Beyond lay Russia, and there an older, perhaps a surer, power, resting on the eternal law of inertia, held its own.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

Moral perfection consists in assimilation to this; sin is the falling short of perfect revealing of the eternal logos.
— from Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 by Thomas Henry Huxley

Thus intrenched, they waited in absolute silence, with calm courage, for the onslaught, and shortly heard the tramp of approaching feet, the ring of guns and swords, and the exclamations of astonishment uttered by the invaders, when the powerful rays of the electric light flashed on their advancing mass.
— from The Island of Fantasy: A Romance by Fergus Hume

The ground was cumbered with the dead and dying, while the air was so thick with gunpowder smoke that it hung like a veil between the contending parties, and not even the powerful rays of the electric light could break through the opaque cloud.
— from The Island of Fantasy: A Romance by Fergus Hume

As we look out from one of the heights of this region to another, we better understand the political relations of the endless little communities which thus lived on in one another's sight.
— from Studies of Travel: Italy by Edward A. (Edward Augustus) Freeman

It should be mentioned that the late Professor Palmieri, relying on the extremely limited disturbed area, dissented from this view; but his difficulty is met by supposing the focus to be small as well as shallow, a supposition that is supported by the shortness of the meizoseismal band, as well as by the elongation of the isoseismal lines in the direction perpendicular to this band.
— from A Study of Recent Earthquakes by Charles Davison

The proposed reform of the election laws for the Bohemian Landtag (1908) (which provides for universal suffrage, although not equal suffrage) would disfranchise the women outside Prague.
— from The Modern Woman's Rights Movement: A Historical Survey by Käthe Schirmacher

This is the sum which will probably be realized in England, and is only equal to 1 s. 6 d. per rupee, on the eighty lacs subscribed.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 08 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

In immediate contrast with the foregoing application of a critical method to the historic documents of Christianity, it is beautiful to see the same genius turned with eager joy to a practical recommendation of the experimental life of Christianity.
— from Studies of Christianity; Or, Timely Thoughts for Religious Thinkers by James Martineau

[79] A physical representation of the exhortation, “Lift up your hearts!”
— from Royal Winchester: Wanderings in and about the Ancient Capital of England by A. G. K. (Alfred Guy Kingan) L'Estrange