Slaves are regarded, in the South, as the most precious of all earthly possessions; and, at the same time, as a precarious and hazardous kind of property, in the enjoyment of which the master is not safe.
— from Fifty Years in Chains; or, the Life of an American Slave by Charles Ball

There was a kind of pride in the eyes which looked at you direct, and the eyebrows descended a little inwards towards the nose, as one sees them sometimes in a man that brooks not to be crossed, but seldom in a girl.
— from Idonia: A Romance of Old London by Arthur Frederick Wallis

Completion of Fossil Fishes.—Followed by Fossil Fishes of the Old Red Sandstone.—Review of the Later Work.—Identification of Fishes by the Skull.—Renewed Correspondence with Prince Canino about Journey to the United States.—Change of Plan owing to the Interest of the King of Prussia in the Expedition.—Correspondence between Professor Sedgwick and Agassiz on Development Theory.—Final Scientific Work in Neuchatel and Paris.—Publication of "Systeme Glaciaire."—Short Stay in England.—Farewell Letter from Humboldt.
— from Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence by Louis Agassiz

But the general consent of mankind, founded on their experience, vouches for their being far indeed from even this negative kind of perfection in the employment of their reasoning powers.
— from A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive by John Stuart Mill

This Present Evening and To-Morrow , At late Cox’s Museum , Spring Gardens, A Son of the late Colonel Katterfelto of the 318 Death’s Head Hussars, belonging to the King of Prussia, is to exhibit the same variety of Performances as he did exhibit on Wednesday the 13th of March, before many Foreign Ministers, with great applause.
— from Eighteenth Century Waifs by John Ashton

Sapor, king of Persia, invaded the Eastern provinces, and defeated the Romans in various battles.
— from A Smaller History of Rome by William Smith

Non-Catholics grant a kind of plenary indulgence to every one by saying that works of penance are unnecessary.
— from Reasonableness of Catholic Ceremonies and Practices by John J. (John James) Burke

[23] A judgement contained within the less sardonic assessment, almost nine hundred years later, by Ernest Baker, who called Fulcher, "a kindly old pedant," in the *Encyclopaedia Britannica*, 11th edition, Cambridge, 1910.
— from The Deeds of God Through the Franks by Abbot of Nogent-sous-Coucy Guibert