Each of these freedoms is proclaimed the absolute right of the French citizen, but always with the gloss that it is unlimited in so far only as it be not curtailed by the "equal rights of others," and by the "public safety," or by the "laws," which are intended to effect this harmony.
— from The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Karl Marx

I knew what was passing in her mind, as well as if those eloquent tears had not touched my heart.
— from Nature and Human Nature by Thomas Chandler Haliburton

In the Grey, Purple and Goliath Herons, as well as in the Egrettes, the head is narrower, more elongated, the bill less conical and less strong.
— from Extinct Birds An attempt to unite in one volume a short account of those Birds which have become extinct in historical times by Rothschild, Lionel Walter Rothschild, Baron

Thus, while deferring for a moment any insistence on the obvious points of parallelism with the Sacrament of the Eucharist, and the possibilities of Spiritual teaching inherent in the ceremonies, necessary links in our chain of argument, we are, I think, entitled to hold that, even when we pass beyond the outward mise-en-scčne of the story—the march of incident, the character of the King, his title, his disability, and relation to his land and folk—to the inner and deeper significance of the tale, the Nature Cults still remain reliable guides; it is their inner, their esoteric, ritual which will enable us to bridge the gulf between what appears at first sight the wholly irreconcilable elements of Folk-tale and high Spiritual mystery.
— from From Ritual to Romance by Jessie L. (Jessie Laidlay) Weston

They recalled to his vision the melancholy spectacle of Antwerp, but lately the "nurse of Europe, the fairest flower in his royal garland, the foremost and noblest city of the earth, now quite desolate and forlorn," and with additional instructions to Escovedo, that he should not fail, in his verbal communications, to represent the evil consequences of the course hitherto pursued by his Majesty's governors in the Netherlands, they dismissed him with good wishes, and with "crowns for convoy" in his purse to the amount of a revenue of two thousand yearly.
— from The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 26: 1577, part III by John Lothrop Motley

While the fighting was going on within, and in their efforts to hold their victim outside, he wrenched himself from their grasp—leaving his shirt in their hands—and ran through the woods to my house, around which colored men gathered and protected him.
— from A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences of Laura S. Haviland by Laura S. (Laura Smith) Haviland

rd with alarm in their eyes, their hands gripping the table.
— from Black is White by George Barr McCutcheon

The steward’s wife set her to work, and in the evening told her that she must stay all night with them, as they had more work for her to do next day.
— from Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales by Elias Owen

The tale he had volunteered to Prout and his signature on the back of the notes were almost in themselves enough to hang a man.
— from The Corner House by Fred M. (Fred Merrick) White