I understand that the city police is too weak in numbers to accomplish this perfectly, and I therefore recommend that the City Council at once take steps to increase this force to a number which, in their judgment, day and night can enforce your ordinances as to peace, quiet, and order; so that any change in our military dispositions will not have a tendency to leave your people unguarded.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Such feelings, if experienced in a moderate degree, are not clearly expressed by any movement of the body or features, excepting perhaps by a certain gravity of behaviour, or by some ill-temper.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

Here he discovered a notion common enough in persons not much accustomed to entertain company, that there must be a degree of elaborate attention, otherwise company will think themselves neglected; and such attention is no doubt very fatiguing.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

If he had, he might have seen, that the right to set up and establish hereditary government, never did, and never can, exist in any generation at any time whatever; that it is of the nature of treason; because it is an attempt to take away the rights of all the minors living at that time, and of all succeeding generations.
— from The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Volume III. 1791-1804 by Thomas Paine

The honorable position given me at that little fete permitted me to see it in all its details, and nothing could equal the curiosity with which I sought to hear and see all that was said and done by the joyous guests.
— from Fifty Years in the Church of Rome by Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy

—It does not matter what Mr. Gladstone or anybody else can do, as nobody can eat a rabbit (w)hole .
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, December 17, 1892 by Various

Yet such were the men who were clapped into gaols and dungeons as notorious criminals, exposed to barbarous sufferings, and for several days not even permitted any intercourse with one another.
— from The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-Christianism in Europe by Francis A. (Francis Aloysius) Cunningham

What visions of glory would have broken upon his mind could he have known that he had indeed discovered a new continent equal to the old world in magnitude, and separated by two vast oceans from all the earth hitherto known by civilized man!
— from McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey

By chance the Sultan happened to drive through Stamboul that day, in disguise, and noticing considerable excitement and cries of "Padishahim chok yasha" (long live my Sultan) amongst the people, made inquiries as to the cause of this unusual
— from Told in the Coffee House: Turkish Tales by Cyrus Adler

Here we have identity and distinction, and nothing can explain it, as far as the mystery of being can be explained, except the law of opposition of origin.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 08, October, 1868, to March, 1869. by Various