Accordingly she behaved as little like a primrose as possible, sitting in stony silence while he skirmished in the passage with Mrs. Pearce, and the instant he came in again asked him where he had found the umbrella.
— from The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight by Elizabeth Von Arnim

The commission in its capacity as sole legislative body for the territory inhabited by Moros or other non-Christian tribes might have passed an act prohibiting and penalizing slavery, involuntary servitude and peonage in that territory; but such an act unless supplemented by a similar one applicable to the neighbouring Filipino territory where most of the slaves are actually held would obviously have been ineffective, while the desirability of having uniform legislation throughout the Philippines was evident.
— from The Philippines: Past and Present (Volume 2 of 2) by Dean C. (Dean Conant) Worcester

The work of drafting a proper bill was duly provided for and I am sure that no member of the commission for a moment entertained the belief that there would be any difficulty in securing the concurrence of the assembly in the passage of a reasonable act prohibiting and penalizing slavery, involuntary servitude, peonage and the sale and purchase of human beings.
— from The Philippines: Past and Present (Volume 2 of 2) by Dean C. (Dean Conant) Worcester

VIII, p. 64, Phil. Repts.), decided on March 16, 1907, decided that ‘there is no law applicable here either of the United States or of the Archipelago punishing slavery as a crime;’ and “ Whereas , in order to remedy this condition in accordance with the above-mentioned provisions of the said Act of Congress, the Philippine Commission in its exclusive legislative jurisdiction over all that part of the Philippine Islands inhabited by Moros or other non-Christian tribes passed Act No. 2071, and as a branch of the Philippine Legislature has in four successive sessions passed an act prohibiting and penalizing slavery, involuntary servitude, peonage, or the sale of human beings, and “ Whereas during each of said sessions the Assembly has failed to concur in the passage of such Act; now, therefore, be it “ Resolved , That the Honourable the Governor-General be requested to send to the Honourable the Secretary of War a copy of the proposed law entitled ‘An Act prohibiting slavery, involuntary servitude, peonage, or the sale of human beings in the Philippine Islands’ as passed by the Commission in the last [ 707 ] session of the last Legislature, but which failed of passage in the Assembly, with the recommendation that a copy of the law be sent to Congress with the request that the necessary legislation be enacted to render fully effective the above-mentioned provisions of the Act of Congress of July 1, 1902.”
— from The Philippines: Past and Present (Volume 2 of 2) by Dean C. (Dean Conant) Worcester

It was enough for him that Master Cuthbert was come home again; and when he saw his hollow cheeks, and listened to his churchyard cough, all the same feelings which he had once had for him during a dangerous sickness of his childhood returned, and he was as gentle and kind in all he had to do for him as a nurse; but this was little,—for a mother was ever at his side: by her hands his pillow was smoothed, by her his back was propped, and his chair placed nearer to the fire; while his father sought to share in all these services, and read to him, and prayed with him, and communed with him through long and precious hours about their common faith, their common hope, and that future and abiding world, where they should dwell as pardoned and perfected spirits, in sinless [Pg 280] felicity, and in the pure service of praise and love for ever.
— from The Broken Font: A Story of the Civil War, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Moyle Sherer

You think the baroness, what she really is, an ambitious, proud, avaricious person, stupid in spite of her reading; the baroness thinks you, what you are not, an immensely conceited, supercilious fool.
— from Problematic Characters: A Novel by Friedrich Spielhagen

The nutritional requirements of the crew will be influenced by such factors as activity, physical and psychological stress, individual size of the members, and individual metabolic rates.
— from Significant Achievements in Space Bioscience 1958-1964 by United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Were there never any places and persons successors in Sodom’s guilt?
— from The Existence and Attributes of God, Volumes 1 and 2 by Stephen Charnock