Thanksgiving that the human race Can lift once more a rev’rent face, And say, ‘God helps the Right.’
— from Hello, Boys! by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Many of the Carabus family, when they are caught, try to defend themselves by throwing out a corrosive liquid; others make a report, accompanied by smoke, which has given them their name of bombardier ."
— from Adventures of a Young Naturalist by Lucien Biart

It is perhaps quite needless to say that pirates are often men who are engaged in the laudable undertaking of protecting the shipping from pirates, just as admission to the bar is a sort of commercial letter of marque and reprisal.
— from Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers by Elbert Hubbard

One of the most charming ladies of my acquaintance, remonstrating with her mother for letting the fire go out on a rather chilly day, exclaimed, "O dear mamma, how could you be so careless?
— from Collections and Recollections by George William Erskine Russell

He was too deeply imbued with modern fashionable atheism to think seriously about angels or Resurrection trumps, but there was a certain love of mysticism and romance in his nature, which not even his Oxford experiences and the chilly dullness of English materialism had been able to eradicate.
— from Thelma by Marie Corelli

Vessels carrying letters of marque and reprisal are called privateers .
— from Elements of Civil Government A Text-Book for Use in Public Schools, High Schools and Normal Schools and a Manual of Reference for Teachers by Alexander L. Peterman

It contains lists of mountains and rivers, with valuable notes on their mineral productions, fauna and flora.
— from Mythical Monsters by Charles Gould