Seeing no chance of being ever restored to favor, he went to Spain, and entered into the service of the Saracen king, Ivo.
— from Bulfinch's Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch

The white stripe cut out blackened, etc., reduces the value.
— from Steel Traps Describes the Various Makes and Tells How to Use Them, Also Chapters on Care of Pelts, Etc. by A. R. (Arthur Robert) Harding

My intention of giving the poor old mare a month’s rest was never carried out, because each return to her old recreation—it was never work—made it more evident that the simple change in her life was all she needed; and, although in constant use from the first, she soon put on the flesh and form of a sound horse.
— from Whip and Spur by George E. (George Edwin) Waring

The white stripe cut out, blackened, etc., reduces the value.
— from Deadfalls and Snares A Book of Instruction for Trappers About These and Other Home-Made Traps by A. R. (Arthur Robert) Harding

The work of improving the quality of the average American representative from a small district appears to be hopeless, because as a matter of fact such small districts and the work imposed on their representatives can hardly prove tempting to able men; and unless the American legislator is really capable of becoming exceptionally representative, the fastening of exclusive responsibility upon the state legislatures could hardly result in immediate success.
— from The Promise of American Life by Herbert David Croly

Not Camalodunum only, but every Roman town must be laid in ruins.
— from Beric the Briton : a Story of the Roman Invasion by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

I must confess that nothing, save, perhaps, the conduct of British "experts" regarding the Behring Sea question, has ever come so near shaking my faith in "British fair play."
— from Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 2 by Andrew Dickson White