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Change of Pitch Produces Emphasis This is a highly important statement.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein
In like manner all those were restored, who in the preliminary stage of the recent catastrophe had lost their seat in the senate or their civil existence through sentence of the censors or political process, especially through the impeachments raised on the basis of the exceptional laws of 702.
— from The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) by Theodor Mommsen
I will justify the ways of God to man and, through the channel of potent prayer, exorcise this presence and bring peace to your afflicted house.
— from The Grey Room by Eden Phillpotts
In Greece, there being no caste of priests, philosophy embraced those studious minds addicted to a species of inquiry which rejected the poetical form, as well as the poetical spirit.
— from Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Book II by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
Neither confiscation of property, political executions, territorial organizations of States, nor forcible abolition of slavery, should be contemplated for a moment.
— from A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee by John Esten Cooke
"Once you're into the phone computers," one phone phreak ex- tolled, "you have an immense amount of power at your fingertips.
— from Terminal Compromise by Winn Schwartau
Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Physician Extraordinary to the Queen, and Physician in Ordinary to His Royal Highness Prince Albert.
— from Journal in France in 1845 and 1848 with Letters from Italy in 1847 Of Things and Persons Concerning the Church and Education by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies
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