Five hundred years after the first religious persecution of the drink in Arabia, we find it being persecuted by commercial zealots in the United States.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

We may in escaping B fall into believing other falsehoods, C or D , just as bad as B ; or we may escape B by not believing anything at all, not even A .
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

[5] ; and that is for that we should know our own feebleness and our mischiefs that we are fallen in by sin, to meeken us and make us to dread God and cry for help and grace.
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

I do not understand very well what a bishop's work is, but I am sure it must be good and helpful, and I am glad that my dear friend is brave, and wise, and loving enough to do it.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

Now I shall:— [Enter Executioners, with] a coffin, cords, and a bell Here is a present from your princely brothers; And may it arrive welcome, for it brings Last benefit, last sorrow.
— from The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster

"Now," said old Mr Clare to his wife, when he had read the envelope, "if Angel proposes leaving Rio for a visit home at the end of next month, as he told us that he hoped to do, I think this may hasten his plans; for I believe it to be from his wife."
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

On a review of all that has been said of the effects, as well as the causes of both, it will appear that the sublime and beautiful are built on principles very different, and that their affections are as different: the great has terror for its basis, which, when it is modified, causes that emotion in the mind, which I have called astonishment; the beautiful is founded on mere positive pleasure, and excites in the soul that feeling which is called love.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

My foot is becoming numb.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Dr. Huss desired to be excused from a personal appearance, and was so greatly favoured in Bohemia, that king Winceslaus, the queen, the nobility, and the university, desired the pope to dispense with such an appearance; as also that he would not suffer the kingdom of Bohemia to lie under the accusation of heresy, but permit them to preach the gospel with freedom in their places of worship.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

"Adèle de Flahaut is dying; her father is behaving like a madman, but her mother shows a man's courage.
— from Memoirs of the Duchesse De Dino (Afterwards Duchesse de Talleyrand et de Sagan), 1841-1850 by Dino, Dorothée, duchesse de

And in fact, I began to jump at anything—or nothing.
— from The Brightener by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

“Stand back, Mr Jack,” cried the man, and with one mower-like sweep of his spear-handle he caught the serpent a few inches below its threatening head, and it dropped writhing at once, with its vertebras broken.
— from Jack at Sea: All Work and No Play Made Him a Dull Boy by George Manville Fenn

[28] The kinship of this tough people with the Lowlanders of Scotland, in character as in blood, was never more signally demonstrated than when they decided, in one of the most intense crises of their history, to emulate the example of their Scottish forefathers in binding themselves together by a solemn League and Covenant to resist what they deemed to be a tyrannical encroachment on their liberties and rights.
— from Ulster's Stand For Union by Ronald McNeill

Everybody of education knows that Lucy Locket lost her pocket and that Betty Pringle found it without a penny “in it” (to rhyme with “found it”), but everybody does not know that the aforementioned Lucy Locket had a tune composed for her benefit that has thrilled the hearts of more sons of the young republic when stepping to battle than any other tune, past, present, or to come.
— from Aladdin O'Brien by Gouverneur Morris

And she had followed it blindly—unawares, leading Hugh Renwick into this deadly trap which Goritz had laid.
— from The Secret Witness by George Gibbs

Your future is before you; but no one in the world can make his way unaided.
— from The Lily of the Valley by Honoré de Balzac

“Yes, Saxe found it; but it is very difficult to get to.
— from The Crystal Hunters: A Boy's Adventures in the Higher Alps by George Manville Fenn

Captivating as all this undoubtedly was, and fascinated as I felt in being the lion of London, the courted and sought after by the high, the titled, and the talented of the great city of the universe, yet amidst all the splendor and seduction of that new world, my heart instinctively turned from the glare and brilliancy of gorgeous saloons, from the soft looks and softer voice of beauty, from the words of praise as they fell from the lips of those whose notice was fame itself,—to
— from Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 by Charles James Lever

For Indians bearing the name, formerly from the U. States, see Apaches.
— from The Indian in his Wigwam; Or, Characteristics of the Red Race of America From Original Notes and Manuscripts by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft