So that the Matter of it, which is a Washing with Water, and the Effect of it, which is only an outward Cleansing, being still the same, how comes Water-baptism to be less a carnal Ordinance now than before?
— from An Apology for the True Christian Divinity Being an explanation and vindication of the principles and doctrines of the people called Quakers by Robert Barclay

At first she babbled like a child of not being thirsty; but I was insistent.
— from The Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime fool of the court of Pesaro by Rafael Sabatini

It is called Lami’s series by some, after Father Bernard Lami, a contemporary of Newton’s, and one of the co-discoverers of the parallelogram of forces.
— from On Growth and Form by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

But they were two of the kindest old people in the world, and would cheerfully have gone without their dinners, any day, rather than refuse a slice of their brown loaf, a cup of new milk, and a spoonful of honey, to the weary traveler who might pause before their door.
— from A Wonder Book for Girls & Boys by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The line of division between labor and capital ought not always to be the sharp boundary that it is.
— from Social Justice Without Socialism by John Bates Clark