263 The foregoing account of the proceedings in the Cork and Dublin unions, exhibits the actual working of the Poor Law in the only unions in which it had been in operation sufficiently long for showing any definite result.
— from A history of the Irish poor law, in connexion with the condition of the people by Nicholls, George, Sir

He was a survival himself, one of the old-fashioned kind of military men who were all formed on the same plan; they got their uniform, their politics, their vices, and their code of honour cut and dried, upon entering the service, and occasionally left the latter with their agents to be taken care of for them while they served.
— from The Heavenly Twins by Sarah Grand

To cast a doubt upon even the least of his declarations touching the doings of the Roman General is the signal for a blaze of arguments down all his battle front; and I really do not like even to speculate upon what might happen were I to meet one of his major propositions with a flat denial!
— from The Christmas Kalends of Provence And Some Other Provençal Festivals by Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone) Janvier

It was a dangerous and arduous post for the rather small detachment, which, many miles distant from its comrades, almost daily undertook excursions to the mountains, thereby placing itself in constant danger of an attack for which this region was only too favorable.
— from A Hero of the Pen by E. Werner

The majority of cases in criminal courts are decided upon evidence that is circumstantial.
— from Systematic Theology (Volume 1 of 3) by Augustus Hopkins Strong

The one thing that, after the spreading, well-tilled fields surrounding every village, the great herds of cattle, and the general aspect of prosperity everywhere met with, most impressed the two travellers during their progress through the Makolo country, was the extraordinary courtesy and deference uniformly extended to them by the natives.
— from The Adventures of Dick Maitland: A Tale of Unknown Africa by Harry Collingwood