Far up the sky with ever purer beam, Upon the throne of night the moon was seated, And down the valley glens the shades retreated, And silver light was on the open stream.
— from Poems — Volume 1 by George Meredith

He became a king-maker by placing his brothers upon the thrones of Naples, Holland and Westphalia.
— from The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-Christianism in Europe by Francis A. (Francis Aloysius) Cunningham

The advocates of the theory naturally shrink from adopting such a blasphemous conclusion, and fall back upon the theory of negative reprobation, which, however, amounts practically to the same thing.
— from Grace, Actual and Habitual: A Dogmatic Treatise by Joseph Pohle

Then he broke under the torment of not seeing Desire
— from The Thing from the Lake by Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marie) Ingram

There he left them, and turned his back upon the town of Nurenberg.
— from A Picture-book of Merry Tales by Anonymous

Brought up to think of nothing except his own interests and the main chance, he is only saved by an accident from the crime of parricide, and afterwards commits a murder and poisons himself.
— from Life of Charles Dickens by Marzials, Frank T. (Frank Thomas), Sir

It may be urged that trust ought not to be reposed; but trust is the ordinary course of trade, and cannot alter the question.
— from The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy by Rajah of Sarawak James

Where the writers of his day have misrepresented his character or conduct, it is not difficult to discover the fact and to correct the misjudgment; but, unluckily, they too often neglected even to misrepresent him.
— from Red Eagle and the Wars With the Creek Indians of Alabama. by George Cary Eggleston