This is the first time that we have had a military band, for music is naturally considered out of place when everyone is in mourning and such vast numbers of our soldiers are still suffering horribly; but as this is for their benefit it is considered as an exception.
— from Through Russian Snows: A Story of Napoleon's Retreat from Moscow by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Lady Isabella gave her a look of that supreme happiness which is not considerate of other people’s feelings.
— from Neighbours on the Green by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

They pay little attention to cleanliness; their hair, once plaited, is not combed or opened perhaps for a month; their bodies or cloths are seldom washed; their arms are indeed so encased with ivory that it would be no easy matter to clean them.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 4 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

Now it is not considered out of place to criticise the acts of congress or of legislatures, or the motives and influences that govern and control those bodies in the enactment of laws; yet it is looked upon as almost treasonable to refuse to accept the decisions of courts as good law, or to discuss the motives and influences leading to these decisions.
— from Monopolies and the People by D. C. Cloud

"For, not to deceive oneself, Catholicism is not only that moderate religion that they offer us; it is not composed only of petty cases and formulas; it is not wholly confined to rigid observances, and the toys of old maids, to all that goody-goody business, which spreads itself abroad in the Rue Saint Sulpice; it is far more exalted, far purer, but then we must penetrate its burning zone, and seek in Mysticism, the art, the essence, and the very soul of the Church.
— from En Route by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans

In a great proportion of the townships, which hav been lately settled, there iz no clergyman or other person of superior information, to direct the popular councils and check a rizing opposition.
— from A Collection of Essays and Fugitiv Writings On Moral, Historical, Political, and Literary Subjects by Noah Webster

In no charge, office, or post in connection with the judicial or administrative bodies shall any proof of nobility be required.
— from The Marquis D'Argenson: A Study in Criticism Being the Stanhope Essay: Oxford, 1893 by Arthur Ogle

Presently a gaunt, half-wild boar pig, with his spine arched like the mountains, came sniffing slowly down the hill, pausing frequently to cock his wedge-shaped head aloft and fix a hostile eye on two turkey buzzards that began to swing in narrowing circles over one particular spot on the bank of the creek.
— from The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

The more fundamental economic theory—the more because its bearing on pecuniary and class interests is not close or obvious [Pg 235] —is an admirable organ for the development of the student's power of reasoning.
— from College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College by Paul Klapper