[258] "It is true, in regard to this defect, that much may be done by a wife to meliorate a vice of character which is, in some, only the result of never having had their feelings developed.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

At the third toast, it was always the custom for the ladies to withdraw; but my uncle stopped them this time, in spite of the remonstrances of Nora, who said, ‘Oh, pa! do let us go!’
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

It is to be observed, that, in speaking of the resemblance of nude female figures, I speak solely of the body, without concluding from it that they also resemble each other in the distinctive characters of the head, which are particularly marked in each, whether goddess or heroine.
— from Beauty: Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classificatin of Beauty in Woman by Alexander Walker

Facility of intercommunication between the nations has made us all citizens of the world; and an increased sense of the relativity of national and religious ideals has made us catholic of other systems than our own.
— from Materials and Methods of Fiction With an Introduction by Brander Matthews by Clayton Meeker Hamilton

The Vedas, in speaking of the relation of nature to God, make use of the expression that he is the Material as well as the Cause of the universe, "the Clay as well as the Potter."
— from History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition by John William Draper

General Clark Clark, although not the ranking officer, was selected by Governor Boggs as the most fit instrument to carry out his murderous designs; for bad as they were in Missouri, very few commanding officers were yet sufficiently hardened to go all lengths with Boggs in this contemplated inhuman butchery, and expulsion from one of the should-be free and independent states of the Republic of North America, where the Constitution declares, that " every man shall have the privilege of worshiping God according to the dictates of his own conscience ;" and this was all the offense the Saints had been guilty of.
— from History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Volume 3 by Smith, Joseph, Jr.

They had a fine wind, and before the chowder was ready, the Flyaway was in sight of the Reef of Norman's Woe.
— from Little By Little; or, The Cruise of the Flyaway by Oliver Optic

What is said of the rank of New York State?
— from The Boston School Atlas, Embracing a Compendium of Geography by B. Franklin (Benjamin Franklin) Edmands

A dreary shadow of coming desolation,—like the cold, gray mist which wrapped me as I stood on the rocks of Niagara, hung over the future.
— from Ernest Linwood; or, The Inner Life of the Author by Caroline Lee Hentz

I may take this opportunity of mentioning a fact which may interest such of the readers of " Notes and Queries " as are students of natural history.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 74, March 29, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various