Cythna tells Laon Darkness and death, if death be true, must be Dearer than life and hope if unenjoyed with thee.
— from The Radicalism of Shelley and Its Sources by Daniel J. MacDonald

A man is scarcely justified in blowing his trumpet when he has previously so cowed his antagonist by beating his drum and deluding its dull brains with his fictitious thunder.
— from Myth-Land by F. Edward (Frederick Edward) Hulme

The next morning, the mother and her three youngest daughters, all draped in deepest black, arrived at Rose Hill prepared to find fault with everything which savored at all of the "horrid country."
— from Dora Deane; Or, The East India Uncle by Mary Jane Holmes

There was mining everywhere along that grand road, with all its destruction and devastation, its digging, burrowing, gulching, and sluicing; and up all along the seemingly inaccessible heights were holes with their roofs log supported, in which solitary and patient men were selling their lives for treasure.
— from A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird

My presentation will undoubtedly have many defects and deficiencies in details, but it will perhaps thereby gain in originality of treatment.
— from The Monist, Vol. 1, 1890-1891 by Various

Just as we are unable to fix the moment at which [255] night passes into dawn, and dawn into day; but yet the dawn of morning, and the twilight of evening are themselves the lines which broadly separate between the day and the night, lying respectively at the extremities of each.
— from Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, Vol. 3 of 3 I. Agorè: Polities of the Homeric Age. II. Ilios: Trojans and Greeks Compared. III. Thalassa: The Outer Geography. IV. Aoidos: Some Points of the Poetry of Homer. by W. E. (William Ewart) Gladstone

No other deities are described in detail by Prescott, but he says that every household had its "penates," or household gods.
— from Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities in Central and Western Asia, Europe, and Elsewhere, Before the Christian Era. Showing Their Relations to Religious Customs as They Now Exist. by Thomas Inman

These two differences are differences in degree, but they do not necessarily indicate differences in nature.
— from Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, November 1898 Volume 54, November 1898 by Various

His duties are described in detail by the king's regulations, but may be summed up as consisting of seeing that the charges are in order, pointing out any informalities or defects in the charges or in the constitution of the court, seeing that any witness required by prosecutor or prisoner is summoned, keeping the minutes of the proceedings, advising on matters of law which arise at any time after the warrant for the court-martial is issued, drawing up the findings and sentence, and forwarding the minutes when completed to the admiralty.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

Since, then, this church, which was once a praise in the earth, is now brought to a most deplorable and daily increasing desolation by the means of these ceremonies, which have been both the sparkles to kindle, and the bellows to blow up, the consuming fire of intestine dissensions among us, it concerneth all her children, not only to cry out
— from The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by George Gillespie