“Didst thou ever see men of better equipment than these of red and blue?” asked the king.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

Without the Spirit man is so infirm that he cannot, with all other means whatsoever, be enabled to think one right saving thought of God, of Christ, or of his blessed things; and therefore he saith of the wicked, "God is not in all his thoughts," (Psa 10:4); unless it be that they imagine him altogether such a one as themselves (Psa 50:21).
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01 by John Bunyan

When the country learnt that to Lord Lothersdale had been entrusted the task of reforming the Army it heaved a sigh of content, for it knew that the work was now as good as done; and when the news reached the Continent the officers of the Great General Staff of the German Army were noticed to wear a sad and pensive look unusual to them.
— from The Burglars' Club: A Romance in Twelve Chronicles by Henry Augustus Hering

What then am I to do, since I cannot stop writing, or bear even the thought of rest?
— from Petrarch, the First Modern Scholar and Man of Letters A Selection from His Correspondence with Boccaccio and Other Friends, Designed to Illustrate the Beginnings of the Renaissance by Francesco Petrarca

“The nation ought undoubtedly to become responsible for the public debt, inasmuch as the sums which compose that debt have been lent to the nation, have been employed by the nation, and have been entrusted to the only recognised representative of the nation.
— from Reminiscences of Prince Talleyrand, Volume 2 (of 2) by Colmache, M., active 19th century

Its industrial and agricultural products, in turn, have been exported to the other republics.
— from The 1993 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

it is equall to the quadrates ea , and au : Take away from each side the common oblong al , and the quadrate yr , shall be equall to the oblong ri .
— from The Way To Geometry by Petrus Ramus

She was difficult to educate, but even the toil of reducing these chaotic talents to order was a pleasure.
— from A Twofold Life by Wilhelmine von Hillern

Very few of his pictures belong exclusively to the one realm or the other, but to one or other belongs the influence which predominates in any one.
— from Botticelli by Henry Bryan Binns

The consternation deepened as the primary proceeded and it became evident that the oldtime ring of city rulers was outnumbered.
— from In His Steps by Charles M. Sheldon

They have found out that this new comradeship is better even than the old romantic love of their courting days.
— from The Eighth Year: A Vital Problem of Married Life by Philip Gibbs