Then he set to work to write six quartets (168-173 K.), whether by order or not is uncertain; nothing more important, however, came to hand.
— from Life of Mozart, Vol. 1 (of 3) by Otto Jahn

Orpheus will teach us no more in his "Theogony," than Damasius has preserved to us.
— from A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 06 by Voltaire

Hard times and the little man goes under, no matter if he's a darn sight better fellow than the bloated beast on top—" "You mean if we were living in the Socialistic Utopia no man could go under?"
— from The Sisters-In-Law: A Novel of Our Time by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

Monarchy itself has undergone numerous modifications; it has been allied sometimes with democracy, sometimes with aristocracy; sometimes its power has been very limited, and sometimes it has been unbounded; and yet we always find this restraint which Montesquieu speaks of, and which he calls honor; that is, a powerful influence stimulating to good deeds and deterring from bad, and all this from respect for the judgments which other men will pass.
— from Protestantism and Catholicity compared in their effects on the civilization of Europe by Jaime Luciano Balmes

Lebanon UNIKOM United Nations Iraq-Kuwait Observation Mission UNITAR United Nations Institute for Training and Research UNMIH United Nations Mission in Haiti UNMIBH United Nations Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina UNMOGIP United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan UNMOP United Nations Mission of Observers in Prevlaka UNMOT United Nations Mission of Observers in Tajikistan UNOMIG United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia UNOMIL United Nations Observer Mission in
— from The 1998 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

But before I saw him, before I even heard his unnecessarily noiseless movements, I heard something else that sent a chill all through me.
— from Mr. Justice Raffles by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung

He was displeased with himself, distressed by this outbreak of the undisciplined and unregenerate "natural man" in him.
— from The Far Horizon by Lucas Malet

He was unfortunately not mistaken in his notoriety, and the task before me assumed a new magnitude.
— from The Sabbath-School Index Pointing out the history and progress of Sunday-schools, with approved modes of instruction. by R. G. (Richard Gay) Pardee

She had in no way conspired to the hurt of the Queen's person; her friends had several times offered her deliverance, to which for not having consented she had been blamed, and they threatened to leave her and mix themselves up no more in her affairs.
— from The Last Days of Mary Stuart, and the journal of Bourgoyne her physician by Samuel Cowan