"This volume [SPECIAL COLLECTIONS] is a monument of industry such as few could pile, and affords striking evidence of the indomitable perseverance and varied learning of Southey....
— from Notes and Queries, Number 21, March 23, 1850 by Various

She would have preferred a visual line of stalwart fellows between her and the maddened enemy, instead of one that had gone into the smoke.
— from Where the Souls of Men are Calling by Credo Fitch Harris

The ushers, painstakingly adopting various lengths of stride to the requirements of the organ, passed in pairs; then followed an equal number of young women, among whom he instantly recognized the handsome presence of Kate Polder, in drooping blue bonnets, with prodigious panniers of celestial-hued silk, carrying white enamelled shepherd's crooks from which depended loops of artificial buttercups.
— from The Three Black Pennys: A Novel by Joseph Hergesheimer

By way of concession, the Council of State agreed to the organization of a few corps of prisoners as voluntary labourers, or something of the sort; but this was by no means the fulfilment of the scheme I had in view.”
— from Memoirs of the life, exile, and conversations of the Emperor Napoleon. (Vol. IV) by Las Cases, Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné, comte de

—After breakfast, proceeded through the park, a very large open space with shady walks, statues, fountains, pools, arbours, and seats, and surrounded by palaces and fine houses—to the Cathedral, which, though immensely large, was so filled with people that we could scarcely make our way so as, [Pg 170] by standing upon chairs (for which we paid two sous each), to have a view of the building over the multitudes of heads.
— from Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Dorothy Wordsworth

We shall see that it is directly contrary to the ideals which inspire and sustain the British Commonwealth, and practically prohibits that association of races and peoples at varying levels of social progress which is its peculiar task.
— from The War and Democracy by John Dover Wilson