" "How is this?" thought the princess; "am I really cured?
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

p. 473, from the Cotton MSS.; the O’Brien and Burke patents are in Rymer, Conatius being by mistake printed for Donatus; see the King to the Lord Deputy and Council, July 9, 1543; MacWilliam submitted much in the same terms as O’Neill.
— from Ireland under the Tudors, with a Succinct Account of the Earlier History. Vol. 1 (of 3) by Richard Bagwell

The political and intellectual reaction could only have the effect of impelling the poetic and artistic emotions of young and unquiet spirits into opposition, on principle, to all that was established, into a fiery contempt for public opinion, into the apotheosis of unrestrained passion and unfettered genius.
— from The History of Modern Painting, Volume 1 (of 4) Revised edition continued by the author to the end of the XIX century by Richard Muther

After the hideous slaughter on the floor of parliament, all its remaining Croat members withdrew.
— from Terrorists and Freedom Fighters by Samuel Vaknin

A PROPOSAL AND ITS RESULTS CHAPTER XVI.
— from An Outback Marriage: A Story of Australian Life by A. B. (Andrew Barton) Paterson

“Simply because I wanted to stop some place, and I really can’t stand that mincing Miss Mitchin and her half-baked yearners and that odious creature with the beard and the ballet skirt, again.”
— from The Innocents: A Story for Lovers by Sinclair Lewis

of some persons for charity, Ib. Ref. for planting the Kirk of Bruntiland to the Commission for publick affairs, Ib. Ref. concerning the planting of the Kirk of Prestoun to the Commission for publick Affairs, Ib. Ref. for planting the vaking Kirk in Glasgow to the Commission for publick affairs, Ib. Ref.
— from The Acts Of The General Assemblies of the Church of Scotland by Church of Scotland. General Assembly

You will not concede Pinkhammer; and I really cannot at all conceive of the—the roses and other things.
— from Strictly Business: More Stories of the Four Million by O. Henry

Ireland has a Railway Clearing House of its own—established in the year 1848—to which practically all Irish railway companies, and they are numerous, belong; and the six principal Irish railways are members of the London Clearing House.
— from Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland by Joseph Tatlow

The point is, that a compact nation under strict centralized control, served by a trained horde of officials with no wish for a change, and backed by a standing army of over seven hundred thousand men, who are not only a defence against the foreigner, but a powerful police against internal revolution, cannot serve as a model in either its successes or failures for a democratic country like ours.
— from Germany and the Germans from an American Point of View by Price Collier