How limited his scholastic attainments were has already been stated; and though his industry in pursuit of knowledge later in life did much to make up the deficiency occasioned by lack of opportunity in early life, yet, when that is allowed, it must still be said that he was not a learned man in the sense in which that phrase is understood by the world.
— from A New Witness for God (Volume 1 of 3) by B. H. (Brigham Henry) Roberts

Our earth—Law has shaped that; brought Life out of it; evolved Life on it from the lowest to the highest; lifted primeval Man to modern Man; out of barbarism developed civilization; out of prehistoric religions, historic religions.
— from The Reign of Law; a tale of the Kentucky hemp fields by James Lane Allen

The Senate took into consideration the report of the committee on the bill to amend the [Pg 427] act to establish the Judicial Courts of the United States; the first clause of which is as follows: Strike out the whole of the bill after the word "serve," in third line, and insert "in the Courts of the United States, shall be designated by lot, or otherwise, in each State or district respectively, according to the mode of forming juries, to serve in the highest courts of law therein, now practised; so far as the same shall render such designation practicable by the Courts and Marshals of the United States."
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 2 (of 16) by United States. Congress

The wash-tub fellows will have to be left out of it entirely.
— from Back Home by Eugene Wood

It may be remembered, in connection with the Fleet Prison episode of “Pickwick,” 185 that Sam Weller adverts to the almost identical case of an old prisoner, to whom the jail had become such a home that the fear of being locked out of it eventually deterred him from taking the sly tastes of liberty which the turnkeys were willing to allow him.
— from In Jail with Charles Dickens by Alfred Trumble

Our human nature is essentially little different from that of the Chinese, but lack of opportunity is everywhere recognized as a great preservative of virtue.
— from Habits that Handicap: The Menace of Opium, Alcohol, and Tobacco, and the Remedy by Charles Barnes Towns

This despotic government had the right to require the services of all its subjects in case of need; and it was only the centralised government of the colony, and the warlike and adventurous character of its small feudalised society, which enabled it to hold its own for so long against the superior numbers but laxer organisation of its English neighbours.
— from The Expansion of Europe; The Culmination of Modern History by Ramsay Muir

"Oh, the girls are grouching a little because they helped earn all this, and are to be left out of it," explained Robert in a low voice.
— from A Daughter of the Land by Gene Stratton-Porter