I had at first emphatically refused to have anything to do with this opera, although its principal part suited my niece's voice admirably, even in her father's judgment.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

Pumping was also a punishment for bailiffs who attempted to act in privileged places, such as the Mint, Temple, &c.
— from 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

I return the injury sevenfold, as Ivan Petrovitch Ptitsin says.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The function of the Pure Reason is, first:—to intuit, by an immediate perception, the a priori elemental principles which condition all being; second,—to intuit, by a like immediate perception, those principles, combined in a priori systematic processes, which are the conditional ideal forms for all being; and third,—again to intuit, by another immediate perception, precisely similar in kind to the others, the fact, at least, of the perfectly harmonious combination of all a priori elemental principles, in all possible systematic processes, into a perfect unity,—an absolute, infinite Person,—God.
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation Including Some Strictures Upon the Theories of Rev. Henry L. Mansel and Mr. Herbert Spencer by Jesse Henry Jones

Severinus Boethius never writ so elegantly as in prison, Paul so devoutly, for most of his epistles were dictated in his bands: Joseph, saith [3858] Austin, got more credit in prison, than when he distributed corn, and was lord of Pharaoh's house.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The Socialists were organized in every civilized nation; it was an international political party, said Ostrinski, the greatest the world had ever known.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

Three months passed away, and at the end of that period March Marston found himself back again in Pine Point settlement, sitting on a low stool at that fireside where the yelling and kicking days of his infancy had been spent, and looking up in the face of that buxom, blue-eyed mother, with whom he had been wont to hold philosophical converse in regard to fighting and other knotty—not to say naughty—questions, in those bright but stormy days of childhood when he stood exactly “two-foot-ten,” and when he looked and felt as if he stood upwards of ten feet two!
— from The Wild Man of the West: A Tale of the Rocky Mountains by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

In infancy, and in certain conditions of exhaustion, as well as in peculiar pathological states, the inhibitory power may fail to arrest the explosions of the impulsive discharge.
— from Psychology: Briefer Course by William James

and Paul receive the laying on of hands at Antioch, journey through Cyprus, Elymas the sorcerer blinded, visit to Antioch in Pisidia, Paul's speech in the synagogue, he turns to the Gentiles (xiii.).
— from The Books of the New Testament by Leighton Pullan

Near us, to the south, were the graceful colonnades of Antinoë, its proud, populous streets, and triumphal monuments.
— from The Epicurean: A Tale by Thomas Moore

Both were arrayed in Potash & Perlmutter's style forty-twenty-two, but while Lina wore a green hat approximating the hue of early Page 80
— from Potash & Perlmutter: Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures by Montague Glass

Under these mighty loads the snow-tracks got an almost icy polish, prime sledding for country sleighing parties.
— from Home Life in Colonial Days by Alice Morse Earle

And now the pamphlet draws to an end, with a conclusion we will give in the writer's own words: 'These Things considered (and he that marries without previous Consideration acts very indiscreetly), I do not see how I can marry a Woman with the Fortune you propose, or that I should better myself at all by it, and in Prudence, People should do so or let it alone; (not that I propose or think to have more)
— from Old Picture Books, With Other Essays on Bookish Subjects by Alfred W. (Alfred William) Pollard

He was young, intelligent, a stranger to the company at its organization, but his soldierly bearing, intelligent comprehension of duty, and its prompt performance, soon attracted attention to him as comprising the material suited for a leader, and he was promoted to a lieutenancy.
— from The 125th Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry: Attention Batallion! by Robert M. Rogers

(12) In public conveyances, such as railway trains and street cars, and in public places, such as theaters, honors and personal salutes may be omitted when palpably inappropriate or apt to disturb or annoy civilians present.
— from Infantry Drill Regulations, United States Army, 1911 Corrected to April 15, 1917 (Changes Nos. 1 to 19) by United States. War Department