Chevalier de Malet, Recherches politiques et historiques , p. 2 (1817).
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

Neither were all the class designated as carpetbaggers dishonourable men.
— from Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington

1866–1869 El Mariscal de Campo de Manuel Maldonado (acting).
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; ] A state of doubt and uncertainty, a conscious feeling or apprehension, a misgiving "How our audit stands."
— from Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare

le meilleur créature du monde!"
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

Slow though the process of selection may be, if feeble man can do much by his powers of artificial selection, I can see no limit to the amount of change, to the beauty and infinite complexity of the coadaptations between all organic beings, one with another and with their physical conditions of life, which may be effected in the long course of time by nature's power of selection.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

4 , and Rodericus a Castro, de morbis mulier.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

“Why?” “Oh, she was not strong enough, and had seen some of his friends' wives in Kansas who could do more work.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

For a month [214] thereafter the ship was actively employed on the southern coast, drilling militia at different ports, and sweltering in the new dock at Port Royal.
— from The Romance of Modern Mechanism With Interesting Descriptions in Non-technical Language of Wonderful Machinery and Mechanical Devices and Marvellously Delicate Scientific Instruments by Archibald Williams

Of course, my dear sir, on many occasions, and each time with the same unswerving devotion," when, as is not infrequently the case, one man contrives to keep up an apparently parallel correspondence with that portion of the community whom he designates as his "Lidy friends," and, equally oblivious of amanuensis and censor, dispatches missives, identical in expressions of passionate devotion, to each of the respective recipients.
— from Eighteen Months in the War Zone The Record of a Woman's Work on the Western Front by Kate John Finze

La Ferrière has an extended account of the negotiations in Correspondance de Catherine de Médicis , II, Introd., xxxiv-xliv.
— from The Wars of Religion in France 1559-1576 The Huguenots, Catherine de Medici and Philip II by James Westfall Thompson

Catherine de Medicis got splendid books on the same terms as foreign pirates procure English novels—she stole them.
— from Books and Bookmen by Andrew Lang

The dredge hauls this sand away as it accumulates, and by deepening the water in the channel does much toward attracting the steady flow of water to the particular lines so dredged.
— from Old Times on the Upper Mississippi The Recollections of a Steamboat Pilot from 1854 to 1863 by George Byron Merrick

[182] D'Allocco , "Parecchi casi di mioclonia, la maggior parte familiari," Riforma medica , vol.
— from Tics and Their Treatment by Henry Meige

Besides, Max can do much as he likes with them.”
— from The Bandbox by Louis Joseph Vance

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— from A Hermit of Carmel, and Other Poems by George Santayana