Her views of improving her little friend's mind, by a great deal of useful reading and conversation, had never yet led to more than a few first chapters, and the intention of going on to-morrow.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

And what is more, Romulus's fury resulted in actual deeds of unfortunate result; whereas the anger of Theseus spent itself in words and an old man's curses, and the youth seems to have owed the rest of his suffering to chance; so here, at any rate, one would give one's vote for Theseus.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

As has been mentioned in considering the pathogenesis of human scurvy, Eijkman demonstrated that hens developed polyneuritis, a disease resembling beriberi, when fed on polished rice, and that the simple change to a diet of unpolished rice, or the addition of rice polishings to the dietary, sufficed to protect or to cure.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

I shall not be in any doubtful, or distant, or unapproachable region.”
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

452 E ; danger of unrestrained ridicule, 10.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

Reflection must be reserved for solitary hours; whenever she was alone, she gave way to it as the greatest relief; and not a day went by without a solitary walk, in which she might indulge in all the delight of unpleasant recollections.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

In fact, since the days of universal repose set in, and the townships required no protection, an arrangement was made with the Bhumias of Mewar, in which the crown, foregoing its claim of quit-rent, has obtained their services in the garrisons and frontier stations of police at a very slight pecuniary sacrifice.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

I am deeply conscious of the part you play in consolidating the position of the Cause in the eyes of both the exalted and lowly, and in hastening the advent of that promised day of universal recognition and triumph for our beloved Cause.
— from Bahá'í Administration by Effendi Shoghi

In similar defiance of unquestionable right, the Dutch East India fleet, in 1665, which had put into Bergen in Norway, was attacked by the English in this neutral port.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 12 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

In nearly all the towns where the grave-yards are crowded by the burials of an increasing population, evidence was tendered of outrages perpetrated upon the feelings of the population by the gravediggers in the disposal of undecomposed remains to make space for new interments.
— from A supplementary report on the results of a special inquiry into the practice of interment in towns. by Edwin Chadwick

Now commenced a system of denial of unalienable rights, for the methods of the usurper are the same everywhere.
— from The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 2 by Jefferson Davis

He cannot understand why he suffers, whether there be any truth or none in the traditional doctrine of unfailing retribution upon earth; for he has certainly done everything to merit happiness and nought to deserve punishment.
— from The Sceptics of the Old Testament: Job - Koheleth - Agur by Emile Joseph Dillon

Further, it is better to feel the aromatic attributes of love than the dangerous or unlovely reality.
— from Literary Love-Letters and Other Stories by Robert Herrick

She went out but seldom, and then accompanied by the one or the other of her female servants, in long drives on unfrequented roads.
— from On the Frontier by Bret Harte

Mingling with this overpowering demonstration of united rejoicing from such huge masses, came the blare of the trumpets and horns of the assembled legions.
— from A Thorny Path — Volume 07 by Georg Ebers

But everywhere, and perhaps more than anywhere in the Netherlands, which became presently a great centre of glass painting, the tendency, towards the latter part of the century, was in the direction of undue reliance upon paint; of which came inevitably one of two things—either the shaded parts were heavy, dirty, and opaque, or they were weak and washy in effect.
— from Windows: A Book About Stained & Painted Glass by Lewis F. (Lewis Foreman) Day

A half dozen of us reached there in time to throw ourselves against the gate that was just closing, and the next instant I fell sprawling inside the barrack yard.
— from Captain Macklin: His Memoirs by Richard Harding Davis