—¿No es lícito emplear alguna vez en la vida medios indirectos para conseguir un fin bueno y honrado?
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Both in a social and a psychological sense revelations come from beneath, like earthquakes and volcanic eruptions; and while they fill the spirit with contempt for those fragile structures which they so easily overwhelm, they are utterly incapable of raising anything on the ruins.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Lincoln entertained a very exalted opinion of Chase's ability as a lawyer and a man.
— from Fifty Years of Public Service Personal Recollections of Shelby M. Cullom, Senior United States Senator from Illinois by Shelby M. (Shelby Moore) Cullom

There are the graves of two whom we buried here last evening, after vain efforts to restore them to life!”
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXX, No. 3, March 1847 by Various

And for the very simple reason, already given, that Ireland cannot have a truly Catholic Parliament, and that all the great measures which would occupy the attention of the Catholic members, in the event of their meeting at Dublin, would be shemes for the advancement of manufactures, trade, the construction of ships, tenant-right laws, etc.; all very excellent things in their way, and to which Ireland has an undoubted right, which will be strongly contested, and in the struggle for which she may again be worsted; which, even if she obtains, will not enable her to compete with England, and which, after and above all, do not correspond to the heart-beat of the nation—the restoration complete and entire of the Catholic Church all over her broad land.
— from The Irish Race in the Past and the Present by Augustus J. Thébaud

And she was equally subjugated by his more modern orbs,—orbs with that steely point of brilliant light, generated by large experience and varied emotion,—electric orbs, such as never shone in the elder world.
— from A Rose of a Hundred Leaves: A Love Story by Amelia E. Barr

In 1859 Mr. Disraeli invented a quackish phrase about lateral extension and vertical extension, and offered votes to various classes who mainly had them already, without extending downwards; but whatever else his plan might do, it opened no door for the workmen.
— from The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 2 (of 3) 1859-1880 by John Morley

A body of scouts who were slightly in the lead emerged, after various exciting adventures, upon the broad hills that skirt the Delaware river.
— from The War Chief of the Six Nations: A Chronicle of Joseph Brant by Louis Aubrey Wood

Peter yanked viciously at his two-inch starched collar, polished the bright yellow toes of his bulldog oxfords with his handkerchief, kicked and stamped to straighten the legs of his peg trousers which had an embarrassing manner of working up the calves of his legs exposing a vast expanse of green polka-dot socks to say nothing of the clips of his garters.
— from Plowing On Sunday by Sterling North