In testimony of these sentiments, Illinois enacted a "black code" of most preposterous and cruel severity,—a code that would have been a disgrace to a Slave State, and was simply an infamy in a free one.
— from The Life of Abraham Lincoln, from His Birth to His Inauguration as President by Ward Hill Lamon

They sometimes regard the Sermon on the Mount as if it were a collection of moral precepts, and consequently, strictly speaking, not Christianity at all.
— from Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series by Frederick William Robertson

His wife thought it was a moved conscience, or mere policy and curiosity; she could not tell which.
— from A Red Wallflower by Susan Warner

The extent of these ruins, great arches, portals and columns of marble, porphyry and cut stone overlooking the sea, though half buried by sand dunes, presents conclusive evidence of a former populous and magnificent city.
— from Chit-Chat; Nirvana; The Searchlight by Mathew Joseph Holt

"In testimony of these sentiments, Illinois enacted a 'black code' of most preposterous and cruel severity,—a code that would have been a disgrace to a slave state, and was simply an infamy in a free one.
— from Lincoln, the Politician by T. Aaron Levy

The little church of la Montjoie rejoices in a portion of the sainted king's hand, enclosed in a 14th century reliquary; and the cathedral of Meaux possesses a chalice said to have belonged to him.
— from The Churches of Paris, from Clovis to Charles X by Sophia Beale