Upon representation, Lord Tame overruled this indecent stretch of power, and granted her perfect safety while under his custody.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

[19] Abraham-men be those that fayn themselves to have beene mad, and have bene kept either in Bethelem, or in some other pryson a good time.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

21 ABRAHAM-MEN , be those that fayn themselves to have beene mad, and have bene kept either in Bethelem, or in some other pryson a good time.
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

The sea, which Severus commanded with a powerful fleet, secured him an inexhaustible supply of provisions, and gave a free entrance to the legions, which, on the return of spring, would advance to his assistance from Illyricum and the East.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

The district initials for every important street or place are given in the street list.
— from Foot-prints of a letter carrier; or, a history of the world's correspondece by James Rees

This fact indicated shiftings of power, as General Tuan had never supported the President in his imperialist ambitions.
— from An American Diplomat in China by Paul S. (Paul Samuel) Reinsch

Those who declare that they have served their country in her greatest trouble, and lived in splendid houses and in service of princes and great companies and the like on a yearly salary of 4000 florins, may not approve these maxims."
— from Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War, 1613-15 by John Lothrop Motley

He declared he came disinterestedly to offer himself as a sacrifice to save her, the King, and her family from the horrors then threatening their lives, from the violence of an outrageous mob of regicides; he called God to witness that he was actuated by no other wish than to atone for his error, and die in their defence; he looked for no reward beyond the King's forgiveness of his having joined the Orleans faction; he never had any view in joining that faction but that of aiding the Duke, for the good of his country, in the reform of ministerial abuses, and strengthening the royal authority by the salutary laws of the National Assembly; but he no sooner discovered that impure schemes of personal aggrandisement gave the real impulse to these pretended reformers than he forsook their unholy course.
— from Memoirs of the Courts of Louis XV and XVI. — Volume 6 Being secret memoirs of Madame Du Hausset, lady's maid to Madame de Pompadour, and of the Princess Lamballe by Mme. Du Hausset

There was an innate sense of power, a grand dramatic instinct, a keen sense of everything beautiful, noble and great.
— from A Mad Love by Charlotte M. Brame

The claims of the system may be summed up as follows: compared with other systems it is less expensive; more easily understood, remembered, and used; practical rather than theoretical; brief and familiar in its nomenclature; best for arranging pamphlets, sale duplicates, and notes, and for indexing; susceptible of partial and gradual adoption without confusion; more convenient in keeping statistics and checks for books off the shelves; the most satisfactory adaptation of the card catalog principle to the shelves.
— from A Library Primer by John Cotton Dana

A feeling of sweet peace filled the righteous, which expressed itself in songs of praise and gladness.
— from Added Upon A Story by Nephi Anderson

God, in his character, sweeps over the infinite spaces of principle and gathers in the infinite perfections of all characteristics of good.
— from Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness. by G. S. (George Sumner) Weaver

He even went so far as to go outside of the city, in search of purity and goodness to be sacrificed in the fires of his degenerate passions.
— from The Vice Bondage of a Great City; or, the Wickedest City in the World by Robert O. Harland