Well, being the poor devils we are, with our own way to push in life and nothing to help us on, we must be brave and good.
— from The Aspirations of Jean Servien by Anatole France

But if coarse in speech he was pure in life, and neither the rancor of political hate nor the research of unsparing biographers ever charged him with an unchaste act.
— from The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement by George Spring Merriam

To say that we are under a natural necessity, then, is only to say that our power is limited, and not that it is not free.
— from An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will by Albert Taylor Bledsoe

So says Wharton in his valuable treatise on Mental Unsoundness ( 318 ); or as Cicero elegantly put it long ago, “ nihil tam absurde dici potest, quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosophorum ” ( 319 ).
— from The Law and Medical Men by R. Vashon (Robert Vashon) Rogers

The palate is long and narrow, the pterygoid (fig.
— from The Vertebrate Skeleton by Sidney H. (Sidney Hugh) Reynolds

He gives the date of 1620, as that when the family of Van den Gheyns were bringing the art of bell founding to perfection in Louvain, and notes that the tower and bells of each fortified town were half civic property.
— from Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders by George Wharton Edwards

But here in Red Creek the theatre was a draughty barn, and the farm workers, big men odorous of warm, acid perspiration, pushed in laughing and noisy; the films were of a different character, too, and advertised by frightful coloured posters at the doors.
— from Sisters by Kathleen Thompson Norris