Marriage was gradually restored in public estimation to its proper place, not merely as a civil bond or social festival, but as a chief solemnity of the Christian religion.
— from Collections and Recollections by George William Erskine Russell

The damp is affecting my brain; My woes I would gladly recite, In phrases emphatic and plain, Your sympathy could I obtain.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93., October 22, 1887 by Various

The value argument : ideally, the buyer of an article is bound to pay its value, and, as a general rule, if proper economy has been exercised in its production, this must be sufficient to pay a living wage to the men engaged in producing and distributing that article.
— from Consumers and Wage-Earners: The Ethics of Buying Cheap by J. Elliot (John Elliot) Ross

Russell, who had been gradually rising in public estimation, showed the qualities of a true statesman on this occasion by a firm yet conciliatory speech which commanded assent on both sides.
— from The Political History of England - Vol XI From Addington's Administration to the close of William IV.'s Reign (1801-1837) by John Knight Fotheringham

Lamartine grew rapidly in public estimation, because he was a new man.
— from Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 1 July 1848 by Various

While, therefore, we rejoice together at the new bond between New York and Brooklyn, we ought to rejoice the more that it destroys none of the conditions which permit each city to govern itself, but rather urges them to a generous rivalry in perfecting each its own government, recognizing the truth that there is no true liberty without law, and that eternal vigilance, which is the only safeguard of liberty, can best be exercised within limited areas.
— from A History of the City of Brooklyn and Kings County, Volume II. by Stephen M. Ostrander

Since his visitation through the State two years before, in behalf of Solomon Southwick's candidacy for governor, Thurlow Weed had been growing rapidly in political experience.
— from A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 by De Alva Stanwood Alexander

The hall and gallery remain in part; everything else is utterly perished.
— from Through East Anglia in a Motor Car by James Edmund Vincent