The French has been “taken from” till it has nothing more to give; the Newgate Calendar no longer affords materials; for an entire dramatic edition of it might be collected (a valuable hint this for the Syncretic Society, that desperate association for producing un-actable dramas)—the very air is exhausted in a theatrical sense; for “life in the clouds” has been long voted “law;” whilst the play-writing craft have already robbed the regions below of every spark of poetic fire; devils are decidedly out of date.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 7, 1841 by Various

They compared their own land and nation, mediaeval in spirit and backward in resources, and their people untrained as children, with the modern power, the restless ambition, the stern purpose, the intense life of the western nations, with their mighty fleets and armaments, their inventions and machinery, their economic and social theories and forces, their provision for the poor, the sick, and the aged, the peerless family life in the Christian home.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

The high rates of passage and the price charged for land in these colonies have together acted as prohibitory measures to new settlers going thither.
— from Under the Southern Cross Or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands by Maturin Murray Ballou

Those who would have been enemies were suddenly converted into warm friends, and the desperadoes, who would have torn their former masters, or any of their race, limb from limb, if they could have got hold of them, left our adventurers undisturbed in their bivouac, after wishing them a prosperous journey.
— from Black Ivory by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

In those times of tribulation Joe felt that they could be of mutual help and comfort if they could bring themselves to 58 speak, for he suffered also the pangs of imprisonment and the longings for liberty in that cruel house of bondage.
— from The Bondboy by George W. (George Washington) Ogden

For ten years, the powers that stand for law in this country have been marking time behind the firing line; while the other fellow got away with the goods .
— from The Freebooters of the Wilderness by Agnes C. Laut

The tail is counted necessary to the agility of a greyhound; and one method of disqualifying a dog, according to the forest laws, is to cut his tail, or make him a curtail .
— from Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies by Samuel Johnson

“Not at all,” said Meagher, “the people those days were in a mood of mind to tear me limb from limb if they caught hold of me.”
— from Rossa's Recollections, 1838 to 1898 Childhood, boyhood, manhood; customs, habits and manners of the Irish people; Erinach and Sassenach; Catholic and protestant; Englishman and Irishman; English religion; Irish plunder; social life and prison life; the Fenian movement; Travels in Ireland, England, Scotland and America by Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa

Suppose that, through making better laws, men arrive gradually at the condition of the Norwegian peasantry, or at an organization similar to that existing in the agricultural cantons of Switzerland; that is to say, that each family living in the country has a plot of ground to cultivate and a house to live in: in this case every one is allowed to enjoy the full fruit of his labor, and receives reward in proportion to his activity and industry, which is certainly the very ideal of justice— cuique suum .
— from Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, June 1885 by Various

As Jack Tier had no taste for “licks in the chops,” he did not follow Josh’s advice.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXX, No. 2, February 1847 by Various

It was not that you had yielded to the strong tide of youthful blood, and had fallen a victim to fleshly lusts; in that case, however sad, your enlightened conscience would have spoken loudly, and you would have found your way back to the blood which cleanseth us from all sin, to humble confession and self- abasement, to forgiveness and to recommunion with God.
— from Father and Son: A Study of Two Temperaments by Edmund Gosse