I concede that the class of arrests complained of can be constitutional only when, in cases of rebellion or invasion, the public safety may require them; and I insist that in such cases—they are constitutional wherever the public safety does require them, as well in places to which they may prevent the rebellion extending, as in those where it may be already prevailing; as well where they may restrain mischievous interference with the raising and supplying of armies to suppress the rebellion as where the rebellion may actually be; as well where they may restrain the enticing men out of the army as where they would prevent mutiny in the army; equally constitutional at all places where they will conduce to the public safety as against the dangers of rebellion or invasion.
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete by Abraham Lincoln

With the wind blowing and the bare branches of the old apple tree scraping the roof and whining dolefully, it looked bleak and forsaken.
— from Cap'n Warren's Wards by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

It is impossible for an architect or artist to survey the ruthless and wanton destruction of this noble wing, unscathed and uninjured but by the hands of barbarous man, without feelings of the deepest regret and sorrow.
— from Recollections of the late William Beckford of Fonthill, Wilts and Lansdown, Bath by Henry Venn Lansdown

Some of the men shook themselves, but others did not move, and so I gave the order to set off again; they shouldered their rifles, and with weary feet we set out again, when suddenly the scouts fell back.
— from A Selection from the Writings of Guy De Maupassant, Vol. I by Guy de Maupassant

It is difficult to say, for artists often allow their sensibility to run away with them.
— from Belgians Under the German Eagle by Jean Massart

HUMAN MERCHANDISE Mr. Pollexfen was at one and the same time right and wrong—a condition much more common than is generally supposed.
— from Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini