The surface of diplomacy, those activities which get written down in the memoirs of comfortably aging statesmen, those coups and treaties which are given high-sounding fame as if they really were important—that is incomparable with the diplomacy of Judah, and its matchless enginery for worming out the hidden knowledge of every ruling group.
— from The International Jew : The World's Foremost Problem by Anonymous

“Thus, just those thoughts, which Protestant theologians claim as the particular domain of their historical Jesus, appear in the epistles independently of this Jesus, as individual moral effusions of the apostolic consciousness; while Christian social rules, which the same theologians consider additions to the story, are introduced directly as rules of the Lord.
— from The Christ Myth by Arthur Drews

The rule, however, is a convenient one; it is almost instinctively adopted in general society; and if judiciously applied, it may express a friendly feeling, which it is very desirable to commence with.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 94, August, 1865 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

While we were at dinner, the waits came in and sang in the hallway just as in merry England they sing under the window.
— from A Woman's Impression of the Philippines by Mary H. (Mary Helen) Fee

In this extract, as in that from the Metrical Psalter above, there is a striking preponderance of monosyllables, and, as in that case also, the final -e is invariably silent in such words as oure , stere , lede , yhere , thare , were , etc., just as in modern English.
— from English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day by Walter W. (Walter William) Skeat

ABUSE.—An encouragement of animal and debasing sensuality which soon leads to a loss of modesty, and personal respect, and virtue: the worship due to the Creator is lavished on the creature; Jealousy and its myriad evil attendants originate chiefly in the abuse of this faculty.
— from Christian Phrenology: A Guide to Self-Knowledge by Joseph Bunney

Just as I mentioned earlier, it is needless to say that much of this standardization is the result of the interference of the government and farming co-ops, which is part and parcel of their infrastructure.
— from Down with the Cities! by Tadashi Nakashima

My father was of a bolder, more determined character than my mother, and had, withal, a spice of fun in his composition; and the expression of his eyes now rendered her apprehensive of some sudden scheme that might create a feeling of justifiable anger in Mrs. Eylton.
— from A Grandmother's Recollections by Ella Rodman Church

A proud position now is his, A judge, arrayed in moral ermine, As from the Bench he sentences His fellow-man, and other vermin, And does his duty to his neighbour,
— from More Misrepresentative Men by Harry Graham