This officer had, at his disposal, a national guard of several hundred men, organised by his own orders.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

The voice of the physician, as Professor Max Flesch of Frankfort observes, is more and more heard in the development and new growth of social institutions; he is a natural leaders in such movements, and proposals for reform properly come from him.
— from Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society by Havelock Ellis

It is the single normal way to develop a new generation of strong, healthy, iron men, with at the same time sensitive souls.
— from Beasts, Men and Gods by Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski

Day and night gangs of soldiers were seen stripping league after league of copper telegraph wires from their poles.
— from The Children's Story of the War Volume 4 (of 10) The Story of the Year 1915 by Edward Parrott

We recognize this truth in our greetings; we propitiate the dim and nameless gods of storm and sky; we reverence their might, their paths above our knowing.
— from Copper Streak Trail by Eugene Manlove Rhodes

"That each ship's boats should be kept together, by towing each other, which will keep the people of each ship collected; and the boats will be in six divisions, and nearly get on shore at the same moment.
— from The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1 by James Harrison

You will read the whole of his Diary and not get one smile from his severe countenance.
— from Leaves in the Wind by A. G. (Alfred George) Gardiner

On the next day a new group of subscribers to whom the news had been retailed milled about the doors of the temporary Temple for a chance to register and donate their investments.
— from Lady Luck by Hugh Wiley