Like Browning, the poet had loved one good woman supremely, and her love made clear the meaning of all life.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

But the three men are alike in their desire to set free the individual from existing social bonds, and to procure him liberty of growth.
— from A Short History of English Liberalism by W. Lyon (Walter Lyon) Blease

Margraf George the Pious, he left only George Friedrich; an excellent man, who is now prosperous in the world, and wedded long since, but has no children.
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 03 by Thomas Carlyle

What date the trees Mr. Ward alludes to might have borne we cannot say; but certain it is, that modern palms have left off growing to the height of five hundred feet; which, considering it to be about three times the height of the Monument, and one hundred feet more than the height of St. Paul's, is not so very surprising.
— from The Choice Humorous Works, Ludicrous Adventures, Bons Mots, Puns, and Hoaxes of Theodore Hook by Theodore Edward Hook

BY M. P. H. LEPAGE, OF GISORS.
— from New York Journal of Pharmacy, Volume 1 (of 3), 1852 Published by Authority of the College of Pharmacy of the City of New York. by College of Pharmacy of the City of New York

[The letters passed through the present writer's hands some five years ago, when he was preparing his Life of George Thomson(1898).
— from Haydn by J. Cuthbert (James Cuthbert) Hadden

In this path he leans on God's help absolutely and only.
— from Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family by Elizabeth Rundle Charles

Presently he lifted one great paw to the window.
— from The Hound From The North by Ridgwell Cullum

He built palaces, he laid out gardens[d], he changed the face of the land, he transplanted forests, he levelled mountains, opened prospects into distant regions, poured fountains from the tops of turrets, and rolled rivers through new channels.
— from The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II by Samuel Johnson