When he desired to summon a sleeping Church to the [33] great work of evangelising India, the man he called to the front was Carey, a poor cobbler of Northampton.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Samuel by William Garden Blaikie

The nuns of the order of St Clare, called also Poor Clares or Nuns Minoresses, had been established in connection with the Franciscan friars, and owned three houses, of which the house in London, known as the Minories, was of considerable importance.
— from Woman under Monasticism Chapters on Saint-Lore and Convent Life between A.D. 500 and A.D. 1500 by Lina Eckenstein

But, 3. He may remove upon many just causes, (private or public,) whether the church and pastors consent or not, so the manner be as becometh a christian.
— from A Christian Directory, Part 3: Christian Ecclesiastics by Richard Baxter

The type is incomplete caudally, at present consisting of ninety-five somites and having a length [7] of 35 mm.
— from Journal of Entomology and Zoology, Vol. 11, No. 1, March 1919 by Various

Children are like birds of a social and loquacious disposition in their fondness for a set call, a penetrative cry or note, by means of which they can converse at long distances.
— from Birds and Man by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

She is a sweet young creature; a perfect child of nature; and has already become even a more faithful believer than her brother, who cannot, as yet, understand why he should not destroy his enemies wherever he can find them.”
— from Exiled for the Faith: A Tale of the Huguenot Persecution by William Henry Giles Kingston

Men hoped to avoid what all feared, civil war; and it is to the credit of both sections and both cabinets that they hesitated to commit the overt act which was to set free the “dogs of war”; and while public opinion was thus halted at the parting of the ways, Virginia, still thought of as the great old commonwealth and mother of statesmen, called a peace congress of North [Pg 273] and South.
— from Expansion and Conflict by William Edward Dodd

Many Catholics are practically conscious of no difference from the higher Anglican or Lutheran view of the Real Presence.
— from Letters of Lord Acton to Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron

These "adventurers," as they styled themselves, were desirous of driving a good bargain in a low price for the land and also of gaining certain guarantees from Congress which would give them as much personal liberty and protection in the new home and under the National Government as they enjoyed in their present residences under their State Governments. Cutler, provided with forty-two letters of introduction to members of Congress and prominent citizens of New York city, reached the seat of government in due time.
— from The United States of America, Part 1: 1783-1830 by Edwin Erle Sparks

Besides being an executive as governor of a great State and administrator as civil-service commissioner and police commissioner of New York, he was an author of popular books and a field naturalist of rare acquirements.
— from My Memories of Eighty Years by Chauncey M. (Chauncey Mitchell) Depew