(Back) Footnote 22: C. Ilbert, Parliament, its History, Constitution, and Practice (London and New York, 1911), 28-29.
— from The Governments of Europe by Frederic Austin Ogg

“Whatever has occurred that you don’t like is my fault, Mrs. Curtis,” she confessed, “and Phil, Lillian and Nellie have stood by me.
— from Madge Morton's Victory by Amy D. V. Chalmers

In reference to the historical past that we referred to in this first part, it is convenient to retain that if wars and battles have had a determined result due to the phases each nation was undergoing, and that these were not real struggles but disputes between an empire or ethnic group against another one, each one in determined phases with characteristics and precise laws and not as it was thought and is still thought today, then, we can project the historical event to the future in a prospective field, with the phases of those nations and reason, in this plane of High Strategy, in order to take up the matter with truth as a principle.
— from The Mathematical-Historical Principles and the Evolution of Liberty by Víctor José Fernández Bolívar

I most heartily and sincerely rejoice with you, and congratulate you, upon this happy termination to the trouble and anxiety, the continuous and persevering labor, and never-ceasing and sleepless energy, which the successful accomplishment of this vast and noble enterprise has cost you.
— from The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph by Henry M. (Henry Martyn) Field

Alternating work and rest, sufficient recreation and amusement, and always some change after prolonged labor are necessary to keep one in good physical condition.
— from Vesper Talks to Girls by Laura A. (Laura Anna) Knott

When Palamides came to the city he was received with the greatest joy, and the more so when the people saw what a handsome and well-built man he was, neither too young nor too old, with clean and powerful limbs, and no defect of body.
— from Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 14 (of 15), King Arthur (2) by Malory, Thomas, Sir

The dog had never learned to climb a perpendicular ladder, and never did he feel so much his master's greatness and his own dependence upon him, as when he crept under his arm for this perilous ascent.
— from Youth and the Bright Medusa by Willa Cather

J. Louis Engdahl of Chicago at present leads a new Left Wing radical minority within the Party.
— from The Red Conspiracy by Joseph J. Mereto

Mrs. Johnson gave the Count [137] his congé and threatened him with all sorts of condign vengeance, but Sir Charles said Count Albert probably laughed, as no doubt it was not the first time he had tried the same little game.
— from The Letters of Her Mother to Elizabeth by W. R. H. (William Rutherford Hayes) Trowbridge