Our railways carry us safely into a mountain-world hitherto tremblingly scaled on foot.
— from The Jewish State by Theodor Herzl

It has implanted in our religions certain unspiritual shifts, such as dependence on personal pardon for salvation, rather than obedience to our Father's demands, whereby we grow out of sin in the way that our Lord has appointed; namely, [4] by working out our own salvation.
— from The People's Idea of God: Its Effect On Health And Christianity by Mary Baker Eddy

Therefore they proceeded to do just what our Republican Congress, under such circumstances, would probably have done, and just what the New York Tribune, if it had existed in those days, would have advised them to do.
— from The Unseen World, and Other Essays by John Fiske

The Catalan one retained children under seven years of age, whose parents were going to infidel lands, which led them to make their way through France to Barbary.
— from A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 3 by Henry Charles Lea

When first our king, Flaminius I do mean, Did set upon the Neapolitans, The worst of you did know and plainly see How far they were unable to withstand The mighty forces of our royal camp, Until such time as froward fates we thought,— Although the fates ordain'd it for our gain,— [Pg 28] Did send a stranger stout, whose sturdy blows And force alone did cause our overthrow.
— from Robert Greene: [Six Plays] by Robert Greene

“I’m off to the ‘Grey Wethers,’ those old ruined circles under Sittaford Tor, you know.
— from Children of the Mist by Eden Phillpotts

The old measurement of racing craft used simply to be length on the 'ram' or keel, which as long as all boats were of the same type in other respects was fair enough.
— from Yachting, Vol. 2 by Dufferin and Ava, Frederick Temple Blackwood, Marquis of

I know that other races call us slaves of the Lhari .
— from The Colors of Space by Marion Zimmer Bradley