What shall we think, in consequence, of the intellectual and moral sterility of the orthodox world of the eleventh century, when we find this heretical man, this rebellious woman, arguing incessantly about unrealities, crushing out all human feeling, judging all questions of cause and effect, settling all relations of life, with reference to a system of intricate symbolical riddles?
— from Renaissance Fancies and Studies Being a Sequel to Euphorion by Vernon Lee

These pictures of old social and political conditions are especially suggestive as reminding us that a single life, only lately closed, linked us with days, events and men that were a part of our early history and appear remote because of the multitude of changes that have transformed society in the interval.
— from Maria Edgeworth by Helen Zimmern

The Chinese populace, who have done a hundred times more than the invaders in the way of pillage, burning, and destruction in Pekin, the uniformly dirty populace, dressed in [132] blue cotton, with squinting, evil eyes, swarm and crawl about, eagerly searching and raising a perfect cloud of microbes and dust.
— from The Last Days of Pekin by Pierre Loti

[1193] “I believe I have summoned such a Council and effected such a reformation as will make the ears of the Papists tingle and their heart burst with malice....
— from Luther, vol. 4 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

The 2-076] moment had been skilfully chosen, and Edward showed a rare ability in the movements by which he took advantage of the Earl's position.
— from History of the English People, Volume II The Charter, 1216-1307; The Parliament, 1307-1400 by John Richard Green

In eastern Asia, again, Coelho in 1516 sailed up the coast of Cochin China and explored Siam; Andrade reached Canton in 1517 and Pekin in 1521; and in 1520 the invincible Magellan, entering the service of Spain, [948] achieved his great passage to the Pacific.
— from The Evolution of States by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson

Outdoor clothing and equipment, such as riding breeches, blankets, dunnage bags, and the like, may be rented at Giant Forest.
— from Sequoia [California] National Park by United States. Department of the Interior

" HE DID COME, and Egypt sank a ruinous heap, and her blood closed over her.
— from The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4 by American Anti-Slavery Society

In these circles also every supposedly adverse result of critical study is welcomed and remembered.
— from The Greatest English Classic A Study of the King James Version of the Bible and Its Influence on Life and Literature by Cleland Boyd McAfee