Phillips and his following held that "no emancipation can be effectual and no freedom real, unless the negro has the ballot and the States are prohibited from enacting laws making any distinction among their citizens on Account of race or color."
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

And within the pack-part a part for each card, as within the table-part a part for each leg?
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

can it be that we are parted for ever? Lord!”
— from Palissy the Huguenot Potter: A True Tale by C. L. (Cecilia Lucy) Brightwell

This is then placed in the polariscope, and protected from external light by closing the cover shown at h´ .
— from Food Adulteration and Its Detection With photomicrographic plates and a bibliographical appendix by Jesse P. (Jesse Park) Battershall

The post farmers, however, agreed to pay a penny for every letter delivered by a captain on his arrival.
— from The History of the British Post Office by Joseph Clarence Hemmeon

When a person, for example, labours under delirium, and is affected with thirst, the minds is either so agitated with other objects, that this sensation is overlooked, or, instead of producing a craving for drink, it excites some other disagreeable emotion in consequence of the disordered state of sensorium .
— from Observations on the Diseases of Seamen by Blane, Gilbert, Sir

Could they witness the almost idolatrous homage which he receives, throned in state, tiaraed with a triple crown, presenting his foot for the humiliating osculation of bishops, cardinals, ambassadors, and pilgrims from every land; could they behold him summoning from the ends of the earth the prelates of Roman Catholic Christendom to record a decree of his personal infallibility and freedom from human error; they would regard as blasphemous these unhallowed assumptions, and denounce, as the prophetic Antichrist, him who laid claim to these awful attributes.
— from The Catacombs of Rome, and Their Testimony Relative to Primitive Christianity by W. H. (William Henry) Withrow

When, that night, the Book was read, And she bowed her widowed head, And a prayer for each loved name Rose like incense from a flame, To the listening ear of Heaven, Lo!
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

"But the rest's a necessity: not that I love new paint or am pining for electric light, but
— from A Thief in the Night: Further adventures of A. J. Raffles, Cricketer and Cracksman by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung

These were hardened, embittered, men who paid for the zeal of their Indian allies accordingly as they received tangible proof thereof; in other words, they hired them to murder non-combatants as well as soldiers, and paid for each life, of any sort, that was taken.
— from The Winning of the West, Volume 2 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783 by Theodore Roosevelt