This series may be voluntarily increased when related to the holy patron saints of the Catholic Church, who are chosen as protectors against some especial condition or some specific difficulty because they at one time had some connection with that particular matter.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

Young maidens and men, before they are able to judge, are persuaded, and sometimes even compelled, to take the vow.
— from The Augsburg Confession The confession of faith, which was submitted to His Imperial Majesty Charles V at the diet of Augsburg in the year 1530 by Philipp Melanchthon

The weather was bitter cold, but he sat down at the piano, and between reciting and playing and singing, eventually composed the Marseillaise , and, thoroughly exhausted, fell asleep with his head on his desk.
— from Immortal Songs of Camp and Field The Story of their Inspiration together with Striking Anecdotes connected with their History by Louis Albert Banks

They drove before them the barbarous hordes, their predecessors, intermarried and incorporated themselves with the original inhabitants, and founded a powerful and splendid empire, comprising the Iberian peninsula, the ancient Narbonnaise, afterwards called Gallia Gothica, or Gothic Gaul, and a part of the African coast called Tingitania.
— from Spanish Papers by Washington Irving

But permit me, please, to call your attention to Mr. Wilson (a stout colored man advanced), who took charge of a little hospital of six cases, and carried them all through day and night without an hour’s relief from any person, and saved every case.”
— from The Red Cross in Peace and War by Clara Barton

It is as plain as such evidence can be, but not plain enough to shake my hope, at least, of his innocence.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 19, April 1874‐September 1874 by Various

In conversation, and in writing, when she felt, she was pathetic, tender and persuasive; and she expressed contempt with such energy, that few could stand the flash of her eyes.
— from Mary: A Fiction by Mary Wollstonecraft

Shading his inflamed eyes with his hand, he mused for some moments, and she saw a perplexed and sorrowful expression cross his features.
— from Vashti; Or, Until Death Us Do Part by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans