Leaving the rest to the sentimentalists, we present freedom as sufficient in its scientific aspect, cold as ice, reasoning, deductive, clear and passionless as crystal.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

For the guardians, having harangued openly in the forum among persons of their own faction, on the injustice of the decree, collected a party and carry off the girl from her mother's house: against whom a body of nobles having arisen more incensed than before, attends the young man rendered furious by the outrage.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

Incessantly he travelled through the two Conferences, speaking on Christian education, and speaking at District Conferences, at protracted and camp-meetings.
— from History of Randolph-Macon College, Virginia The Oldest Incorporated Methodist College in America by Richard Irby

Northward the granitic chain of the Silla de Caracas and Porto Cabello are separated from the Llanos by a screen of mountains that are schistose between Villa de Cura and Parapara, and calcareous between the Bergantin and Caripe.
— from Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 by Alexander von Humboldt

But the inhabitants took care to keep away these sounds as much as possible; they cowered in dark cellars, and prayed and cursed, and played mora , and helped to make each other uncomfortable by the contagion of an abject poltroonery.
— from Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 4, April, 1886 by Various

This armed force, when augmented by recruits from detective agencies and employment agencies, as seems to be the general practice during industrial disputes, constitutes a private army clothed with a degree of authority which should be exercised only by public officials; these armed bodies, usurping the supreme functions of the state and oftentimes encroaching on the rights of citizens, are a distinct menace to public welfare."
— from The Everett Massacre: A history of the class struggle in the lumber industry by Walker C. Smith

He followed the solemnity up by delivering calmly and ponderously a connected discourse, which astonished them by its length and purport.
— from Hard Cash by Charles Reade

If it were possible to create the same interest, or delineate character and passion as completely, by brief and consequently imperfect sketches of a whole lifetime, as it is by a minute and glowing representation of its most eventful period, much might be advanced with justice in favour of the Romantic school of the drama.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 by Various

In the year 1654 she abdicated the throne, became a devout Catholic and passed a considerable part of her remaining years in Rome, 134 residing at first in the Palazzo Farnese, and later in the Palazzo Riario, bringing together in the latter place of residence a large collection of books and objects of art.
— from Terrestrial and Celestial Globes Volume 2 Their History and Construction Including a Consideration of their Value as Aids in the Study of Geography and Astronomy by Edward Luther Stevenson

It is a message that deeply concerns all people, and calls for their most candid and sincere investigation.
— from An Interesting Account of Several Remarkable Visions And of the Late Discovery of Ancient American Records by Orson Pratt