A comparison of the different methods which associations pursue in those countries in which they are managed with discretion, as well as in those where liberty degenerates into license, may perhaps be thought useful both to governments and to parties.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Bingley expressed great pleasure in the certainty of seeing Elizabeth again, having still a great deal to say to her, and many inquiries to make after all their Hertfordshire friends.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

o [ The inhabitants of Massachusetts had deviated from the forms which are preserved in the criminal and civil procedure of England; in 1650 the decrees of justice were not yet headed by the royal style.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Nabiani, people inhabiting the Caucasus, ii. 239 .
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

“She should always send for Perry, if the child appeared in the slightest degree disordered, were it only for a moment.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

Then taking the half of this (for the earth is placed in the centre) it will follow, that nearly one-sixth part of the immense space, which the mind conceives as constituting the orbit of the sun round the earth, will compose his altitude.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

I thought to get a private room to wash and dress in, but there is no such thing as privacy in this country.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

The eloquent and courageous proscript, Emile Deschanel, has created at Brussels, with a rare talent of speech, a new form of public instruction, the Conferences.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

I might also here show you, that even the gifts and graces of the true church were set forth by the spices, nuts, grapes, and pomegranates, that the land of Canaan brought forth; yea, that hell itself was set forth by the valley of the sons of Hinnom and Tophet, places in this country.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

One day after his return, as he was praying in the church of St. Mary, Porzioncula, a vision of our Saviour appeared, and promised that, to all who should thereafter confess their sins in that church, plenary remission should be granted.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 05, April 1867 to September 1867 by Various

Only they, besides the undertaker and the one Protestant pastor in the city, were present during the reading of the service; and when that was [210] over, Willard Livermore, actuated by some unaccountable impulse, insisted upon closing the casket.
— from The Masked Bridal by Sheldon, Georgie, Mrs.

The lower story is Doric, the second is Ionic, and the third which has perished was probably in the Corinthian style.
— from The Grandeur That Was Rome by J. C. (John Clarke) Stobart

There is one about the earl who has imprisoned the young princess in a dungeon, and her lover, a knight of the cross, comes home from a crusade and is put in the cell next to her.
— from In Our Town by William Allen White

Capetown with the House of Parliament is the center of legislation, while Pretoria, the ancient Kruger stronghold, with its magnificent new Union buildings atop a commanding eminence, is the fountain-head of administration.
— from An African Adventure by Isaac Frederick Marcosson

Likewise arithmetic [Pg 222] and the rest of the quadrivium have place in the cleric’s education.
— from The Mediaeval Mind (Volume 1 of 2) A History of the Development of Thought and Emotion in the Middle Ages by Henry Osborn Taylor

But still it is the only power which can be moved to good purposes in this case; and, however high some may appear to be above it, there are in reality none who are not more or less subject to its influence.”
— from Tradition, Principally with Reference to Mythology and the Law of Nations by Arundell of Wardour, John Francis Arundell, Baron

Such was the horrible position of the peasantry in this civil conflict.
— from The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-84) by John Lothrop Motley

The navy which he proposed to build was out of all proportion to the number of merchant ships which Germany possessed, and from the first many people in this country rightly guessed that it was meant to be the means of overcoming Great Britain.
— from The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 1 (of 10) From the Beginning of the War to the Landing of the British Army in France by Edward Parrott