"To have continued indefinitely the most efficient cause, support, and stay of the Rebellion, would have been, in our judgment, unjust to the Loyal people whose treasure and lives are made a willing sacrifice on the altar of patriotism—would have discriminated against the wife who is compelled to surrender her husband, against the parent who is to surrender his child, to the hardships of the camp and the perils of battle, in favor of Rebel masters permitted to retain their Slaves.
— from Project Gutenberg Edition of The Memoirs of Four Civil War Generals by John Alexander Logan

Bad habits of sitting, standing, walking, and breathing are acquired, and many forms of structural weakness developed which not only unfit the mind for the best work, but which later either become ineradicably fixed, or require much time and labor to correct.
— from Health: How to get it and keep it. The hygiene of dress, food, exercise, rest, bathing, breathing, and ventilation. by Walter V. Woods

Every time we feared to tell him that the puncture was necessary, but he received the news with complete coolness, saying that he had always been in favour of radical measures.
— from Life of Elie Metchnikoff, 1845-1916 by Olga Metchnikoff

The observation has not been controverted; but must be received with a certain amount of hesitancy, in consequence of an evident bias in favour of radical measures of operative treatment.
— from The Barbarity of Circumcision as a Remedy for Congenital Abnormality by Herbert Snow

All women should be in favour of reasonable measures for ensuring the voluntary, and failing that the compulsory, treatment of venereal disease among men and among women.
— from Safe Marriage: A Return to Sanity by Ettie Annie Rout

Though according to every probability the Court's judgment would be in favour of revision, M. Zola was resolved to return home whatever might be the issue, and such were his feelings on the matter that nothing any friend might have urged would have prevented him from doing so.
— from With Zola in England: A Story of Exile by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly