"A very few days after the fatal declaration of independence I received a letter from Mr. Hancock, sent by express to Germantown, where my family were for the summer season, acquainting me I was appointed Chaplain to the Congress, and desired my attendance next morning at nine o'clock.
— from The Loyalists of Massachusetts and the Other Side of the American Revolution by James Henry Stark

Be these the Christian and divine mysteries, and not rather the dreams of men? Be these the faithful dispensers of God’s mysteries, and not rather false dissipators of them?
— from Sermons on the Card, and Other Discourses by Hugh Latimer

Then he answered, 'Thinkest thou that I possess the power to cure a dying man and not to send thee home before the Sabbath?
— from Rabbi and Priest: A Story by Milton Goldsmith

And, think you, he came of a time when a man might be a carpenter at dawn, merchant at noon, lawyer by night, and yet be respected every hour of the day, if he deserved it as a man.
— from The Way to the West, and the Lives of Three Early Americans: Boone—Crockett—Carson by Emerson Hough

The jolly-boat might carry a dozen men at need, though they would be crowded and much exposed to fire; and he, therefore, caused eight to get into her, and to pull out to the launch.
— from Homeward Bound; Or, the Chase: A Tale of the Sea by James Fenimore Cooper

I defy any person to read through the despatches upon this subject as a whole (for perhaps detached passages taken without the contents might be quoted which would convey a different meaning), and not to perceive that the view entertained from [Pg 291] first to last was, that convicts, after having undergone the most severe part of their punishment, were to be removed to the Australian colonies, and a very large portion of them to Van Diemen's Land.
— from The History of Tasmania, Volume I by John West

Compared with others, he has shown in these excursions a cautious and discreet moderation, and no inclination for the quarrels and verbal combats often dear to logicians.
— from Life of Luther by Julius Köstlin

During the first year the greatest care is taken to guard the child against cats, evil spirits, and other dangerous influences, after which time the above-mentioned white stone is replaced by a round-shaped bone, and on his little cap are hung the argushtek (a piece of wood, carved and dyed mysteriously), a nusha (amulet), which must be written by the hand of some learned man, several corals, the tooth of an hyæna, and, if circumstances permit, a small bag with holy earth from the grave of Mohamed.
— from Sketches of Central Asia (1868) Additional chapters on my travels, adventures, and on the ethnology of Central Asia by Ármin Vámbéry