Governed, as we are, entirely by public opinion, the utmost care should be taken to preserve the purity of the public mind.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

As a rule, when the word was so passed up, Cheirisophus slackened; but sometimes instead of slackening, Cheirisophus quickened, sending down a counter-order to the rear to follow on quickly.
— from Anabasis by Xenophon

While it is not necessary to put expressive work into this preparatory work, the utmost care should be taken to ensure its accuracy as far as it goes.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

From the "Conqueror" there landed the battalion of 450 marines under Colonel Suther, besides her own complement of 100, and some bluejackets, small detachments of marines being added from the other ships of our squadron.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

And he declared that he who was without office and rights under Cronos, should be raised to both office and rights as is just.
— from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod

They are now to be replaced in their turn, by smaller types, for reasons which do not rest upon comparative studies but upon direct experimental evidence.
— from Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Hugo de Vries

The supremacy of the old river steamboat is gone forever, unless conditions should be utterly changed.
— from The Century Handbook of Writing by Easley S. (Easley Stephen) Jones

This affair is on all hands allowed to have been bloody in the extreme; but a tale has been brought to light, and attested by persons of undoubted credit, so bloody, so diabolical, as to outstrip everything which such an expression is calculated to describe.
— from English Caricature and Satire on Napoleon I. Volume 1 (of 2) by John Ashton

"See you've got the boys with their backs up, Chester," said Bijah.
— from Coniston — Volume 02 by Winston Churchill

This is the hope and the ultimate Christianity sets before us.
— from Christ, Christianity and the Bible by Isaac Massey Haldeman

Nor did his thought deceive him, seeing that in the year 1355, the Commune of Florence having bought some citizens' houses near their Palace (in order to have more space and to make a larger square, and also in order to make a place where the citizens could take shelter in rainy or wintry days, and carry on under cover such business as was transacted on the Ringhiera when bad weather did not hinder), they caused many designs to be made for the building of a magnificent and very large Loggia for this purpose near the Palace, and at the same time for the Mint where the money is struck.
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi by Giorgio Vasari

Wherever he sat, his large, white, solemn visage had a fascination for Madame Modjeska, and from the time she caught sight of it until Camille settled back lifeless in the final scene, she played "at him."
— from Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 1 by Slason Thompson

There are societies open to our observation at this very moment whose laws and usages can scarcely be explained unless they are supposed never to have emerged from this primitive condition; but in communities more fortunately circumstanced the fabric of jurisprudence fell gradually to pieces, and if we carefully observe the disintegration we shall perceive that it took place principally in those portions of each system which were most deeply affected by the primitive conception of the family.
— from Ancient Law: Its Connection to the History of Early Society by Maine, Henry Sumner, Sir