When the statesman presided at great temperance meetings, he placed Washington in the front rank of impressive dignitaries that gave tone to the occasion and pomp to the platform.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

If I imagine the thunder of Niagara, the voice of Lucca, the explosion of a thousand cartridges, etc., or anything else that I have not heard, my imagination is certainly incorrect, but it will differ from reality only in degree.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

Anger, Indignation .—These states of the mind differ from rage only in degree, and there is no marked distinction in their characteristic signs.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

The Grand Cyrus , by Magdeleine de Scudéri, was the most famous of the French Romances of its day.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

“They are gold, and there is an inscription on each; that means a fancy reward, or I don’t know human feminine nature.
— from McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 3, August, 1893 by Various

Then, above the din of the gunfire and curses of the deputies, the final verse of "Hold the Fort" rang out in defiance of industrial tyranny, and with the termination of the words "Cheer, my comrades, cheer!"
— from The Everett Massacre: A history of the class struggle in the lumber industry by Walker C. Smith

The credentials furnished by these young men are very satisfactory, and they enter upon the field with the full realization of its difficulties and even dangers, and yet, cheerfully trusting themselves to the hand of God, are ready to go forward with undaunted faith.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 44, No. 06, June, 1890 by Various

Musing and dreaming, the free ranging of imagination, disporting itself at its own sweet will along the meandering pathways of association, demand less exertion, and will therefore be widely preferred to the hard labour of observation and intelligent judgment.
— from Degeneration by Max Simon Nordau

A people may be silent for long years, for ages, but at the first rays of its dawning future it will sing like the sphinx of Egypt.
— from Russia: Its People and Its Literature by Pardo Bazán, Emilia, condesa de

The emigration and forfeiture of the nobles and clergy had deprived the country at once of those higher classes, that right-hand file, who are bred up to hold their lives light if called on to lay them down for religion, or in defence of the rights of their country, or the principles of their own honour or conscience.
— from Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume I. by Walter Scott

Glacier Bay, which the excursion steamers visit on their summer trips, has a great number of these frozen rivers of ice debouching into it; and its clear, quiet waters, reflecting the Alpine scenery of its shores, are ruffled only by the breaking of the icebergs from the terminal fronts of the glacier, that send waves across its whole breadth, and with a noise like the firing of a sea-coast cannon.
— from Wonderland; or, Alaska and the Inside Passage With a Description of the Country Traversed by the Northern Pacific Railroad by John Hyde

"I should think it would be the nicest to consult together, without any fixed rule." "Oh, I daresay it will be all right," said Rosy, thinking to herself that, as she was older than her sister, it would be only fair for her generally to have the first choice.
— from The Man with the Pan-Pipes, and Other Stories by Mrs. Molesworth

A discussion might have led to further revelations of intimate details of the lady’s toilet.
— from Lalage's Lovers by George A. Birmingham

I was a wretch, and like a wretch without a mother's sympathy, found relief only in drinks—"
— from Justice in the By-Ways, a Tale of Life by F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams