A truth's a truth-the rogues are marvellous poor.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

In short, the regular and methodical proceedings of an aristocracy are more intolerable than the very excesses of a despotism , and, in general, much further from any remedy.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

Some little rain & Snow last night the mountains to our S E. covered with Snow this morning air verry Cold & raining a little, we Saw 8 buffalow opposit, they made 2 attempts to Cross, the water being So Swift they Could not, about the time we were Setting out three white bear approached our Camp we killed the three & eate part of one & Set out & proceeded on N. 20° W 11 miles.—k the river at maney places in this distance to a ridge on the N. Side t m the top of which I could plainly See a mountain to the South & W. covered with Snow at a long distance, The mountains opposit to us to the S. E. is also Covered with Snow this morning.—a high ridge from those mountains approach the river on the S E Side forming Some Clifts of hard dark Stone.—From the ridge at which place I Struck the river last, I could ____
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

The third year of the war was more favorable to the Romans, and more pernicious to the Goths.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

As a member of the Royal House, however, he continued to receive a monthly pension of a few hundred francs from the Persian treasury; and on this he came to live in Paris.
— from The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

This remark applies more particularly to the fillet and torse (the latter of which undoubtedly at a later date superseded the former), for both at the beginning and at the end of the series referred to we find the fillet and the wreath or torse, and at both periods we find crests without either coronet, torse, chapeau, or fillet.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

But the bodings of the crew were destined to receive a most plausible confirmation in the fate of one of their number that morning.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

She laid the rose across my palm, but I scarcely closed my fingers upon it, so deeply was I absorbed in thinking what might be the meaning of her words, and what I ought to do or say upon the occasion; whether to give way to my feelings or restrain them still.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

The residence at Moss Park was built by him in comparatively recent times.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

This continual increase, both of the rude and manufactured produce of those landed nations, would, in due time, create a greater capital than could, with the ordinary rate of profit, be employed either in agriculture or in manufactures.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

This, by the use of pontoon bridges at Chattanooga and Brown's Ferry, would secure to us by the north bank of the river, across Moccasin Point, a shorter line by which to re-enforce our troops in Lookout Valley, than the narrow and tortuous road around the foot of Lookout Mountain afforded the enemy for re-enforcing his.
— from The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 by J. F. (Joseph Florimond) Loubat

The young cubs huddled together in the holes of the rocks and moaned piteously; those more advanced scampered and bowled down to the water with their mothers; whilst some of the old males stood up in defence of their families until the terror of the sailors' bludgeons became too strong to be resisted.
— from The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders by Scott, Ernest, Sir

Puno boasts a soldier's monument and a new theater, really a “movie palace.”
— from Inca Land: Explorations in the Highlands of Peru by Hiram Bingham

St. Theresa, the great Spanish mystic of the sixteenth century, the other "horrible example," held up even by some neurologists, of hysterical tendencies due to religion and mortification, proves, when studied in real life, to have been at least as great and strong a character as Catherine of Siena.
— from Religion And Health by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

Just as they were entering Hyde Park Gardens, on their return, a man passed them.
— from The Lost Heir by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

The little party in the old inn, "entirely surrounded by peasants," as Bob Stevenson said, devised all sorts of sports, for which the river afforded many (p. 049) opportunities.
— from The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson by Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez

The divisions did not march to the selected ground and pitch camp in a forenoon; but, partly from the rain and mud, partly want of practice, some of the divisions were several days unloading from the boats, hauling in the great trains then allowed to regiments (twenty-seven wagons and two ambulances to a regiment in some cases,) laying out the ground, and putting up tents.
— from From Fort Henry to Corinth by M. F. (Manning Ferguson) Force

There appears to be from year to year a growing taste among the most cultivated people for quaint and curious reminiscences of the Olden Time; and as these volumes will be of a handy size for the pocket or carpetbag, it is hoped that they will be welcomed by many who would not undertake to read a more pretentious or cumbersome work on similar topics.
— from The Olden Time Series, Vol. 1: Curiosities of the Old Lottery Gleanings Chiefly from Old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts by Henry M. (Henry Mason) Brooks