Still in cases approximating to this last, Common Sense is somewhat disposed to complain of the misdirection of valuable effort; so that the meed of honour commonly
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

Upon rising from the piano after these miracles of vocal execution, she resumed her seat by my side; when I expressed to her, in terms of the deepest enthusiasm, my delight at her performance.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

The Morality of Victims. — “Enthusiastic sacrifice,” “self-immolation” —these are the catch-words of your morality, and I willingly believe that [pg 227] you, as you say, “mean it honestly” :
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The process of coating the surface of a metal plate (as a stereotype plate) with steellike iron by means of voltaic electricity; steeling.
— from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1st 100 Pages) by Noah Webster

No prisoner, whose name is worth remembering, or whose sorrow deserved sympathy, ever crossed that “Bridge of Sighs,” which is the centre of the Byronic ideal of Venice; no great merchant of Venice ever saw that Rialto under which the traveller now passes with breathless interest: the statue which Byron makes Faliero address as of one of his great ancestors was erected to a soldier of fortune a hundred and fifty years after Faliero’s death; and the most conspicuous parts of the city have been so entirely altered in the course of the last three centuries, that if Henry Dandolo or 5 Francis Foscari could be summoned from their tombs, and stood each on the deck of his galley at the entrance of the Grand Canal, that renowned entrance, the painter’s favorite subject, the novelist’s favorite scene, where the water first narrows by the steps of the Church of La Salute,—the mighty Doges would not know in what spot of the world they stood, would literally not recognize one stone of the great city, for whose sake, and by whose ingratitude, their grey hairs had been brought down with bitterness to the grave.
— from The Stones of Venice, Volume 2 (of 3), by John Ruskin

Without money, and without friends, after meditating on various expedients, she at last remembered that she had one acquaintance in the place.
— from The Women of The American Revolution, Vol. 2 by E. F. (Elizabeth Fries) Ellet

But speaking of violinists, what would become of them if there never had been makers of violins, especially such luthiers as the Amati?
— from The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2 by Rupert Hughes

Later, we experimented on many oological varieties, especially Stilt's and Avocet's eggs.
— from Wild Spain (España agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration by Abel Chapman

An Afghan pilgrim here joined our party; he was an old man, of very extraordinary strength, and had come the whole way from Kaboul to Mekka on foot, and intended to return in the same manner.
— from Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred by John Lewis Burckhardt

They were from the south of Italy, avowedly the worst of the Italian immigration, which in the eleven years from 1891 to 1902 gave us nearly a million of Victor Emmanuel's subjects.
— from The Battle with the Slum by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis