Still we hurry on, with eight men at the wheel—rocks appear like snags in the middle of the stream—we dash straight down upon rocky islets, strewn with the wrecks of rafts; but a turn of the wheel, and we rush by them in safety at a speed ('tis said) of thirty miles an hour, till a ragged ledge of rock stretches across the whirling stream.
— from The Englishwoman in America by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird

A development of a finer ability of discernment under right influence should lead the common citizen to see through these various sophistries practiced by corporate greed, and should enable him by means of the ballot to “blaze a better way.”
— from A Class Room Logic Deductive and Inductive, with Special Application to the Science and Art of Teaching by George Hastings McNair

Through ages in which the most arrogant and elaborate ideals of power and civilization held otherwise undisputed sway, the ideal of the perfect and healthy peasant did undoubtedly represent in some shape or form the conception that there was a dignity in simplicity and a dignity in labour.
— from The Defendant by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

If André Mareuil had not laid down his humorous pen to become a Commissioner of Police, if he were still writing his Art de rompre instead of drawing up regulations, I should submit the case to him.
— from The Blue Duchess by Paul Bourget

To these documents, drawn up respectively in sixty-three, and in ninety articles, they were required, within five days' time, without the assistance of an advocate, and without consultation with any human being, to deliver a written answer, on pain, as before, of being proceeded against and condemned by default.
— from The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-84) by John Lothrop Motley

[148] The style of this deeply undercut relief is so marked that it imprints itself upon the memory.
— from Amurath to Amurath by Gertrude Lowthian Bell

The deputy, upon recognizing Ike, swung down from his horse, doffed his hat to Grace, and turned to Mr. Fairweather.
— from Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders on the Old Apache Trail by Josephine Chase

That the rapid depreciation of the paper currency, by which the resources for carrying on the war were dried up, rendered indispensable some grand effort to bring it to a speedy termination.
— from The Life of George Washington: A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Editions by John Marshall