In these struggles between nobles and the clergy, and between the clergy and kings, Rise of Popular Power.
— from A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges by John Lord

On the Advantages of keeping Records of Physical Phenomena connected with Thunderstorms.
— from Lightning Conductors: Their History, Nature, and Mode of Application by Anderson, Richard, F.C.S.

Every corner and nook is built up into some snug, cozy nestling place, some “procreant cradle,” not tenanted by meager expectants or whiskered warriors, but by sleek placemen; knowing realizers of present pay and present pudding; who seem placed there not to kill and destroy, but to breed and multiply.
— from The Crayon Papers by Washington Irving

After Dominick Callender and my grandfather had conversed some time, with many interchanges of the kindly remembrances of past pleasures, the gentle friar began to bewail his sad estate in being a professed monk, and so mournfully to deplore the rashness with which inexperienced youth often takes upon itself a yoke it can never lay down, that the compassion of his friend was sorrowfully awakened, for he saw he was living a life of bitterness and grief.
— from Ringan Gilhaize, or, The Covenanters by John Galt

The scene was a living Kentucky replica of Paul Potter's Bull .
— from The Doctor's Christmas Eve by James Lane Allen

52 Kerim Khan , Regent of Persia, p.
— from A Journey through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor, to Constantinople, in the Years 1808 and 1809 In Which is Included, Some Account of the Proceedings of His Majesty's Mission, under Sir Harford Jones, Bart. K. C. to the Court of Persia by James Justinian Morier

Oceana kneels on one knee R. of Poesie , pointing off R. Poesie places her left hand on Oceana's shoulder, leans forward, shades her eyes with right hand, and looks in the direction of pointed hand .
— from The Exhibition Drama Comprising Drama, Comedy, and Farce, Together with Dramatic and Musical Entertainments by George M. (George Melville) Baker

Distressing as it all was, it was change, it was variety, it was occupation, it was relief from that terrible killing round of perpetual personal responsibility.
— from Philistia by Grant Allen