The captain replied to them that he could not leave them any men then, but that if they wished to become Christians, our priest would baptize them, and that he would next time bring priests and friars who would instruct them in our faith.
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

I passed the morning in taking medicines, particularly, I know not what kind of waters, but believe they were those of Vals, and in writing to Madam de Larnage: for the correspondence was regularly kept up, and Rousseau kindly undertook to receive these letters for his good friend Dudding.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

This would trouble and irritate some people; the sublime equanimity of the hired boatman under the ordeal affords us a beautiful lesson against ambition and uppishness.
— from Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

Struggling and striving are passionate tendencies which take possession of groups from time to time.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

I have the honor to call your attention to another fact: to wit, that there are but twenty Procureurs Generaux at a time in all France, while there are some twenty thousand of you young men who aspire to that elevated position; that there are some mountebanks among you who would sell their family to screw their fortunes a peg higher.
— from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

I came here to-day to maintain it, and I’ll come here again fifty times with the same object and always with the same success.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

[ 527 ] Let us examine these amiable liberties thus taken with the facts of history by men of irreproachable private character, briefly analyzing their action.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

Those people, who find Sebond’s arguments too weak, that are ignorant of nothing, that govern the world, that know all,— Qu mare compescant caus; quid temperet annum; Stell sponte su, jussve, vagentur et errent; Quid premat obscurum lun, quid profrt orbem; Quid velit et posait rerum concordia discors; “What governs ocean’s tides, And through the various year the seasons guides; Whether the stars by their own proper force, Or foreign power, pursue their wand’ring course; Why shadows darken the pale queen of night;
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

At that moment he was only caring for what would recommend the Farebrother family; and he had purposely given emphasis to the worst that could be said about the Vicar, in order to forestall objections.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

"A man who knows the roads," continued B. "Though, for that matter, it's a simple enough route—the Portsmouth road all the way to Kingston, and then across to Willesden.
— from The Secret of the League: The Story of a Social War by Ernest Bramah

This was the condition of the Théâtre-Français, this was the state of French literature, in the year of grace 1802, when Napoleon Bonaparte was First Consul, and Cambacérès and Lebrun were assistant consuls.
— from My Memoirs, Vol. II, 1822 to 1825 by Alexandre Dumas

With him went the young d'Iberville (then twenty-four years of age) and his brothers Maricourt and St. Hélène, seventy Canadians and thirty soldiers, "all," says Ferland, "accustomed to long marches, able to manage canoes, to withstand the most piercing colds and well versed in 'la petite guerre.'"
— from Montreal, 1535-1914. Vol. 1. Under the French Régime, 1535-1760 by William H. (William Henry) Atherton

The militia were mustered, and a few Continental troops that were here on their way to Peekskill prepared to receive them; but their number was so inconsiderable, and that of the enemy so large, with a formidable train of artillery, I had no hope of the place being saved.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

There was something coarse and rasping in the way the boy repeated the latter phrase of the words he had overheard at the green and yellow shed.
— from The Auto Boys' Quest by James A. (James Andrew) Braden

The Washing Test.
— from Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales by Elias Owen

"There were time and opportunity, at any rate, to comprehend the subtlety of Mr. Irving's expression in that long soliloquy—how well it was broken up, and how face accorded with action when Sinnatus lay dead, and the frightened Camma had fled to the sanctuary of the Temple.
— from Ellen Terry and Her Sisters by T. Edgar (Thomas Edgar) Pemberton

Lady Delawarr never felt quite certain who that was to be.
— from The Maidens' Lodge; or, None of Self and All of Thee (In the Reign of Queen Anne) by Emily Sarah Holt

He has not only to speak of themes above the level of ordinary life, but to speak of them in a deeper and tenderer way than they are ordinarily felt, so as to awaken the feeling of them in others.
— from Gorgias by Plato