And besides the boy there is the little blind god who shoots his arrows so industriously that the whole party return engaged save the boy, the chaperon, and the poor odd man; and even he makes a determined effort to join the majority; but in his case the Fates are stronger even than the Little Blind God.
— from A Romance of the West Indies by Eugène Sue

Junius, writing on his own behalf, would have, in all probability, retained evidence sufficient to substantiate his title, when the peril of the discovery should have passed away, which it did within a few years; for who would have thought, in 1780, of punishing even the libels on the king in 1770?
— from The American Quarterly Review, No. 18, June 1831 (Vol 9) by Various

Thus when she wished to convince herself that predestined races exist, she took from France, that she might hoist him into celebrity, a writer whom we have not read—Gobineau.
— from The Meaning of the War: Life & Matter in Conflict by Henri Bergson

The police records everywhere show that wickedness of heart "dwells in white and black the same."
— from Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field: Southern Adventure in Time of War. Life with the Union Armies, and Residence on a Louisiana Plantation by Thomas Wallace Knox

2. The ceremonies do indeed greatly countenance those superstitions of Papists, because communio rituum est quasi symbolum communionis in religione ; 384 so that Papists get occasion from the ceremonies, of confirming, not only those popish rites which we have not yet received, but also the whole popish religion, especially since they see Conformists so siding with them against Non-Conformists, and making both their opinions [pg 1-096] and practices to be better than we reckon them to be.
— from The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by George Gillespie