"I shall have to place you under guard," said Sir William, calling an aide, "and if ever this war ends and we are alive then, I should like to see you both in England, and show you off as the finest pair of rascals that ever deserved to be hanged and were not."
— from In Hostile Red by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

A new period of repose then ensued, during which various sulphurets were introduced, together with hornstone quartz,
— from The Student's Elements of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

Le Noir is one of the most scathing pictures of religious tyranny ever drawn, as a prophet of the present Catholic movement in France.
— from Books and Characters, French & English by Lytton Strachey

While that the great master prouided for all things after the course of time and tidings that hee had, there arriued a Carak of Genoa laden with spicerie from Alexandria, the which passed before the port of Rhodes the eight day of Aprill, and rid at anker at the Fosse, 7. or 8.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 05 Central and Southern Europe by Richard Hakluyt

The master-mind was there, the brilliant gems of thought, the acute power of reasoning, that exquisitely delicate sense of feeling, which has never yet been accurately defined, and which probably never can be—which waits for some unseen mystic sympathy to touch it, and decide whether the chord shall be in minor or major key—which produces a tone of thought, now sublime, and now brimming over with coruscations of wit from almost the same incidents; and yet all those faculties of the soul, though not destroyed, are held in abeyance, because the body casts the dull shadow of its own inability and degradation over the spirit—because the spirit is still allied to the flesh, and must suffer with it.
— from An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 by Mary Frances Cusack

The entire world-movement is the effort of form to mould matter, but, just because matter has in itself a power of resistance, this effort does not always succeed.
— from A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by W. T. (Walter Terence) Stace

Of this class was the Satirist, or Monthly Meteor , one of the foulest pieces of rubbish that ever disgraced the periodical press.
— from William Cobbett: A Biography in Two Volumes, Vol. 2 by Edward Smith

In the five years after the Peace of Ryswick the exports doubled themselves; the 7-095 ] merchant-shipping was quadrupled; and the revenue of the post-office rose to eighty-two thousand pounds.
— from History of the English People, Volume VII The Revolution, 1683-1760; Modern England, 1760-1767 by John Richard Green

If the powers of evil attempt by force to overthrow righteousness, righteousness may well by force oppose and thwart them; not that it may escape martyrdom, or vent its anger, but with the clear purpose of rescuing the evil doer from his devastating delusion, and of saving the most precious treasures of civilization from the axe of a vandalism, which can and ought to be restrained.
— from Religion and the War by Yale University. Divinity School

When we do find them, we'll carry out our plan of robbing them every day.
— from The Boy Trapper by Harry Castlemon