In 1842 Rev. Dr. Schwartz passed through Pesth on his way to Constantinople, and Philipp heard his addresses to Jews, and was impressed, becoming conscious of sin and the need of pardon.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

A murder may with impunity be committed under his window; he has only to put his hands to his ears and argue a little with himself, to prevent nature, which is shocked within him, from identifying itself with the unfortunate sufferer.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Thus, when a flood of fire by wind is borne, Crackling it rolls, and mows the standing corn; Or deluges, descending on the plains, Sweep o’er the yellow year, destroy the pains Of lab’ring oxen and the peasant’s gains; Unroot the forest oaks, and bear away Flocks, folds, and trees, and undistinguish’d prey:
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

The fight as to whether these children were legitimate or illegitimate was, of course, notorious, and a matter of history; but from the fact that they bore a bordure compony, an idea grew up both in this country and in Scotland also from the similarity of the cases of the doubtful legitimacy of the Avondale and Ochiltree Stewarts, who both used the bordure compony, that the bordure compony was a sign of illegitimacy, whereas in both countries at an earlier period it undoubtedly was accepted as a mark of legitimate cadency.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

— Fol., 1616, vol. 2, 1640 (1631-41); fol., 1692, 1716-19, 1729; edited by P. Whalley, 7 vols., 1756; by Gifford (with Memoir), 9 vols., 1816, 1846; re-edited by F. Cunningham, 3 vols., 1871; in 9 vols., 1875; by Barry Cornwall (with Memoir), 1838; by B. Nicholson (Mermaid Series), with Introduction by C. H. Herford, 1893, etc.; Nine Plays, 1904; ed. H. C. Hart (Standard Library), 1906, etc; Plays and Poems, with Introduction by H. Morley (Universal Library), 1885; Plays (7) and Poems (Newnes), 1905; Poems, with Memoir by H. Bennett (Carlton Classics), 1907; Masques and Entertainments, ed. by H. Morley, 1890.
— from Every Man in His Humor by Ben Jonson

"Professor, will it be convenient to you to make a submarine excursion to-day?" "With my companions?" I asked.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

It was, I believe, chiefly owing to him that the old man was dropped.
— from A Room with a View by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

But the will itself, by confining and intensifying the attention, may arbitrarily give vividness or distinctness to any object whatsoever."
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

This firing was brisk, and showed that Hunter was driving before him the enemy, till about noon, when it became certain the enemy had come to a stand, and that our forces on the other side of Bull Run were all engaged, artillery and infantry.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

SEE White, Ingfried B. Cowan.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1965 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

This work would bear much stronger witness to the excellence of Simone, if, besides the fact that time has eaten it away, it had not been spoilt by those Fathers in the year 1560, when they, being unable to use the Chapter-house, because it was in bad condition from damp, made a vaulted roof to replace a worm-eaten ceiling, and threw down the little that was left of the pictures of this man.
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi by Giorgio Vasari

We are here concerned with the fuller exploration of the West Indies by Columbus.
— from A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole by M. B. (Margaret Bertha) Synge

Bates, however, found, that though the flesh is very tender, palatable, and wholesome, it becomes cloying after a person has lived on it for some time; and he at length could not bear the smell, even though suffering from hunger.
— from The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by William Henry Giles Kingston

Yes, my dear fellow, for I should like it to have to pay still more, to teach it how to leave this Factory, which is, beyond contradiction, the finest of its settlements, denuded of soldiers and munitions of war, so that it is not possible for us to show our teeth."
— from Three Frenchmen in Bengal The Commercial Ruin of the French Settlements in 1757 by Samuel Charles Hill

If you do not think this is true, I beg of you to watch a snake, where its body can catch the light of the sun.
— from Pre-Raphaelite and other Poets by Lafcadio Hearn

For two months the body lay in state at Somerset House in a room hung with black, and lit with innumerable black candles.
— from Little Folks (September 1884) A Magazine for the Young by Various

During the war it became customary to cut the drawing-chains, or, as some call them, the trace-chains.
— from The Mule A Treatise on the Breeding, Training, and Uses to Which He May Be Put by Harvey Riley

The objection arising from the Niger's being conceived to penetrate the Kong Mountains, seems to be nearly of equal weight in both cases, on the supposition that this vast chain of mountains is of the extent generally imagined; which there appears to be no reason to doubt.
— from The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805 Together with Other Documents, Official and Private, Relating to the Same Mission, to Which Is Prefixed an Account of the Life of Mr. Park by Mungo Park