Spain was obstinate; and it is significant of Alberoni's achievements in developing her power, and the eagerness, not to say anxiety, of George I., that the offer was made to purchase her consent by ceding Gibraltar.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan
Critical studies of classic authors do not usually give any preciseness about the exact niche the subject fills.
— from Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Patrick Braybrooke
she asked, trembling with pain and the effort not to show it.
— from A Red Wallflower by Susan Warner
Had they not bestowed on them such privileges as that, even now, they sent twenty-four or twenty-five represen
— from Discussion on American Slavery by Robert J. (Robert Jefferson) Breckinridge
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