He was given a sentence of thirty years (by Judge Carson), as a sort of expression of opinion of the most Christian attitude possible concerning his real deserts, but his services as state’s evidence entitled him to immunity, and for that very good and sufficient reason Judge Carson, Prosecuting Attorney Ross, and myself so recommended to the Governor.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

Oh quiet days of peace and reverence and mild serenity; the rocking waves of the passions asleep about the tossed heart, and the glittering thoughts of heaven reflected instead from the calm soul; and its speechless infinite depths gradually mirroring themselves in the being!
— from The Harvest of a Quiet Eye: Leisure Thoughts for Busy Lives by John Richard Vernon

Give a chauffeur a high power automobile running at maximum speed on a rough and unfamiliar road, and you have some conception of the position of the operator of an aeroplane.
— from Flying Machines Today by William D. (William Duane) Ennis

The man, who was a native, gave the password all right, and made some apparently commonplace remark as he passed, which, coupled with his easy manner and the correct countersign, threw the young soldier off his guard.
— from Blue Lights: Hot Work in the Soudan by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

As he grew older his pranks assumed rather a more serious form.
— from A Terrible Tomboy by Angela Brazil

Incomprehensibly the fluctuating clamor—he could distinguish low pitched drums—brought him the vision, pale and remote and mysteriously smiling, of Cytherea.
— from Cytherea by Joseph Hergesheimer

“Yes, but pause and reflect a minute,” said Henry.
— from Rope by Holworthy Hall

Despoiled of all territorial power, of all political authority as priests, of the possession even in fee of a single church, parsonage, or palace; reduced to a state of even apostolical poverty, and receiving a miserable salary paid as to merchants' clerks by the government; with a temporal power jealous of all spiritual influence, and the whole mind of the nation infected with infidelity—year after year they are winning ground, they are making themselves felt; they present a front before which even the tyranny of centralisation pauses in its career, counts ever and anon the cost of the conflict, and recoils from its aggression.
— from Journal in France in 1845 and 1848 with Letters from Italy in 1847 Of Things and Persons Concerning the Church and Education by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies

The word “Dun,” the appanage of all dignity consecrated by Druidical worship, proves a religious and military settlement of the Celts.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac