Brenda is not shallow or changeable; it may be her one chance of happiness that her parents in their anxious affection are trying to remove her from, and which she will cling to with every invisible fiber of her being until she conquers, or turns into a dismal old maid.
— from Aurora the Magnificent by Gertrude Hall Brownell

It has been stated above that every race of mankind, however primitive or advanced it may be, holds some form of religious belief based upon some conception of the supernatural powers back of the world; and what the universe is conceived to be must largely determine the particular characteristics of a theology, and through this the special form of its attendant religion.
— from The Doctrine of Evolution: Its Basis and Its Scope by Henry Edward Crampton

[195] opposite the copses of Pierre Percée, so that by three o'clock he was able to bring up seven companies on the east side of Beaune.
— from The Franco-German War of 1870-71 by Moltke, Helmuth, Graf von

And then he went on, less at his ease: "But does not the señora know that Señor Merriam sailed on the Pajaro for Panama at three o'clock of this afternoon?" II THE THEORY AND THE HOUND Not many days ago my old friend from the tropics, J. P. Bridger, United States consul on the island of Ratona, was in the city.
— from Whirligigs by O. Henry

Also, perhaps in consequence of its lower conductivity for heat, it very often breaks under sudden changes of temperature during work.
— from The Methods of Glass Blowing and of Working Silica in the Oxy-Gas Flame For the use of chemical and physical students by W. A. (William Ashwell) Shenstone

This, however, is an error, for I observed that the builders used stones cut on the side facing the outer surface of the pillars, leaving the inner sides uncut; and as they did not perfectly fit one into another, but left cavities sometimes 3 inches deep, they were filled up with fragments of stone rubble which I found, and the whole was no doubt smoothed and polished over with mortar or cement.
— from The Ancient Cities of the New World Being Travels and Explorations in Mexico and Central America From 1857-1882 by Désiré Charnay

[104] It is difficult for many a modern mind to understand the passion of spiritual chivalry felt by the generations that built cathedrals for her whom they called their sovereign lady, but unless some comprehension of that mystic ideal is grasped no complete sympathy for mediæval art is possible.
— from How France Built Her Cathedrals: A Study in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries by Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly

We have before us several copies of The Canadian Gem and Family Visitor , published at Cobourg; and edited by Joseph H. 363 Leonard, 1848.
— from History of the settlement of Upper Canada (Ontario,) with special reference to the Bay Quinté by William Canniff

But until some convulsion of the globe shall make England Continental , so long must her chief force be naval, her chief defence be by her strength at sea, and her chief victories be gained on the ocean.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 64, No. 397, November 1848 by Various

One widow, however, is recorded who lived to the age of eighty and brought up seven children on the produce of a narrow edging, which she sold at sixpence a yard.
— from History of Lace by Palliser, Bury, Mrs.