The volume in which "The Bay of Seven Islands" was published was dedicated to the late Edwin Percy Whipple, to whom more than to any other person I was indebted for public recognition as one worthy of a place in American literature, at a time when it required a great degree of courage to urge such a claim for a pro-scribed abolitionist.
— from Bay of Seven Islands, and other poems Part 7 From Volume I of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier by John Greenleaf Whittier

SIR GORDON DRUMMOND Of course the United States did not purpose leaving the frontier of Niagara because Drummond had burnt the forts.
— from Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom by Agnes C. Laut

The fact that in nearly every case those who were rescued from the flood immediately offered piacular sacrifices suggests the recognition in all human history of still another fundamental doctrine of Christianity, the universal sense of sin.
— from Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 by Frank F. (Frank Field) Ellinwood

England and Germany appeared to be desirous of conciliating the United States.
— from The New Nation by Frederic L. (Frederic Logan) Paxson

It requires a high degree of culture to use slang with elegance and effect; and we are yet very far from the Greek attainment.
— from Backlog Studies by Charles Dudley Warner

In the de Oratore Cicero tells us several interesting things about him,—how he laid the proper emphasis on the right words, reserving his gesticulation until he came to them; and how he was never so much admired when acting with a mask on, because the expression of his face was so full of meaning[520].
— from Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero by W. Warde (William Warde) Fowler

After nightfall, lighted only by flickering oil lamps, they were the haunt of footpads who terrorized the watchmen, and of bands of roistering young blades who headed up women in barrels and rolled them down hill for diversion, or chased the unwary stranger into a corner and made him dance by pricking him with their sword points.
— from The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers by Steele, Richard, Sir