The Sidhe -folk appear to be pre-eminently and distinctively Milesian, but the geancanach (name of some little spirit in Meath and portion of Ulster) may have been believed in by a race entirely different from that which believed in the clúracaun (a Munster sprite).
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

Even in the quiet conversation of Malcolm and Macduff, Macbeth is imagined as holding a bloody sceptre, and Scotland as a country bleeding and receiving every day a new gash added to her wounds.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

Yet this is not a late travesty of Buddhism but a relatively early development which must have begun about the Christian era.
— from Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 by Eliot, Charles, Sir

Having now examined the tests of intrinsic merit, let me revert for a moment to my remark, a few pages back, to the effect that "Looking Backward" and "Robert Elsmere" deserve a high rank.
— from The World's Best Books : A Key to the Treasures of Literature by Frank Parsons

"What sort of a dream?" "Well, it naturally must have been a rather extraordinary dream to affect him so strongly.
— from The Secret of the League: The Story of a Social War by Ernest Bramah

Go down betime and rescue earth, Dethroning death and hell.
— from Elias: An Epic of the Ages by Orson F. (Orson Ferguson) Whitney

“Don’t bully her, Max, or there’ll be a row,” exclaimed Dick fiercely.
— from Sawn Off: A Tale of a Family Tree by George Manville Fenn

"Not on your life," returned Fouche, "but a real elegant divorce, followed by an imperial wedding, would rattle the bones of this blase old Paris as they haven't been rattled since Robespierre's day."
— from Mr. Bonaparte of Corsica by John Kendrick Bangs

These extraordinary privileges were put in force by a royal edict, dated in September, 1717.
— from The Making of the Great West, 1512-1883 by Samuel Adams Drake

If they were able to-day to produce the articles in common use as boots, shoes, hats, cotton and woolen goods, made-up clothing and enterprises such as farming, mining, forging, carpentering, etc., negroes would find a ready sale in prefer [69] ence to all others, because of its being a race enterprise, doing what no other corporation does, giving employment to members of the race as tradesmen, and teaching others to become skilled workers.
— from Memories of Childhood's Slavery Days by Annie L. Burton