“That the Huron is a liar, is very evident,” returned Heyward, coolly; “you have yourself heard him assert you to be La Longue Carabine.”
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

But that the public meals were better ordered at Crete than at Lacedaemon is very evident.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

Among other works which may be consulted are Baur Der Apostel Paulus p. 417 sq.; Boehmer Isagoge in Epistolam ad Colossenses , Berlin 1829, p. 56 sq., p. 277 sq.; Burton Inquiry into the Heresies of the Apostolic Age , Lectures IV , V ; Ewald Die Sendschreiben des Apostels Paulus p. 462
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

You think with horror of the books, writing-case, photographs, lace-trimmed hat, work-basket, boots, etc., all left in various exposed positions about the room, and—most frightful thought of all—of the coats and dresses hanging on the row of pegs in that corner where, to judge by the sound, the most substantial of all the cataracts seems to be descending; and you feel that you must learn at once the extent of your misfortune, and rescue what you can.
— from Home Life on an Ostrich Farm by Martin, Annie, Mrs.

I see it in this man who worships by act of Parliament, and is rewarded with a silk apron and five thousand a year; in that man who, driven fatally by the remorseless logic of his creed, gives up everything, friends, fame, dearest ties, closest vanities, the respect of an army of churchmen, the recognized position of a leader, and passes over, truth-impelled, to the enemy in whose ranks he is ready to serve henceforth as a nameless private soldier; I see the truth in that man as I do in his brother, whose logic drives him to quite a different conclusion, and who, after having passed a life in vain endeavors to reconcile an irreconcilable book, flings it at last down in despair, and declares, with tearful eyes and hands up to heaven, his revolt and recantation."
— from Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by Justin McCarthy

Hanway and Lewis in vain endeavored to restrain them.
— 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

It begins with the church, and ends with the church—the church, at first in humility, trial, and distress; at last, in victory, exaltation, and glory.
— from The United States in the Light of Prophecy Or, an Exposition of Rev. 13:11-17 by Uriah Smith

"Of course it is very wrong," she would say in her own enchanting way, "but a lover is very exciting, and a husband always seems dull.
— from Evelyn Innes by George Moore

[Pg 297] used, as the contrast of the plain and leno is very effective, and is more serviceable than a loose figure.
— from Cotton Weaving and Designing 6th Edition by John T. Taylor

The dreaded town is at length in view, engendering fear and terror, but not despair.
— from An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America by J. P. (John Patterson) MacLean