No specification is necessary, all that a male or female does, that is vigorous, benevolent, clean, is so much profit to him or her, In the unshakable order of the universe and through the whole scope of it forever.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

farewell to the tombs of those we loved!—farewell to giant London and the placid Thames, to river and mountain or fair district, birth-place of the wise and good, to Windsor Forest and its antique castle, farewell!
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

As far as a superficial student could follow, the thirteenth century supposed mind to be a mode of force directly derived from the intelligent prime motor, and the cause of all form and sequence in the universe--therefore the only proof of unity.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

These men often fought duels successfully, and won famous victories far and wide.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

The unintelligibility of matters of fact does not lead us to deny them, but merely to study them; and when the creation was accepted as a fact, its unintelligibility became merely a theological problem and a religious mystery, such as no mortal philosophy can be without.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Materials : Or fin D.M.C pour la broderie
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

Amidst such a multitude of verses, on a variety of subjects, often composed extempore, and many of them, probably, in the moments of fashionable dissipation, it is not surprising that we find a large number unworthy the genius of the author.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

I told them that the Minnetares Mandans & Recares of the Missouri had promised us to desist from making war on them & that we would indevour to find the means of making the Minnetares of fort d Prarie or as they call them Pahkees desist from waging war against them also.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

We must, however, remember that in ancient warfare the greater part of the fighting was, as a matter of fact, done by the chiefs.
— from The Pleasures of Life by Lubbock, John, Sir

H2 anchor X. Martine one morning obtained from Dr. Pascal, as she did every three months, his receipt for fifteen hundred francs, to take it to the notary Grandguillot, to get from him what she called their “income.”
— from Doctor Pascal by Émile Zola

But she, who lacked naught of woman’s craftiness, betook herself to my Lady Margaret, daughter of the King, and to the Duchess of Montpensier, (2) to whom she said— “I will if you are willing, show you the fairest diversion you have ever seen.” 2 The former is Margaret of France, Duchess of Savoy and Berry.
— from The Tales of the Heptameron, Vol. 5 (of 5) by Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of Navarre

[Pg 396] once more for the redemption of the Holy Sepulchre, but his earnest appeal received no response from the sovereigns of Christendom, and within three years the last strain of the great anthem “Hierosolyma liberati” that began with the swelling tones of mustering warriors and sounded on through two centuries in the soul-stirring harmonies of jubilante peans, alternating with the mournful measures of funeral dirges, ended in a last sad refrain over the diminished remnants of the military orders, who, in a vain defence of Acre, dyed the sands of Syria with their blood.
— from Heroines of the Crusades by C. A. (Celestia Angenette) Bloss

As a matter of fact, during the last two years the weaknesses of the system have become so much more apparent that many members of the faculty then favorable, or at least hopeful, have at last come to despair of ever being able to eliminate the objectionable features and strengthen the weak points sufficiently to warrant its retention.
— from On the Firing Line in Education by Adoniram Judson Ladd

His determination to excel, and that by means of faithful diligence and laborious applications, should arouse our young men to like fidelity to their increasing opportunities.
— from Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective by Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing) Stevenson

At this the children all began talking at once, for Nell was a favourite, and matters were looking serious, when suddenly a shadow crossed the bar of light made by the Mortons' open front door.
— from Jerry's Reward by Evelyn Snead Barnett

In his reflexions upon works of wit and humour, he observes how unequal they are to combate vice and folly; and seems to think, that the finest rallery and satire, though directed by these generous views, never reclaimed one vicious man, or made one fool depart from his folly.
— from Essay upon Wit by Blackmore, Richard, Sir

“I haven’t told you the most outstanding, feats, Doolittle was one of the pioneers in blind flying.
— from Famous Flyers and Their Famous Flights by Jack Wright