The profits of "protection" go altogether to a few score select persons—who, by favors of Congress, State legislatures, the banks, and other special advantages, are forming a vulgar aristocracy, full as bad as anything in the British or European castes, of blood, or the dynasties there of the past.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

When both the women were seated in the carriage, a sudden embarrassment came over both of them.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Lord Granville had not agreed, nor had he at that time the least intention of agreeing, to the appearance of English counsel on behalf of the prisoners.
— from Secret History of the English Occupation of Egypt Being a Personal Narrative of Events by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

Its principal objects were to relieve those trustees who were desirous to close, from liability with regard to the accounts of depositors who had not applied for repayment of their money, or for certificates to enable them to transfer their deposits to Post Office Banks, and also to make the transfer of the accounts of minors compulsory on the authorities of either class of banks on the application of the proper parties concerned.
— from A History of Banks for Savings in Great Britain and Ireland by William Lewins

I warrant me, John's prickers had been sorely pressed by the English captain of Bewcastle, or the lances of the Wardenrie."
— from Bothwell; or, The Days of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume 2 (of 3) by James Grant

Of the early cathedrals of Bourges only the core of the present crypt remains.
— from How France Built Her Cathedrals: A Study in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries by Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly

There were even cases of boys of twelve years old having been sent to the galleys for life, because of having accompanied their parents to "the Preaching."
— from The Huguenots in France by Samuel Smiles

Being the first piece work started in the works, it excited considerable opposition, both on the part of the workmen and of several of the leading men in the town, their opposition being based mainly on the old fallacy that if piece work proved successful a great many men would be thrown out of work, and that thereby not only the workmen but the whole town would suffer.
— from Shop Management by Frederick Winslow Taylor

The adventurous traveller goes no farther inland than Tobermory on the east coast, or Bunessan on the west.
— from Our Journey to the Hebrides by Joseph Pennell

At the period when Emerson reached manhood, Unitarianism was the dominating form of belief in the more highly educated classes of both of the two great New England centres, the town of Boston and the University at Cambridge.
— from Ralph Waldo Emerson by Oliver Wendell Holmes

The foundation-stone was laid, as an inscription says, 19th September, 1885, “by Mrs. Emma Cave, on behalf of the 144,000.
— from The Dover Road: Annals of an Ancient Turnpike by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper

At the same time that America thus flung down her gauntlet to Europe, Canning, on behalf of the British Ministry, proposed to inform the allied Cabinets of England's intention to accredit envoys to the Canning's part South American republics.
— from A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year. Volume 2 (of 3) by Edwin Emerson