If the traveller has stayed in the same ship all the way from London, he has, by the time he arrives at Colombo, been 30 days en voyage and navigated a distance of 6,700 miles.
— from Ocean Steamships A popular account of their construction, development, management and appliances by A. E. (Albert Edward) Seaton

The man laid his great hand tenderly on Ivanka’s head, while he was speaking in his deep earnest voice; and Nicholas, who was well aware of the truth of his remarks about the Cossacks and the waggon-drivers of the army, expressed such genuine feeling and regret for the sufferings with which the household had been visited, that Petroff was somewhat appeased.
— from In the Track of the Troops by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

And to show that Calvin did not consider the voluntary acts of a depraved sinner as proof of free will, he says, “Man has not an equally free election of good and evil , and can only be said to have free will, because he does evil voluntarily, and not by constraint;” and this he ironically calls “egregious liberty indeed!
— from Calvinistic Controversy Embracing a Sermon on Predestination and Election and Several Numbers, Formally Published in the Christian Advocate and Journal. by Wilbur Fisk

Io dico a voi che siete innamorate, Che se beltate a voi Fu data, e virtù a noi, Ed a costui di due potere un fare, Voi non dovreste amare, Ma coprir quanto di beltà vi è dato, Poichè non è virtù, ch'era suo segno.
— from Renaissance in Italy, Volume 4 (of 7) Italian Literature, Part 1 by John Addington Symonds