[Pg ii.250] No, there were not two; Clement VIII's abdication had put an end to the schism; the great rift in the Church had been closed for thirteen years and all Christian nations recognized the Pope of Rome; even France who had become resigned to the disappearance of her Avignon popes.
— from The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 by Anatole France

By the pattern of the great roses in the carpet he measured it.
— from Three John Silence Stories by Algernon Blackwood

When the woman’s suffrage bill was passed in 1895 the Prime Minister, the Minister of Public Instruction, and the Lord Mayor gave Mrs. Lee an impressive reception in the town hall; they thanked her for the untiring efforts which she had devoted to the cause, and the Prime Minister said, “Mrs. Lee is the originator of the greatest reforms in the constitutional history of Australia.”
— from The Modern Woman's Rights Movement: A Historical Survey by Käthe Schirmacher

A highly respectable English gentleman residing in this country has often remarked that nothing filled him with such utter astonishment as our prejudice with regard to color.
— from An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans by Lydia Maria Child

This garish room in the court house at Montesano was the scene of the attempted "judicial murder" that followed the lynching.
— from The Centralia Conspiracy by Ralph Chaplin

Instead of, as he had feared, growing rusty in the country, he had time for making good much that he had neglected.
— from Felix Lanzberg's Expiation by Ossip Schubin

His success was founded on a well-groomed person, a supercilious manner, the judicious communication of any good racing information that came his way, and—indomitable cheek.
— from Bohemian Days in Fleet Street by William Mackay