Twice at least during the years of Choiseul's ministry there occurred opportunities which a resolute, ready, and not too scrupulous government might easily have converted into a cause of war; the more so as they involved that sea power which is to England above all other nations the object of just and jealous concern.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

The outbreak is only interesting in that it shows how the Fijians confuse Christianity with the Government, and cannot throw off the one without repudiating the other; and how cannibalism was a religious rite and not the mere gratification of a depraved taste.
— from The Fijians: A Study of the Decay of Custom by Basil Thomson

‘Near where they lived was a rapid river, and no bridge, and many were drowned in attempting to cross it, and many had a weary way to walk to find a bridge.
— from Roman Legends: A collection of the fables and folk-lore of Rome by Rachel Harriette Busk

The flames went up with a redoubled roar, and now I could hold my place no longer for the heat.
— from The Hole in the Wall by Arthur Morrison

You see, he was a real reformer, and not a charlatan, such as you were in life!
— from Lucky Pehr by August Strindberg

and to think he should have made such a mistake; but on the whole, Morris was consoled by the fact that it was a relation; relations are not always equals, they are not always friends; sometimes the people of the house would prefer to have them shut out.
— from Lady William by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

But the Executive Department of Massachusetts is undertaking to say that in any case where rents are unreasonably raised to the detriment of people who are just as essential to our victory as the soldier in the field, if any one is to be evicted from such premises it will be the persons who are raising rents and not the persons who are asked to pay them.
— from Have faith in Massachusetts; 2d ed. A Collection of Speeches and Messages by Calvin Coolidge

Each day the enemy's guns shattered the outer barricade, but this was as regularly repaired at night, in spite of the heavy artillery and matchlock fire which they kept up towards the spot.
— from With Clive in India; Or, The Beginnings of an Empire by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Their oath, given by Stow, seems from its language to belong to the sixteenth century, but it may be older: “Ye shal swear that ye shal wel and diligently observe that the Pavements in every ward be wel and rightfully repaired: and not haunted by the Noyance of the Neighbours: and that the ways, Streets, and Lanes be kept clene from Donge and other filth, for the Honesty of the City.
— from Mediæval London, Volume 1: Historical & Social by Walter Besant

The kitchen was nothing but a dark hole with a rusty range and nondescript pots and pans.
— from The Gorgeous Girl by Nalbro Bartley

In the Tribune there was a regular revolt, and nothing less than a new breach of the constitution, namely, the reduction of the number of members of that Chamber to eighty, was required to overcome its opposition.
— from Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature - 3. The Reaction in France by Georg Brandes