This habit not only gives the speaker an amateurish appearance but if the head is hung forward the voice will be directed towards the ground instead of floating out over the audience.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

But when that grip is once firmly fix'd, leaving no hope or chance at all, the surgeon abandons the patient.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

Go into our fields and see whites and blacks working side by side.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

Then Helga the fair prayed more gently, and more earnestly, than she had ever prayed in her life before, that she might be permitted to gaze, if only for a single moment, at the glory and brightness of the heavenly kingdom.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

The most glaring instances of failure on the part of England to do this were when De Grasse was permitted to get out unopposed in March, 1781; for an English fleet of superior force had sailed from Portsmouth nine days before him, but was delayed
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

Our glory is our freedom, We lord it o'er the sea; We are the sons of freedom, We are free.
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

It is to be traced to the gradual increase of faith in the honor of a hostage if the case calling for his surrender should arrive, and to the consequent relaxation of actual imprisonment.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

A groove is often formed near the end of the handle, or the end is raised into a cylindrical roll on each side, and this roll again is sometimes perforated with a hole.
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

As long as men are prejudiced, they will probably be religious, and certainly as long as they are religious they will be prejudiced, and every religionist who imagines the next world infinitely more important than this, and who imagines that he gets his orders from God instead of from his own reason, or from his fellow-citizens, and who thinks that he should do something for the glory of God instead of for the benefit of his fellow-citizens —just as long as they believe these things, just so long their prejudices will control their votes.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume VIII. Interviews by Robert Green Ingersoll

Green plush chairs stood against the wall; there was a heavy carved book-case, with glass doors, and a general impression of faded sofa covers, large spaces of pale green, and baskets with pieces of wool-work dropping out of them.
— from The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf

Aware of the great importance of freeing the passage at a time when the retiring troops might be pressed by the enemy, I at once set to work to remedy the disorder that prevailed.
— from A Week at Waterloo in 1815 Lady De Lancey's Narrative: Being an Account of How She Nursed Her Husband, Colonel Sir William Howe De Lancey, Quartermaster-General of the Army, Mortally Wounded in the Great Battle by De Lancey, Magdalene, Lady

The gospel, instead of flattering, tells him that in his present state he is incapable of performing its duties or of relishing its joys; that he must be transformed, or he cannot enter into the kingdom of God; and what it requires it produces; hence all is order and harmony.
— from The Sheepfold and the Common; Or, Within and Without. Vol. 1 (of 2) by Timothy East

while the earth still wore its gilding in the fire of the sun, while the evening-fountain still blazed up like a torch, when in a great oak-tree of the garden, in which motley glass globes had been grafted instead of fruit, twenty red suns sparkled out of the leaves,–then a warmed cloud melted asunder and came all down in drops into the fire of evening and on the gleaming water-column....
— from Hesperus; or, Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography. Vol. II. by Jean Paul

If I fail to return the stated answer to a compliment; if I am disconcerted by unexpected raillery; if I blush when I am discovered gazing on a beauty, or hesitate when I find myself embarrassed in an argument; if I am unwilling to talk of what I do not understand, or timorous in undertaking offices which I cannot gracefully perform; if I suffer a more lively tatler to recount the casualties of a game, or a nimbler fop to pick up a fan, I am censured between pity and contempt, as a wretch doomed to grovel in obscurity for want of assurance.
— from The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II by Samuel Johnson

The great injury of "Fall-feeding" is not usually so much the loss of the grass-covering from the field, as the poaching of the soil and destruction of the roots by treading.
— from Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles by Henry F. (Henry Flagg) French

And so (we think) the need of attachment must also be met by full recognition of it, and the granting of it expression within all reasonable limits; by the dissemination of a good ideal of friendship and the enlistment of it on the side of manliness and temperance.
— from The Intermediate Sex: A Study of Some Transitional Types of Men and Women by Edward Carpenter

The best restaurants are often in the hands of Germans, Italians, or Frenchmen.
— from The Land of Contrasts: A Briton's View of His American Kin by James F. (James Fullarton) Muirhead

As soon as the girls in our family were old enough they were sent North to school to finish their education, and the boys were sent to Northern colleges.
— from Old Plantation Days: Being Recollections of Southern Life Before the Civil War by N. B. (Nancy Bostick) De Saussure