He proceeds to deal out very unreserved language on the person and character of the Nabob and his ministers.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

“The Oregon Emergency Corps realizing that its aims and objects are far-reaching, will remain a permanent organization to aid not only the brave Oregon Volunteers upon land or sea, but assist in the welfare of the wives and children, many of whom may need care and support while their loved ones are absent.”
— from The Red Cross in Peace and War by Clara Barton

Peace, peace there in the belfrie, seruice begins, vpon their knees before they ioyne, fals Iohn Leiden and his fraternitie verie deuoutly, they pray, they houle, they expostulate with God to grant them victory, and vse such vnspeakable vehemence, a man would thinke them the onely well bent men vtider heauen, wherein let mee dilate a little more grauely than the nature of this historie requires, or will be expected of so young a practitioner in diuinitie: that not those that intermissiuely cry, Lord open vnto us, Lord open vnto us, enter first into the kingdome of heauen, that not the greatest professors haue the greatest portion in grace, that all is not golde that glisters.
— from The Vnfortunate Traveller, or The Life Of Jack Wilton With An Essay On The Life And Writings Of Thomas Nash By Edmund Gosse by Thomas Nash

see at once that the links of this chain are of very unequal length; or, rather, that there are in some instances wide intervals between the nearest species, as if one or more links had dropped out.
— from The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Edward Hitchcock

They are not nearly so sharp as those which were constantly heard, during the siege, from the officers of the navy; and the Admiral's telegraphic note on page 327, "My chief pilot informs me a gale is coming on, and I am coming into the creek," was the source of very unpardonable levity on board some of the gun-boats.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

We always act as if everything were possible, and nothing certain; and in our very uncertainty lies our greatest security.” “At all events, you don’t believe one word of this story?”
— from Luttrell Of Arran by Charles James Lever