[249] Besides the many capacities in which Col. Allan did good service to the community, as detailed during our survey of Front Street, he was also, in 1801, Returning Officer on the occasion of a public election.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

You know how perished Crœsus, Astyages, Darius, Dionysius of Syracuse, Pyrrhus, Perseus, Hannibal, Jugurtha, Ariovistus, Cæsar, Pompey, Nero, Otho, Vitellius, Domitian, Richard II. of England, Edward II., Henry VI., Richard III., Mary Stuart, Charles I., the three Henrys of France, the Emperor Henry IV.!
— from Candide by Voltaire

5 II On this landscape of false confidence and deep despair, of scientific enlightenment and spiritual gloom, there appeared, as the twentieth century opened, the luminous figure of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá.
— from Century of Light by Bahá'í International Community

There were different degrees of criminality, and different degrees of sympathy with Him, if I may use the word, in that crowd that stood round the Master.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. Mark by Alexander Maclaren

From the distance came a dull drone of sound which brought him to his feet with a start.
— from The Solar Magnet by S. P. (Sterner St. Paul) Meek

It penetrated every Southern river, severing Confederate communications and destroying depots of supplies.
— from The Abolition Crusade and Its Consequences: Four Periods of American History by Hilary A. (Hilary Abner) Herbert

Then Bob went below for what he called a "double dose of snoozin'.
— from A Runaway Brig; Or, An Accidental Cruise by James Otis

"He wanted to consult HER upon the subject of creating a Divine Drama, or some such nonsense."
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

What we commonly call public opinion—the cut and dried decision on social and civic questions—is made up in the house.
— from California and the Californians by David Starr Jordan

Chocolates with meal addition must contain on the wrapper a concise and definite declaration of such addition on the wrapper.
— from The Manufacture of Chocolate and other Cacao Preparations by Paul Zipperer