If it be held by this court that congress has no constitutional power, under any circumstances, or in any emergency, to make treasury notes a legal tender for the payment of all debts (a power confessedly professed by every independent sovereignty other than the United States), the government is without those means of self-preservation which, all must admit, may, in certain contingencies, become indispensable, even if they were not when the act of congress now called in question was enacted.
— from Monopolies and the People by D. C. Cloud

In subsequent anti-slavery meetings in Boston, New York, and elsewhere, it became manifest that there was a radical difference of opinion on the subject of political action; the non-resistant and no-government influence, operating decidedly against the employment of the elective franchise in the anti-slavery cause; and the agitation of this question, as well as that of the rights of women, in their meetings, gave to them a discordant and party character, painfully contrasting with the previous peaceful and harmonious action of the societies.
— from A Visit to the United States in 1841 by Joseph Sturge

relbun , a species of madder; Contra yerba , a kind of agrimony, furnishes yellow, as does another plant called poquel ; a [Pg 109] violet is procured from the culli and the rosoli ; and the panqui yields a permanent black.
— from Historical and Descriptive Narrative of Twenty Years' Residence in South America (Vol 1 of 3) Containing travels in Arauco, Chile, Peru, and Colombia; with an account of the revolution, its rise, progress, and results by Stevenson, William Bennet, active 1803-1825

During the following years Swift was often at the castle at Dublin, and passed considerable periods in London, leaving a curate in charge of the minute congregation at Laracor.
— from Swift by Leslie Stephen

Shall we both begin afresh, on a new basis, simply and without any false glamour, and live and die as plain country persons?
— from Atlantis by Gerhart Hauptmann

“Yes, my dear,” replied Mrs. Seymour, “there is a foolish superstition attached to this, and I believe to many other wells in the neighbourhood of remote villages, that by dropping pebbles into it, and observing whether they produce a loud, or only a slight sound, and noticing the number of times they rebound from the sides before they reach the bottom, and other absurd distinctions, a person can predict whether good or evil awaits them.”
— from Philosophy in Sport Made Science in Earnest Being an Attempt to Illustrate the First Principles of Natural Philosophy by the Aid of Popular Toys and Sports by John Ayrton Paris

45 Some South American Indians “regard as divinities all phenomenal children, principally such as are born with a larger number of fingers or toes than is natural.”
— from The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck

“He had prowled up and down a peaceful country, [Pg 76] drinking and carousing, and blustering about horse thieves, until all the slaves had notice of his coming.
— from A History of the Trial of Castner Hanway and Others, for Treason, at Philadelphia in November, 1851 With an Introduction upon the History of the Slave Question by Member of the Philadelphia bar

To all that appertained to the refinement of himself, he applied the fine feelers of a delicate and passionate construction, physical and mental, and, as the reader will already have included, wasted on culture comparatively unprofitable, faculties that would have been better employed but for the meddling of Miss Fanny Bellairs.
— from Stories by American Authors (Volume 4) by H. C. (Henry Cuyler) Bunner

In dreaming about imaginary people, and in holding conversations remarkable for their utter inanity with them, about tennis parties and dances and pink chiffon parasols."
— from The Rebellion of Margaret by Geraldine Mockler