‘They sleeping the same sleep that night ... were partly vexed with monstrous apparitions, and partly fainted, their heart failing them ...
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

Until there shall have been devised, and until opinion is willing to accept, some mode of plural voting which may assign to education as such the degree of superior influence due to it, and sufficient as a counterpoise to the numerical weight of the least educated class, for so long the benefits of completely universal suffrage can not be obtained without bringing with them, as it appears to me, more than equivalent evils.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

However popular he may have been on account of his courage and energy, he possessed vices which must always withhold from him the name of a good king, and which, in fact, rendered his reign a continuous scene of cruelty and oppression.
— from Parkhurst Boys, and Other Stories of School Life by Talbot Baines Reed

The excitement at last grew so high that personal violence was menaced, and some dozen of the more conservative members of the convention withdrew from the hall in which it was holding its sittings."
— from The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America 1638-1870 by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

Polychrome vases were made at the same time, some of them showing the utmost excellence of figure-drawing, and draperies of blue, green, or purple.
— from The Ceramic Art A Compendium of The History and Manufacture of Pottery and Porcelain by Jennie J. Young

One coat of stain, or two of Japalac or some similarly prepared varnish will make a very serviceable finish for camp purposes.
— from Carpentry and Woodwork by Edwin W. Foster

Work at Cannstadt progressed steadily, however, and many pleasure vehicles were made as well as small boats.
— from Automobile Biographies An Account of the Lives and the Work of Those Who Have Been Identified with the Invention and Development of Self-Propelled Vehicles on the Common Roads by Lyman Horace Weeks

“And so some special lands were granted at a place general, called Green’s Harbor, (Marshfield) where no allotments had been in the former division; a place very well meadowed and fit to keep and rear cattle, in good store.
— from Miles Standish, the Puritan Captain by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

A powerful virago, with muscular arms and a venomous tongue, would have kept him to his work and out of the taverns by the irresistible influence of words supported by finger-nails.
— from John Holdsworth, Chief Mate by William Clark Russell