They won't overturn the Constitution with our friend Brooke's head for a battering ram." "Oh, I don't mean that," said Sir James, who, after putting down his hat and throwing himself into a chair, had begun to nurse his leg and examine the sole of his boot with much bitterness.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

She did not know then that it was Love who had come to her briefly, as in a dream before awaking, with the hues of morning on his wings—that it was Love to whom she was sobbing her farewell as his image was banished by the blameless rigor of irresistible day.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

island of Fernando Po, regard the cobra-capella as their guardian deity, who can do them good or ill, bestow riches or inflict disease and death.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

The last sob of little Sebastijonas has been stifled, and the orchestra has once more been reminded of its duty.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

But it has had many followers, and the hardy modern reader, when he read’s Gray’s note from Cambridge, needs to be reminded of its date.
— from The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole

The General Field Marshal had declared, however, that if the request should be refused, or if dishonoring conditions should be imposed, the fight must and could go on.
— from And the Kaiser abdicates: The German Revolution November 1918-August 1919 by S. Miles (Stephen Miles) Bouton

One of the things that had pleased her in him formerly was the tranquillity which gave one the impression that here was a man who could be relied on in difficulties.
— from The Magician by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

Pitt, on the other hand, maintained it to be the constitutional doctrine that, when a Sovereign is, by reason of infancy, disease, or absence, incapable of exercising the regal functions, it belongs to the Estates of the realm to determine who shall be the vicegerent and with what portion of the executive authority such vicegerent shall be entrusted.
— from Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 3 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

William Laud, from A.D. 1633 Archbishop of Canterbury, was the recklessly zealous promoter of his despotic ideas, representing the Episcopacy, by reason of its Divine institution and apostolic succession, as the foundation of the church and the pillar of an absolute monarchy.
— from Church History, Volume 3 (of 3) by J. H. (Johann Heinrich) Kurtz

This may be real or indirectly due to the presence of an excess of anti-coagulant such as formalin or sodium sulphite.
— from The Preparation of Plantation Rubber by Sidney Morgan

The sauce had indeed proved piquant, but by reason of its difficulty of access.
— from The Opened Shutters: A Novel by Clara Louise Burnham

Nevertheless, in the last year, 5,812 persons 163 were sent back for lack of visible means of support, 51 because of criminal record, and 1773 by reason of infectious diseases.
— from The Americans by Hugo Münsterberg

For dhis rezon, goald must no longuer be robbed ov its depressive servile, wonce legally seen in gould .
— from A Minniature ov Inglish Orthoggraphy by James Elphinston