So virulent is the microbe of party politics, even in a peaceable old man, that Captain Jim's cheeks were flushed and his eyes were flashing with all his old-time fire.
— from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

He threatened the Mob with the vengeance of the Inquisition: But in this moment of popular phrenzy even this dreadful name had lost its effect.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

From hatred of privilege and from the embarrassment of choosing, all men are at last constrained, whatever may be their standard, to pass the same ordeal; all are indiscriminately subjected to a multitude of petty preliminary exercises, in which their youth is wasted and their imagination quenched, so that they despair of ever fully attaining what is held out to them; and when at length they are in a condition to perform any extraordinary acts, the taste for such things has forsaken them.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

With few exceptions mortgages on private property end in disaster to the giver.
— from Gospel Doctrine: Selections from the Sermons and Writings of Joseph F. Smith by Joseph F. (Joseph Fielding) Smith

Had her means of propulsion proved equal to her power of attack and defence, it is doubtful if the whole Union navy on the Mississippi could have stood against her single-handed.
— from History of the Nineteenth Army Corps by Richard B. (Richard Biddle) Irwin

There was evidence to show, however, that he was honestly devoted to the interests of Monsieur Caratal, and that the latter, being a man of puny physique, employed the other as a guard 191 and protector.
— from Round the Fire Stories by Arthur Conan Doyle

“He’s something like my old pal, Panther Eye,” he told himself.
— from The Rope of Gold A Mystery Story for Boys by Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell

Grant reminded him that he was there only as a private individual, but added, "It would be a true joy to me if my advice or efforts could be the means of preserving peace, especially between two nations for whom I cherish such interest as for China and Japan.
— from Pax mundi A concise account of the progress of the movement for peace by means of arbitration, neutralization, international law and disarmament by K. P. (Klas Pontus) Arnoldson

When it is borne in mind that the most ancient and mythic of these legends have been taken down from the trembling memories of old squaws who never understood their inner meaning, or from ordinary senaps who had not thought of them since boyhood, it will be seen that the preservation of a mass of prose poems, equal in bulk to the Kalevala or Heldenbuch, is indeed almost miraculous.
— from Algonquin Legends of New England by Charles Godfrey Leland

He now accompanied his chief to Crema, Modena, and Parma, in which latter city, he, the man of peace par excellence , assisted at the great battle of June 1734.
— from The Comedies of Carlo Goldoni edited with an introduction by Helen Zimmern by Carlo Goldoni

Napoleon thus had the first chance placed in his hands of possessing exclusively for a time, the greatest and most diversified means of physical power ever known in the world.
— from Military Career of Napoleon the Great An Account of the Remarkable Campaigns of the "Man of Destiny"; Authentic Anecdotes of the Battlefield as Told by the Famous Marshals and Generals of the First Empire by Montgomery B. Gibbs