" Practically speaking, the opponents to a reform in Massachusetts are not a hundred thousand politicians at the South, but a hundred thousand merchants and farmers here, who are more interested in commerce and agriculture than they are in humanity, and are not prepared to do justice to the slave and to Mexico, cost what it may .
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

“A drab of state, a cloth-o’-silver slut, To have her train borne up, and her soul trail in the dirt.” Practically speaking, the opponents to a reform in Massachusetts are not a hundred thousand politicians at the South, but a hundred thousand merchants and farmers here, who are more interested in commerce and agriculture than they are in humanity, and are not prepared to do justice to the slave and to Mexico, cost what it may .
— from On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

Beneath the dark and spreading branches, appeared, to the north, and to the east, the woody Apennines, rising in majestic amphitheatre, not black with pines, as she had been accustomed to see them, but their loftiest summits crowned with antient forests of chesnut, oak, and oriental plane, now animated with the rich tints of autumn, and which swept downward to the valley uninterruptedly, except where some bold rocky promontory looked out from among the foliage, and caught the passing gleam.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

“All right, if Milly asks Norma, you ask your friend, but it’s a case of first catch your house!”
— from The Room with the Tassels by Carolyn Wells

Curves showing the Relation between Intensity of Stimulus and Response in Muscle and Nerve 52 31 .
— from Response in the Living and Non-Living by Jagadis Chandra Bose

One doctor of Sir Richard's acquaintance resided in Moore Alley, near Wapping, and proclaimed his ability to cure cataracts, because he had lost an eye in the emperor's service .
— from A Book About Doctors by John Cordy Jeaffreson

It was said that Curtis had a client whose land had been flowed by a Rhode Island man, and not being willing to pursue him in the courts of the United States, he framed the bill in question.
— from Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 1 by George S. (George Sewall) Boutwell

By solemn legislative acts, the Slave States called on the Free States “promptly and effectually to suppress all those associations within their respective limits purporting to be Abolition Societies”; [1] and Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and New York basely hearkened to the base proposition.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 05 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

But at the distance of thirty years, those who lived in the time of danger and remember its magnitude, and now calmly review what there was in human strength to avert it, must acknowledge, I think, beyond all controversy, that the deliverance of Europe from the dominion of Napoleon was effected neither by Russia, nor by Germany, nor by England, but by the hand of God alone."
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843 by Various