Of these different accounts the reader is left to take his choice.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

" I am glad to add, however, that at the present time the disposition to vote against the white man merely because he is white is largely disappearing, and the race is learning to vote from principle, for what the voter considers to be for the best interests of both races.
— from Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington

This sad loss only fired the hearts of the soldiers to more desperate determination, and they rushed into line upon the run, burning to avenge their beloved leader.
— from Three Years in the Sixth Corps A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865 by George T. (George Thomas) Stevens

This latter proposition was expressed in the compromise known as the Bland Bill, the "Act to authorise the Page 280 [Pg 280] coinage of the standard silver dollar, and to restore its legal tender character, 28th February 1878."
— from The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 by William Arthur Shaw

She marched discreetly along the roads in long reins; she champed detested mouthfuls of rusty mouthing bit in the process described by Johnny Connolly as "getting her neck broke"; she trotted for treadmill half-hours in the lunge; and during and in spite of all these penances, she fattened up and thickened out until that great authority, Mr. Alexander, pronounced it would be a sin not to send her up to the Dublin Horse Show, as she was just the mare to catch an English dealer's eye.
— from All on the Irish Shore: Irish Sketches by E. Oe. (Edith Oenone) Somerville

[1] Second of two lectures delivered at the Royal Institution, London, on 17th April, 1886.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 586, March 26, 1887 by Various

By W. Crookes, F.R.S., V.P.C.S., delivered at the Royal Institution, London, on Friday, February 18th, 1887.
— from The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 1 of 4 by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky

I don't have to remind you that the military caste lost its chance of control when war disappeared, and that religion is losing ground every day.
— from This Crowded Earth by Robert Bloch

Such were the friendships of Wordsworth and Coleridge, and of Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy, also that recorded in Landor's shaken lines: Friends!
— from The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years by Elizabeth Atkins