Liberalism is sometimes suspected of being cold to these new hopes, and you may often hear it said that Liberalism is already superseded by Socialism.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

His birth, like that of many other heroes, is said to have been miraculous.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Mine own hand is so The stronger, if I have this plea to show Thy persecutors: and for thee withal The bond more sure.—On what God shall I call?
— from Medea of Euripides by Euripides

My object here is simply to project the draught of a systematization of cetology.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Sthenelus, son of Capaneus, saw them coming and said to Diomed, "Diomed, son of Tydeus, man after my own heart, I see two heroes speeding towards you, both of them men of might the one a skilful archer, Pandarus son of Lycaon, the other, Aeneas, whose sire is Anchises, while his mother is Venus.
— from The Iliad by Homer

Athel regarded her for several moments; she was revealing to him more of her inner self than he had yet divined.
— from A Life's Morning by George Gissing

It was then and later that I realized that the very manner of her indignation showed the truth of the new psychology of dreams, for, as I later learned, people often become indignant when the analyst strikes what is called by the new psychologists the "main complex" of ideas.
— from The Soul Scar: A Craig Kennedy Scientific Mystery Novel by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve

Whereat we forgot our errand, and fell upon them with our spears and clubs; and they being unprepared, there was great slaughter—" "With my own hands I slew their shaman," proclaimed Lone Chief, his withered face a-work with memory of that old-time day.
— from Children of the Frost by Jack London

His career at Annapolis, however, was doing much to make a man of him in short time.
— from Dave Darrin's First Year at Annapolis Two Plebe Midshipmen at the United States Naval Academy by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

Although the general macroeconomic outlook has improved significantly, the Philippines continues to face important challenges and must maintain the reform momentum in order to catch up with regional competitors, improve employment opportunities, and alleviate poverty.
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

These remarks on the ethnography of the Bible might be greatly extended, but my object here is simply to show that the Bible, to say the least, leaves the field open, and that I have entered it soberly, discreetly, and advisedly.
— from The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind by Gobineau, Arthur, comte de

Sir Bevill I did not see, but striding down into the hall, picked my way among the drinking and drunken; the servants hurrying with dishes of roast and baked and great tankards of beer; the swords and pikes flung down under the forms and settles, and sticking out to trip a man up; and at length found a groom who led me to a loft over one of the barns: and here, above a mattress of hay, I slept the first time for many months between fresh linen that smell'd of lavender, and in thinking how pleasant 'twas, dropped sound asleep.
— from The Splendid Spur Being Memoirs of the Adventures of Mr. John Marvel, a Servant of His Late Majesty King Charles I, in the Years 1642-3 by Arthur Quiller-Couch