But we could bring a more cogent example from the modern discipline of the church.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 21, April, 1875, to September, 1875 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

What kind of a service it was for which the unfortunate captives were destined may be learnt from a description given by a careful French writer: "Chained in gangs of six, with no clothing save a loose short jacket, devoured by itch and vermin, shoeless and stockingless, the galley slaves toiled for ten hours consecutively at a rate of exertion which one would hardly have believed a man could endure for one hour.
— from Count Frontenac Makers of Canada, Volume 3 by William Dawson LeSueur

On or before March 15, 1865, the Commissary-General was able to report to the Secretary of War that, in addition to the daily issue of rations to the Army of Northern Virginia, there lay in depot along the railroad between Greensboro, North Carolina, Lynchburg, Staunton, and Richmond, at least ten days' rations of bread and meat, collected especially for that army, and subject to the requisition of its chief commissary officer; also that considerably over 300,000 rations were held in Richmond as a special reserve. . . .
— from The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 2 by Jefferson Davis

Now Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, with all their divine attributes and perfections (excepting their personal properties, which the Schools call the modi subsistendi , that one is the Father, the other the Son, and the other the Holy Ghost, which cannot be communicated to each other) are whole and entire in each Person by a mutual consciousness; each feels the other Persons in himself, all their essential wisdom, power, goodness, justice, as he feels himself, and this makes them essentially one, as I have proved at large.
— from The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 4 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Elvan, B. and Medwyne, C. envoys from St. Lucius to Rome.
— from Apologia Pro Vita Sua by John Henry Newman

If we ask how so burning a memory could escape from the consciousness of a grown woman, we are driven to the conclusion that this forgetting can be the result of no mere quiet fading away, but that there must have been some active force at work which kept the memory from coming into awareness.
— from Outwitting Our Nerves: A Primer of Psychotherapy by Josephine A. (Josephine Agnes) Jackson

In order to have a briefer and more convenient expression for this fundamental thought, I proposed some time ago to call it the “law of substance” or the “fundamental cosmic law”; it might also be called the “universal law,” or the “law of constancy,” or the “axiom of the constancy of the universe.”
— from The Riddle of the Universe at the close of the nineteenth century by Ernst Haeckel

After a third Boorah a man could eat fish, after a fourth honey, after a fifth what he liked.
— from The Euahlayi Tribe: A Study of Aboriginal Life in Australia by K. Langloh (Katie Langloh) Parker

Carl was as much a stranger as on the morning when he had first invaded [253] New York, to find work with an automobile company, and had passed this same restaurant; still was he a segregated stranger, despite the fact that, two blocks away, in the Aero Club, two famous aviators were agreeing that there had never been a more consistently excellent flight in America than Hawk Ericson's race from Chicago to New York.
— from The Trail of the Hawk: A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life by Sinclair Lewis