Not by 'arguments' of no greater 'cogency' than that of any based upon results thus obtainable, need either of the two experimentalists expect to persuade praying people that prayer is, 'in the natural course of events,' doomed to become 'obsolete, just as the Waters of Jealousy and the Urim and Thummin of the Mosaic Law did in the times of the later Jewish Kings.'
— from Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics With Some of Their Applications by William Thomas Thornton

‘Well, that a’n’t a bad un,’ replied the other, who was a horse-dealer from Islington.
— from Sketches by Boz, Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People by Charles Dickens

But while their hand is thus kept in all the year round, there are three days sacredly set apart annually, in which every accommodation is given to those who are bent upon ruining themselves or their neighbours; whilst every zest that society can afford, is held out to render the temptation more alluring.
— from Life in Mexico by Madame (Frances Erskine Inglis) Calderón de la Barca

Everything seemed to prove that Mrs. Travis, at least, was a woman educated beyond the ordinary, yet nothing in their simple, pleasant conversation could let anyone think that they had not both been born and brought up right there on Kettle.
— from Highacres by Jane Abbott

[Pg 42] the awful glory through which, in the pages of Byron, the typical figure of agonised but unconquerable revolt towers over a realm of ruin:— "On his brow
— from Shadows of the Stage by William Winter

He was infinitely kind and tender; but it was the tenderness of a father, or a benevolent uncle, rather than of a husband.
— from Beyond These Voices by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Lieutenant Coghill swam safely across; but upon reaching the other side, perceived that his comrade was helpless in the river, his horse having thrown him, and he clinging to a rock.
— from Our Soldiers: Gallant Deeds of the British Army during Victoria's Reign by William Henry Giles Kingston

To clinch the matter still further Mr. Washington wrote to the Secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association in Brockton, who replied that Terry's story had, if anything, been understated rather than overstated.
— from Booker T. Washington, Builder of a Civilization by Lyman Beecher Stowe