Désormais, s'il m'arrivait de retomber dans ce piteux état, envoyez-moi votre mule, et restez en paix chez vous.» Page 8 Le médecin où allait-il?--Allait-il à pied?--De quoi souffrait son client?--Où le médecin s'est-il arrêté en route?--Est-il descendu de sa mule?--Qu'a fait la bête ensuite?--L'entrée de la maison était-elle facile?--Le malade a-t-il entendu entrer quelqu'un?--Qu'a-t-il pensé?--En quelle posture le malade se trouvait-il?--La mule a-t-elle voulu jouer le rôle de médecin?--A-t-elle tâté le pouls du client?--Celui-ci a-t-il été surpris de trouver la mule dans sa chambre?--Quel heureux effet la peur du malade a-t-elle eu?--Quel conseil cet homme a-t-il donné au médecin?
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

It seemed that whereas the fees ought to have ceased when the prison was limited in its uses, the warden had wielded an unwarrantable and arbitrary power in extorting them at more exorbitant rates, enforcing payment by loading the prisoners with irons “worse than if the Star Chamber was still existing.”
— from Non-Criminal Prisons English Debtor's Prisons and Prisons of War; French War Prisons; American War Prisons with References to Those of Other Lands by Arthur Griffiths

When lots were chosen and Hopeful won the pole, there was another shout, but it was soon followed by a row in the judge's stand, as there seemed to be a misunderstanding as to who should call time, or give the word to go, but it was finally settled, and the horses appeared for probably the most exciting race ever pulled off on the American continent.
— from Looking Back: An Autobiography by Merrick Abner Richardson

Evolution is developing reverence , with its allied qualities, mental energy, resolution, enterprise, prolonged and concentrated application, simple minded and single minded devotion to duty.
— from Systematic Theology (Volume 1 of 3) by Augustus Hopkins Strong

Müller-Kolde, p. 339: “ Imprimis autem oportet præcipua membra ecclesiæ, reges et principes, consulere ecclesiæ....
— from Luther, vol. 3 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

I was faint and worn-out with my day's pilgrimage, and had eaten very little since morning; but the most epicurean repast ever prepared by a French chef would have seemed so much dust and ashes to me that night; so I sat down meekly to my supper of bread and meat, and listened to Milly Darrell's chatter as I ate it.
— from Milly Darrell by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

They were moved from time to time, but only that on turning again they might more easily recognize every passer.
— from The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 by Various