The fears once expressed by the followers of Malthus as to the future of the world have proved groundless as regards the civilized portion of the world; it is strange indeed to look back at Carlyle's prophecies of some seventy years ago, and then think of the teeming life of achievement, the life of conquest of every kind, and of noble effort crowned by success, which has been ours for the two generations since he complained to High Heaven that all the tales had been told and all the songs sung, and that all the deeds really worth doing had been done.
— from African and European Addresses by Theodore Roosevelt

The masterful Pope Gregory VII., in his letter addressed to the princes of Spain, said: "You are aware, I believe, that from the earliest times the kingdom of Spain was the special patrimony of Saint Peter, and although pagans have occupied it, it still belongs to the same master."
— from Women of the Romance Countries by John R. (John Robert) Effinger

It was not uncommon in parts of Sussex some years ago, but there appears to be no record of its occurrence there now.
— from The Butterflies of the British Isles by Richard South

It must also be borne in mind, that these distant territories offered an asylum to many who fled from the vengeance of the laws, men without principle, thieves, rogues, and vagabonds, who escaping there, would often interfere with the happiness and peace of some small yet well-conducted community, which had migrated and settled on these fertile regions.
— from Diary in America, Series One by Frederick Marryat

Our host, a Cossack from the river Iaik, was a peasant of some sixty years, still fresh and green.
— from Marie; a story of Russian love by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

Sealing is an industry which still claims considerable attention from the Scandinavians and Scotchmen who go to the coasts and waters about Spitzbergen, 242 Jan Mayen, and Greenland, as well as to nearer resorts, in pursuit of several species yielding oil and valuable hides; and in the North Pacific the pursuit of the fur seal still occupies many small vessels, but seems likely to come soon to an end.
— from The Book of the Ocean by Ernest Ingersoll

Its head is a sounding C (sea), its tail a flowing D (river Dee), and amid their depths the cod may fearless play, parent of softest sounds yet mute for ever.
— from Enquire Within Upon Everything The Great Victorian Domestic Standby by Robert Kemp Philp