The first embargo laid by Congress was soon after the constitution had undergone a critical and severe scrutiny in every State in the Union, not only by the press, but by the State conventions, a member of one of which he had been, and had assisted in examining it, not with the most delicate hand; but neither that convention nor any other, it was believed, censured the transfer of the power of laying an embargo to the General Government, nor challenged the want of it, nor moved to have it excepted out of the general powers of regulating commerce, as the power of taxing exports had been.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 3 (of 16) by United States. Congress

In all these cases a slight shock is experienced so long as the contact is preserved.
— from The Telephone: A lecture entitled Researches in Electric Telephony by Alexander Graham Bell

We have at present a society in almost every county, a State society in every State, all united in an association and wielding an influence national and world wide.
— from The Cleveland Medical Gazette, Vol. 1, No. 5, March 1886 by Various

Her voice changed as she said it enough so you could feel how furious Miss Lucy could get.
— from Danny's Own Story by Don Marquis