to recommend in particular, those who have continued in the service to the present moment, as worthy of the favourable notice and patronage of congress.
— from The Life of George Washington: A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Editions by John Marshall

The ultimate tendency of this complicated struggle was to strip Christianity as bare as Islam of every vestige of ancient priestcraft, to revert to the Bible documents as authority, and to recover, if possible, the primordial teachings of Jesus.
— from The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

This the soul now and then perceives in a glance, which lasts but for a moment, and then vanishes again; [pg 236] but it puts the soul upon fervent desires, to recover, if possible, that beam of heavenly joy which darted upon her, and to regain this divine taste, which so lovingly moved her.
— from True Christianity A Treatise on Sincere Repentence, True Faith, the Holy Walk of the True Christian, Etc. by Johann Arndt

The natural consequence was that Cromwell took possession of Edinburgh unopposed; and though he did not proceed to further conquest, there being political dissension enough among the Scots to render it probable that peaceable measures would suffice, yet to all intents and purposes Dunbar rendered him master of the Lowlands.
— from Battles of English History by H. B. (Hereford Brooke) George

It may be well to remark, in passing, that as the manuscript of this letter of Scotus is still in existence, the claims of Francis founded on handwriting will have to go the same way, for proof on genuine handwriting is doubtful , but proof on disguised handwriting is worthless .
— from Junius Unmasked Or, Thomas Paine the author of the Letters of Junius and the Declaration of Independence by Joel Moody

In the respect it pays to finite life lies its sharp contrast with mysticism.
— from Beethoven and His Forerunners by Daniel Gregory Mason