I then received illustration from heaven, from which I perceived how far each point was grounded in right or not; and I saw how industriously they concealed what was unjust, and gave it a semblance of what was just; and how they selected some particular statute which favored their own side of the question, and by cunning reasonings warped the rest to the same side.
— from The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love To Which is Added The Pleasures of Insanity Pertaining To Scortatory Love by Emanuel Swedenborg

They must all be got in, rhyme or no rhyme."
— from Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp by Harriet Beecher Stowe

This system involved a deduction from the first year's gross Irish revenue of nearly two millions.
— from The Framework of Home Rule by Erskine Childers

Yet, in taking this course, he was guilty, in reality, of no offence whatever.
— from The Life and Reign of Edward I. by Robert Benton Seeley

Gladly I rushed out next morning.
— from Brittany by Dorothy Menpes

The loyalty which a citizen owes to a government is dependent upon the extent to which the government is representative of national traditions and is organized in the interest of valid national purposes.
— from The Promise of American Life by Herbert David Croly

Not a star was visible in the sky, but bright spots, like will-o’-the-wisps, moved through the dense gloom in regular order near Lanimen.
— from The Burgomaster's Wife — Complete by Georg Ebers