Douglass had been describing the wrongs of the Negro race and as he proceeded he grew more and more excited and finally ended by saying that they had no hope of justice from the whites, no possible hope except in their own right arms.
— from Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

As a Jewish writer has expressed it: ... the oddest rabbinical conceits are elaborated through many volumes with the finest dialectic, and the most absurd questions are discussed with the highest efforts of intellectual power; for example, how many white hairs may a red cow have, and yet remain a red cow; what sort of scabs require this or that purification; whether a louse or a flea may be killed on the Sabbath--the first being allowed, while the second is a deadly sin; whether the slaughter of an animal ought to be executed at the neck or the tail; whether the high priest put on his shirt or his hose first; whether the Jabam , that is, the brother of a man who died childless, being required by law to marry the widow, is relieved from his obligation if he falls off a roof and sticks in the mire.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

The Emperor, Cowley said, never mentioned our troops or commanders to him except in terms of respect and with expressions of his admiration, but he knew that to others he spoke in a very different tone, and said that our army was commanded by an old woman.
— from The Greville Memoirs, Part 3 (of 3), Volume 1 (of 2) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1852 to 1860 by Charles Greville

But could he ever come to renounce his New York ambitions for humdrum existence in the old river town of Keokuk?
— from The Treasure of Hidden Valley by Willis George Emerson

Women cannot be expected to go behind the motives of that patriot who saves his country and his election in times of revolution.
— from Democracy, an American novel by Henry Adams

The offers and the arguments of the Spaniard and the renegade were powerless with the blunt captain, and notwithstanding "divers other traitorous alledgements by Sir William for his most vile facts," as Henchman expressed it, that officer remained in poverty and captivity until such time as he could be exchanged.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

On Wednesday, September 28th, Emperor Frederic made his entry into the old Roman city on the dancing Moselle.
— from Charles the Bold, Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477 by Ruth Putnam

Her words recalled to Bobby unavoidably his experience in the old room.
— from The Abandoned Room by Wadsworth Camp

Then, stiffening himself, he emerged into the open, rifle in hand, and advanced with quick martial strides across the parade ground.
— from Tom Willoughby's Scouts: A Story of the War in German East Africa by Herbert Strang

Horace was young, and weary of the suspense that he had endured in the other room.
— from The New Magdalen by Wilkie Collins