Both are frequently and voluminously mentioned in the Saddharma Pundarika, 22 in which the good law is made plain by flowers of rhetoric, and of which we shall have occasion frequently to speak.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

"The good law is made plain by flowers of rhetoric."
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

I knew that we should either go to the bottom together, or that she would be the making of me; and I never had two days of foul weather all the time I was at sea in her; and after taking privateers enough to be very entertaining, I had the good luck in my passage home the next autumn, to fall in with the very French frigate I wanted.
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen

And in the prosecution of this self-chosen task over a long term of years, amid many difficulties, the greatest ridicule, the most impudent misrepresentation, the most savage abuse that every white-livered critic could think of, he did not once swerve from the view he expressed in "Le Gaulois" about the time when he was signing his contract with Lacroix: "If I kept a school of morals I would hasten to place 'Madame Bovary' or 'Germinie Lacerteux' in my pupils' hands, convinced as I am that only truth can instruct and fortify generous souls."
— from Émile Zola, Novelist and Reformer: An Account of His Life & Work by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly

—Nor can it well be disputed, that a gross luxury is more pernicious than an elegant one; for the former consumes the necessaries of life wantonly, while the latter maintains numerous hands in rendering things valuable by the workmanship which are little so in themselves.
— from A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Complete Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners by Charlotte Biggs

Darkeye also contributed her share to the general supplies, in the shape of several large birch-baskets full of gooseberries, cranberries, juniper-berries, rasps, and other wild berries, which, she said, grew luxuriantly in many places.
— from The Pioneers by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

She is a noble brave pure woman, who will enable me to fight the battle of life, and do what good lies in my power.
— from The Gates of Dawn by Fergus Hume

There is no lack of churches; we see their tapering steeples and deep gable roofs rising above the general level in many places, and there is a Little Bethel down by the water’s side on the Vorsetzen, for the sailors.
— from A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France by William Duthie

He shows no interest in the processes of enquiry,—in tracing the operation of great laws in manifold phenomena,—in investigating one obscure subject after another, with the confident assurance that every discovery [pg 204] is a step towards the light and the ultimate revelation of the whole mystery.
— from The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by W. Y. (William Young) Sellar

GENETIC LOADS IN MENDELIAN POPULATIONS.
— from Motion Pictures 1960-1969: Catalog of Copyright Entries by Library of Congress. Copyright Office