It was no more than an ordinary camp marking-flag; but the regiment, always punctilious in matters of millinery, had charged it with the regimental device, the Red Bull, which is the crest of the Mavericks—the great Red Bull on a background of Irish green.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

I am persuaded in my own mind that the people have always thought right on this subject, and that their universal and uniform attachment to the cause of the Union rests on great and weighty reasons, which I shall endeavor to develop and explain in some ensuing papers.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

There will be no lack of confidence on the part of those who have already perceived, in much of Mr. Parsons’ work, a supreme illustration of all that is widely nature-loving in the English interest in the flower.
— from Picture and Text 1893 by Henry James

In fact, I am an enthusiast in whatever I am interested in; and at present, I must own, my heart is set upon making a complete collection of Scotch pebbles."
— from Marriage by Susan Ferrier

She wrote a poem in memory of Mr. Booth, "not altogether to my satisfaction.
— from Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910 by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

As we rode along in silence for the remainder of the way out to camp, I had the opportunity to recall the Fort Pickens service, and I wondered and planned in my own mind just how that duel would be carried on there.
— from The Boy Spy A substantially true record of secret service during the war of the rebellion, a correct account of events witnessed by a soldier by Joseph Orton Kerbey

Besides, I recognize something in the careful pride with which you conceal your higher and deeper feelings, resembling the strongest actuating principle in my own mind.
— from Pelham — Volume 06 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

'I am persuaded in my own mind,' continued Clinton, following the course of his reflections—'that Fred Archer is the murderer of that woman.
— from City Crimes; Or, Life in New York and Boston by George Thompson

For it is striking that the same letters are present in “morsh” or “moršša” as in “rosm(hvalr),” or in “rosmar”; there [Pg 175] is only a transference of consonants, which is often met with in borrowed words in different languages.
— from In Northern Mists: Arctic Exploration in Early Times (Volume 2 of 2) by Fridtjof Nansen

As much as possible, I made of myself a companion for her and the most of our days were spent together.
— from The House of the Misty Star A Romance of Youth and Hope and Love in Old Japan by Frances Little

But as for the soul,—bah!—we are but modifications of matter, and painting is modification of matter also.”
— from Zanoni by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron