Their great progress in penmanship is complimentary of well developed organs of imitation.
— from Biography and Family Record of Lorenzo Snow One of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Eliza R. (Eliza Roxey) Snow

I feel as if I had made it up, as it were, with this lady, and that we part in peace, in consequence of my providing her with so sublime a death-bed.
— from Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray

His mere success was not the only Divine witness in his favour; Luther was also of opinion that owing to God’s notable working, signs and wonders had taken place in plenty in confirmation of the new teaching; such Divine wonders, however, must not be “thrown to the winds.”
— from Luther, vol. 3 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

The large Tree of Jesse rising from the loins of the Patriarch is portrayed in colours of almost barbaric richness No matter by which road we leave Wells, one should look back more than once to enjoy the charming views of the cathedral and its Close.
— from Stained Glass Tours in England by Charles Hitchcock Sherrill

A. Phillipson in particular, in command of the left platoon, No. 13, had a most anxious and trying time.
— from The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919 History of the 1/8th Battalion by W. C. C. Weetman

Santa Anna, Mexico's popular idol, put in command of the Mexicans.
— from The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 5 July 1906 by Various

By the judicious use of red, a fine decorated page is possible if carried out in this style.
— from Illumination and Its Development in the Present Day by Sidney Farnsworth

The large Tree of Jesse, rising from the loins of the patriarch, is portrayed in colours of almost barbaric richness.
— from Stained Glass Tours in England by Charles Hitchcock Sherrill

It is enough for me to say that an exposure of them took place, in part, in consequence of some discovering made by my father's unsatisfied creditors, by which the obscure transactions of thirty years were brought to light, or required to be brought to light; and in the development of which, the fair business fame of my uncle was likely to be involved in a very serious degree—not to speak of the inevitable effects upon his resources of a discovery and proof of fraudulent concealment.
— from Confession; Or, The Blind Heart. A Domestic Story by William Gilmore Simms

As to the place of meeting for the Legislature, were we authorized to decide that question, I should think it right to have it in some place in Pennsylvania, in consideration of the principles of the Residence bill, and we might furnish no pretext to that state to infringe them hereafter.
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 4 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson