He insisted that each question should be thoroughly fought out by his subordinates, sending it, if necessary, back and back, till every disputed point was absolutely disposed of, before he allowed himself to express his own views; nor did he commit himself to a line of action until the chances had been exhausted of his having to alter it, in consequence of new evidence coming to light.
— from Rulers of India: The Earl of Mayo by William Wilson Hunter

By the bull Reversurus of 1867 Pius IX. claimed the right of nominating the patriarchs of all united churches of the East, of confirming bishops chosen by these patriarchs, in cases of necessity even choosing these himself, and deciding all appeals regarding church property.
— from Church History, Volume 3 (of 3) by J. H. (Johann Heinrich) Kurtz

Long after Gothic cathedral building had ceased, the cabinetmakers of northern Europe continued to carve their delicate window tracery upon the panels of chests and buffets and to copy the moldings of pier and mullion.
— from The Mentor: Furniture and its Makers, Vol. 1, Num. 30, Serial No. 30 by Charles R. (Charles Russell) Richards

It is also a compliment of no equivocal character to a portion of the members of this Chamber.
— from Thirty Years' View (Vol. 2 of 2) or, A History of the Working of the American Government for Thirty Years, from 1820 to 1850 by Thomas Hart Benton

In Prosecution of which Voyage, being on the Coast of New England , the said John Dean , without any Provocation, came to this Deponent and knock'd him down after a very barbarous and inhumane manner, and between Eight and Nine of the Clock at Night of the same Day, the said Ship Nottingham was run on Shore on the Coast of New England , (contrary to the Advice of this Deponent) where she, with the chiefest Part of her Cargo, was utterly lost.
— from A True Account of the Voyage of the Nottingham-Galley of London, John Dean Commander, from the River Thames to New-England by White, George, sailor on the Nottingham galley

Mr. E.A. Freeman, however, puts it more truthfully in saying: "The circumstances of New England called the primitive assembly (that is, the Homeric agora, Athenian ekklesia, Roman comitia, Swiss landesgemeinde, English folk-moot) again into being, when in the older England it was well-nigh forgotten.
— from The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 5, May, 1884 by Various