We do not say that none but real christians have adopted correct views respecting civil and religious liberty;—but we affirm that these views owe their origin entirely to christianity and its genuine disciples.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

not So wide We made a Mast of Cotton wood, to day in the Course of the evening & night it turned of a butifull red Colour H2 anchor
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

of the two last the nativs make great use in prepareing their mats bags &c. in those bags they Carry their fish Berries roots &c. H2 anchor
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

And not only because the commander beareth the burden of all obeyers, and because this burden readily crusheth him:— An attempt and a risk seemed all commanding unto me; and whenever it commandeth, the living thing risketh itself thereby.
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted and rather selfish is to be ill-disposed: but he was, in general, well respected; for he conducted himself with propriety in the discharge of his ordinary duties.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Those manufactured by reliable concerns, however, are virtually caffein-free, their content of the alkaloid varying from 0.3 to 0.07 percent as opposed to 1.5 percent in the untreated coffee.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Corn rigs, an' barley rigs, &c. H2 anchor Song Composed
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

The Visayan Islands became the Department of Visayas, divided into [ 267 ] districts commanded either by regimental commanders having a regiment or more with them, or by general officers.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

Had he met in his lieutenants such ready instruments as Nelson found prepared for him, there can be little doubt that Hughes's squadron would have been destroyed while inferior to Suffren's, before reinforcements could have arrived; and with the English fleet it could scarcely have failed that the Coromandel coast also would have fallen.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

But Roy caught her arm and pulled her back while he stepped in front of her.
— from The Girl Aviators and the Phantom Airship by Margaret Burnham

I told the fellow that I had indeed a young brother Richard, and that my young brother Richard certainly had a limp.
— from Ambrotox and Limping Dick by Oliver Fleming

The whole morning she had spent at her toilette, carefully selecting—with an agitation which would have been ridiculous, considering her age and appearance, had it not been so intensely pathetic—the raiment which she thought would become her most.
— from The Tangled Skein by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

A coil of the boat raft caught his ankle as the strain was suddenly tightened by a rather heavy sea, and literally tore the front part of his foot completely off, besides dislocating and fracturing the ankle-bone.
— from Life of John Coleridge Patteson : Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

True bills were at once drawn up by the prosecuting attorney of Mesa County, an official elected by Ridgway, charging Harley and Donleavy with conspiracy, resulting in the murder of Vance Edwards.
— from Ridgway of Montana (Story of To-Day, in Which the Hero Is Also the Villain) by William MacLeod Raine

The theory that the Balkan States should be limited by racial conditions has also prevailed in this country, among such people as were interested enough to give the matter a single thought.
— from Ferdinand of Bulgaria: The Amazing Career of a Shoddy Czar by Anonymous

"Oh, darling, don't act this way," begged Rosemary, catching her and holding her close.
— from Rosemary by Josephine Lawrence

Coming to the conclusion that the author must be rather clever, he at once consulted him.
— from The Cleveland Medical Gazette, Vol. 1, No. 4, February 1886 by Various