The world will be freed by our liberty, enriched by our wealth, magnified by our greatness.
— from The Jewish State by Theodor Herzl

To Defoe's genius we are also indebted for two discoveries, the "interview" and the leading editorial, both of which are still in daily use in our best newspapers.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

ANT: Heavy, ponderous, weighty, immovable, leaden, solid, hard, indigestible, full, lazy, encumbered, burdened, oppressed, weighed, loaded, laden, ballasted, grave, serious, important, violent, steady, firm, principled, cautious, reflective, reliable, liable, sensible, earnest, thoughtful, well-considered, well-weighed, adequate, stiff, compact, dark, dark-colored.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

He was a young man who had been to Nagasaki and knew a little English, both of which facts in those days gave him a title to be considered travelled and learned, but he had no authority to speak on behalf of his [pg 236] prince.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

Let 'em bile over with waitin' first, and that'll put the fire out.
— from Tales of Trail and Town by Bret Harte

In October, 1880, perfectly normal position of the eyes showed itself with the same visual acuity and emmetropia in both eyes; at the same time, however, the boy affirmed that when reading he could never see with his left eye but only with the right; in reality only the right visual field was perceived in the stereoscope.
— from Clinical Investigations on Squint by C. Schweigger

This work was composed, according to Pertsch, in A.D. 1329, by a Persian named Nakhshabí, after an older Persian version, now lost, which was made from a Sanskrit work, also no longer extant, but of which the modern representative is the Suka Saptati , or Seventy Tales of a Parrot.
— from Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers by W. A. (William Alexander) Clouston

During this stay he ascended the principal cone, carefully examining both the larger and the smaller craters, and descended into the Val del Bove, a laborious expedition, but one which well repaid him by throwing much light on the structure of the volcanic mass.
— from Charles Lyell and Modern Geology by T. G. (Thomas George) Bonney

The child, Felicia, stood as if rooted to the ground in amazement, her large eyes brimming over with tears, while Oonah, roused to action by the wrath in her mistress’s face, seized Tor by the shoulder and hurried him through the garden, pausing only to unlock a small door in the wall.
— from Tor, a Street Boy of Jerusalem by Florence Morse Kingsley

The Temple guide spoke a little English, but occasionally would stop for want of words, but we generally gathered his meaning, and he seemed unusually intelligent.
— from India Impressions, With some notes of Ceylon during a winter tour, 1906-7. by Walter Crane

[5] INTRODUCTION With utmost confidence and pleasure, I give an introductory expression for this intelligible, authentic, and most valuable little volume, the product of great sacrifice and long experience, by one who was favored and honored with lucrative educational positions, being a classic.
— from South and South Central Africa A record of fifteen years' missionary labors among primitive peoples by Hannah Frances Davidson

And out over the liquid rainbow surface of the strait rolled a long echo, blent of war-cries, shouts of vengeance, the booming of snake-skin drums—defiance of the human wolf-pack now giving wild tongue.
— from Cursed by George Allan England