Though only forty-one years old when he went to the scaffold, Gonzalo had for sixteen years taken a leading part in nearly every one of the battles and expeditions of Peru, and is justly regarded as the best fighting man among the "conquistadores."
— from The South American Republics, Part 2 of 2 by Thomas Cleland Dawson

Vico realised that the divine origin was in this case a mere refuge of indolence; that language is neither logic nor convention, and, like poetry, is neither esoteric wisdom nor due to a decision or agreement.
— from The Philosophy of Giambattista Vico by Benedetto Croce

The long-continued and intemperate interference of the Northern people with the question of slavery in the Southern States has at length produced its natural effects.
— from State of the Union Addresses by James Buchanan

If a Latin poem is neat, elegant, and musical, it is enough, but English readers are not so easily satisfied.
— from The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam

Routledge, C. F. 1898 Upon the same principle a history of a London parish is not entered under “London,” but under its particular name with a cross-reference from London to the places, as London.
— from Manual of Library Cataloguing by John Henry Quinn

um oviforme " must needs, in all cases, proceed from a living parent is nowhere expressly maintained by Harvey, though such an opinion may be thought to be implied in one or two passages; while, on the other hand, he does, more than once, use language which is consistent only with a full belief in spontaneous or equivocal generation.[3]
— from Discourses: Biological & Geological Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley

The Orthodox and Liberal Parties in New England.
— from Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by James Freeman Clarke

However that may be, the vicinity of Hoho-hebee Falls, always a lonely place, is now even a deeper solitude.
— from The Moonshiners At Hoho-Hebee Falls 1895 by Mary Noailles Murfree