Without sovereigns, true sovereigns, temporal and spiritual, I see nothing possible but an anarchy; the hatefulest of things.
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

Here it is clear from both speakers, that although Sarpedon is said to be fated to die, Jupiter might still, if he pleased, save him, and place him entirely out of the reach of any such event, and further, in the alternative, that Jupiter himself would destroy him by the hands of another.
— from The Iliad by Homer

Without making a direct reply, he said: “There are some impenetrable secrets connected with that affair; some obscure points that escape my comprehension.
— from The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar by Maurice Leblanc

“No,” said the Astrodi, “she is still a maid.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

She talked and stormed ideas, she corrected and nagged at the children, she turned her back in silent contempt on her breeding mother, who treated her with supercilious indifference, as if she were a pretentious child not to be taken seriously.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

] "To save time and space, I shall represent, in a short table, the particular references to the great events of the first crusade.
— 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

"To save time and space, I shall represent, in a short table, the particular references to the great events of the first crusade.
— 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

After describing extraction by means of a knife and scoop he says: ‘If, however, any part of the tumour be left behind, we take another polypus eradicator (ἕτερον πολυποξύστην), and with the end of it (ἐπάκμου αὐτοῦ ξυστηρίου) bring away what remains, by stretching, twisting, and scraping it strongly.’
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

The cement-trunk increases in diameter in proceeding from the centre to the circumference, and the glands likewise increase in size, at the same time altering somewhat in shape.
— from A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 2 of 2) The Balanidæ, (or Sessile Cirripedes); the Verrucidæ, etc., etc. by Charles Darwin

"It is but a short time agone since I served a cure hereabouts."
— from Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by John Roby

I, too, helped, holding hot water and linen and jar of the stuff that made you feel like nothing, although the sight made me feel more sick than anything since I saw one I loved killed, oh, long, long ago.”
— from When the World Shook Being an Account of the Great Adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

Orders had been sent to a squadron in Southern waters to relieve Pickens.
— from Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Springs of Action as Revealed and Deepened by the Ordeal of War by Nathaniel W. (Nathaniel Wright) Stephenson

She threatened a separation if she was not allowed to have her own way.
— from The Jervaise Comedy by J. D. (John Davys) Beresford

She turned and said in surprise: “Oh, are you not gone?
— from Pan by Knut Hamsun

If you refuse, I shall kill you; no, I shall not kill you, for death is sweet to a slave; I shall inflict on you the tortures I reserve for those who provoke my anger; you shall lose your ears, your nose, and--" Diggle again interposed.
— from In Clive's Command: A Story of the Fight for India by Herbert Strang

During that period an immense number of fanatics appeared, sometimes together and sometimes in succession, intoxicated with extravagant doctrines and mischievous passions, from the fierce ravings of Fox to the more methodical madness of Barclay; from the formidable fanaticism of Cromwell to the silly profanity of 'Praise God Barebones.'
— from Protestantism and Catholicity compared in their effects on the civilization of Europe by Jaime Luciano Balmes