The resolution involves fundamental questions affecting the sovereignty and powers of the Federal and State governments, most important and vital to the people of the State which I have the honor in part to represent in the United States Senate, and those of States with which they are closely allied in all social, economical, and governmental interests, upon which I have most profound convictions, unfavorable to it, known, and I believe approved, by the great majority of the people of Tennessee—arrived at after full consideration of conditions existing when I voted against a similar one some years ago and those now confronting our country.
— from The Story of the Woman's Party by Inez Haynes Gillmore

The phantom hearing in this poem is coupled, in the next poem, to phantom vision, and to a robustezza of expression: I hear an army charging upon the land, And the thunder of horses plunging, foam about their knees; Arrogant, in black armour, behind them stand, Disdaining the reins, with fluttering whips, the charioteers.
— from Instigations Together with An Essay on the Chinese Written Character by Ezra Pound

O kinge Arthùre, I beg a boone of thee; Avenge me of a carlish knighte, Who hath shent my love and me.
— from Tales and Legends of the English Lakes by Wilson Armistead

It interested him, and he made up his mind to ask Kumbelwa about it by and by.
— from Haviland's Chum by Bertram Mitford

I felt it as keenly, as if beholding a beloved relative in the grasp of death.
— from Waldfried: A Novel by Berthold Auerbach

On all systems–even of the heretics of Epiphanius and of Walch–the form of truth is imprinted, as the human form is in the bestial kingdom, although in bolder and bolder lines.
— from Hesperus; or, Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography. Vol. II. by Jean Paul

And the thunder of horses plunging; foam about their knees: Arrogant, in black armour, behind them stand, Disdaining the rains, with fluttering whips, the Charioteers.
— from Des Imagistes: An Anthology by Various

Mr. Kingsley approached it broadly and boldly, talking with a grand disregard for logic and political economy, sometimes startling the more squeamish of his audience by the Biblical frankness of his descriptions and his language, but, I think, convincing every one that he was sound at heart, and explaining unconsciously to many how it happened that one endowed with sympathies so humane and liberal should so often have distinguished himself as the champion of the stupidest systems and the harshest oppressions.
— from Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by Justin McCarthy

ar in the country, he knew all its birds, and beasts, and flowers; aye! and had a good smattering of its lingo also--it was that, partly, which had made him--what was it--afraid--or--or cautious?
— from The Mercy of the Lord by Flora Annie Webster Steel