“The priest he began:—'I should like,' says he, 'as many Moslems to die as there are animals sacrificed by them on the day of sacrifice.' “'And I,' says the 'ulama, 'would like to see put out of the way so many Christians as they eat eggs on Easter.'
— from My Winter on the Nile Eighteenth Edition by Charles Dudley Warner

It seems to me that all His teaching was directed to the end that we should believe in God as a loving Father, and regard all men as brothers; the principle which was to direct His followers was to be the principle of perfect love, and I think that His idea was that, if men could accept that, everything else mattered little.
— from Beside Still Waters by Arthur Christopher Benson

Ship after ship of the enemy was falling, as hundreds of the terrestrial machines concentrated all their enormous energies on its screen of blankness.
— from The Last Evolution by Campbell, John W., Jr. (John Wood)

“Bah!” exclaimed Napoleon when he was told by an eye-witness of the revolution at Madrid and the sullen courage of the people, “they will calm down and will bless me as soon as they see their country freed from the discredit and disorder into which it has been thrown by the weakest and most corrupt administration that ever existed.”
— from The Story of Napoleon by Harold Wheeler

I am old enough to recollect the trenches before Sebastopol, and all that my countrymen and the English endured there.
— from A Beleaguered City Being a Narrative of Certain Recent Events in the City of Semur, in the Department of the Haute Bourgogne. A Story of the Seen and the Unseen by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

Lord Ashburton and Mr. Webster readily agreed that a treaty must come from mutual conciliation and compromise; but, after a good deal of correspondence, it became apparent that the Maine commissioners and the English envoy could not be brought to an agreement.
— from Daniel Webster by Henry Cabot Lodge

It was the agony of the old language which, after having become moldy from age to age, ended by dissolving, by reaching that deliquescence of the Latin language which expired in the mysterious concepts and the enigmatical expressions of Saint Boniface and Saint Adhelme.
— from Against the Grain by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans