If I had a brother, I would ask him, 'When will you show the courage of Michael Bestoujif?'" Lord Evelyn glanced at her with a strange, admiring, proud look.
— from Sunrise by William Black

There are fourteen clauses: the first and fifth may be quoted—“1 st , That an asylum for unprotected and destitute children be founded in and for the county of Middlesex by legislative enactment, and placed under the direction and management of the justices of the peace for the county.”
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 by Various

St. Gregory the Great mentions, that these poor countrymen had prepared themselves for the glorious crown of martyrdom, by lives employed in the exercises of devotion and voluntary penance, and by patience in bearing afflictions; also, that they had the heroic courage to suffer joyfully the most cruel torments and death, rather than offend God by sin, because his love reigned in their hearts.
— from The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints. January, February, March by Alban Butler

The religious consciousness of men becomes less exclusively occupied with the hurts they suffer, and comes more and more to reflect upon the benefits they enjoy.
— from The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck

The halls are in keeping with the court; they are filled with stands of arms, coats of mail, breastplates, lances, etc.
— from Anecdotal Recollections of the Congress of Vienna by La Garde-Chambonas, Auguste Louis Charles, Comte de

“I called on Miss Berber last evening,” Stefan announced casually at breakfast the next morning.
— from The Nest Builder: A Novel by Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale