Who shall say that, let loose in the crowded centers of population, it may not one day engulf us all?
— from Marse Henry (Volume 1) An Autobiography by Henry Watterson

There were circumstances in the present case, such as the difference between the constituencies of Aylesbury and Middlesex, and the enthusiastic fervor in the offender's cause which the populace of the City had displayed, which made it very doubtful whether the precedent of 1764 were quite a safe one to follow; but the ministers not only disregarded every such consideration, but, as if they had wantonly designed to give their measure a bad appearance, and to furnish its opponents with the strongest additional argument against it, they mixed up with their present complaint a reference to former misdeeds of Wilkes with which it had no connection.
— from The Constitutional History of England from 1760 to 1860 by Charles Duke Yonge

All the men not on duty, except the recruits, turned out for half an hour’s drill in undress uniform.
— from Taking Tales: Instructive and Entertaining Reading by William Henry Giles Kingston

Proletarian rule will mean not only democratic equality, free self-government, shifting the burden of taxation on the propertied classes, dissolution of the army among the revolutionary people, abolition of compulsory payments for the Church, but also recognition of all revolutionary changes made by the peasants in agrarian relations (seizures of land).
— from Our Revolution: Essays on Working-Class and International Revolution, 1904-1917 by Leon Trotsky

But, on consulting with some persons better acquainted with the delicacy of credit in Holland, I found there was reason to fear that a failure to pay that money might not only do essential injury to our credit in general, but even hinder the progress of the loan going on in the hands of Willincks and Van Staphorsts; and that it would be for the interest of that loan itself, to pay this demand out of it, if possible.
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson Library Edition - Vol. 6 (of 20) by Thomas Jefferson

[274] Russian Characteristics , by E.B. Lanin (Eblanin, a Russian word which means native of Dublin, Eblana).
— from The Inside Story of the Peace Conference by Emile Joseph Dillon

She never left him now for a moment, night or day, except when there was preaching in her own church and her faith required the "breaking of bread"; and at rare long intervals to go to prayer-meeting, when she felt her strength failing and hoped to find in the prayers of others new strength for her own ceaseless petitions.
— from Oldfield: A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century by Nancy Huston Banks

In each one of the subjects there is much need of definite experimental work, in order that the specific bonds necessary in forming the habits peculiar to the subject be determined.
— from How to Teach by Naomi Norsworthy

Oh, tell me not of dark eyes swimming in their own ethereal essence; tell me not of pouting lips, of glossy ringlets, of taper fingers, and well-rounded insteps; speak not to me of soft voices, whose seductive sounds ring sweetly in our hearts; preach not of those thousand womanly graces so dear to every man, and doubly to him who lives apart from all their influences and their fascinations; neither dwell upon congenial temperament, similarity of taste, of disposition, and of thought; these are not the great risks a man runs in life.
— from Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 by Charles James Lever

Some dislike it, because they think that it endangers the modern notions of democratic equality.
— from Westminster Sermons with a Preface by Charles Kingsley