Bob has done more to set the public right on this important point of blazonry, than the whole College of Heralds.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

That pay roll of theirs is preposterous.
— from The Film Mystery by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve

The bedchamber émeute arrested the formation of the Peel ministry; and it was at least surmised, that it was in no small measure to save Lord Auckland, and to escape the disgrace of a public reversal of their Indian policy, that the Whigs again took the reins of government.
— from History of the War in Afghanistan, Vol. 1 (of 3) Third Edition by Kaye, John William, Sir

Some find it very hard to grasp this great truth; but there it stands plainly revealed on the inspired page, not to be reasoned about, or submitted in any way to the human judgment, but simply to be believed.
— from Notes on the Book of Deuteronomy, Volume II by Charles Henry Mackintosh

He therefore contented himself, for the present, with laying waste the country round about it, destroying every possible receptacle of the invaders, poisoning the wells, and doubly fortifying the only weak point in his fortifications.
— from Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 2 by Leigh Hunt

On the perfect regeneration of the injured parts depends the final effect of the acute disease upon the organism.
— from Nature Cure: Philosophy & Practice Based on the Unity of Disease & Cure by Henry Lindlahr

This effect of imagination, of both the male and female parent, seems to have been attended to in very early times; Jacob is said not only to have placed rods of trees, in part stripped of their bark, so as to appear spotted, but also to have placed spotted lambs before the flocks, at the time of their copulation.
— from Zoonomia; Or, the Laws of Organic Life, Vol. I by Erasmus Darwin

The District Attorney's office is, indeed, pressing representatives of those interests pretty close to the doors of the penitentiary, although the District Attorney is handicapped by laws for which San Francisco is largely responsible, because of the character of the men whom session after session she has sent to the Legislature.
— from Story of the Session of the California Legislature of 1909 by Franklin Hichborn

Conditions of increased moisture would have made the now parched regions of the Iranian plateau an exceedingly rich and favored region.
— from The New Stone Age in Northern Europe by John M. (John Mason) Tyler

However, we are not permitted humbly to imitate the prudent reticence of the Indian philosophers.
— from Falling in Love; With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science by Grant Allen