The negro was a man of immense muscular power, like not a few of his race, and, like most of them, not easily provoked, inheriting not a little of their hard-learned long-suffering.
— from Sir Gibbie by George MacDonald

They lost it because the English had the better position in North America; because the English population in North America largely outnumbered the French; because, when the crisis came, the English made their main effort in North America, whereas the French devoted their resources and their energies primarily to continental war in Europe; and lastly, because the English secured command of the sea, and in consequence command of the St. Lawrence also.
— from A Historical Geography of the British Colonies, Vol. V Canada—Part I, Historical by Lucas, Charles Prestwood, Sir

Sicut oculus corporis etiam plenissime sanus, nisi candore lucis adiutus non potest cernere, sic et homo etiam perfectissime iustificatus, nisi aeternae luce iustitiae divinitus adiuvetur, recte non potest vivere. ”
— from Grace, Actual and Habitual: A Dogmatic Treatise by Joseph Pohle

Each part is numbered and lettered and as they are shaped perfectly all that is necessary is to place them in position, bolt them, and finally fasten them with rivets."
— from History of the World War: An Authentic Narrative of the World's Greatest War by Richard Joseph Beamish

The many empty perforations in nose and lips and ears told of decorative passions long since dead.
— from A Son Of The Sun by Jack London

Grimaldi, almost exactly at the east point, is nearly as large as Schickard.
— from Astronomy of To-day: A Popular Introduction in Non-Technical Language by Cecil Goodrich Julius Dolmage