For Man dethron'd forge hen-peck fetters; How Xerxes, that abandoned Tory, Thought cutting throats was reaping glory, Until the stubborn Whigs of Sparta Taught him great Nature's Magna Charta; How mighty Rome her fiat hurl'd Resistless o'er a bowing world, And, kinder than they did desire, Polish'd mankind with sword and fire; With much, too tedious to relate, Of ancient and of modern date, But ending still, how Billy Pitt (Unlucky boy!) with wicked wit, Has gagg'd old Britain, drain'd her coffer, As butchers bind and bleed a heifer, Thus wily Reynard by degrees, In kennel listening at his ease, Suck'd in a mighty stock of knowledge, As much as some folks at a College; Knew Britain's rights and constitution, Her aggrandisement, diminution, How fortune wrought us good from evil; Let no man, then, despise the Devil, As who should say, 'I never can need him,' Since we to scoundrels owe our freedom.
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

"Probably he did it to ease his mind after creating you," he replied, and continued humming a dance air.
— from In Hostile Red by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

But he set his face resolutely against class hatred, against dreams of violence and revenge, against social revolutions which worked hardship to the individual.
— from The Life of Mazzini by Bolton King

And whenever the need for change or the desire for a drink has struck him, he has drawn his pay, strapped his bed roll, and cheerfully hiked away down the long and dusty trail.
— from The Killer by Stewart Edward White

The doctrine of that body on the prerogative of the church to ordain rites and ceremonies has a double effect.
— from A Bible History of Baptism by Samuel J. (Samuel John) Baird

We soon reached a considerable hill and dismounted.
— from Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War by G. F. R. (George Francis Robert) Henderson

After a recent unavoidable association with the border inhabitants of Western Missouri and Iowa, the vile scum which our own society, to apply the words of an admirable gentleman and eminent divine, [C] "like the great ocean washes upon its frontier shores," I can scarcely describe the gratification I felt in associating again with persons who were almost all of Eastern American origin,—persons of refined and cleanly habits and decent language,—and in observing their peculiar and interesting mode of life;—while every day seemed to bring with it its own especial incident, fruitful in the illustration of habits and character.
— from The Mormons: A Discourse Delivered Before the Historical Society of Pennsylvania by Thomas L. (Thomas Leiper) Kane

The extraordinary activity that characterized the second year of the war, when the insurgents invaded even the thitherto unharmed fields of Pinar del Rio and carried havoc and destruction up to the walls of the city of Havana itself, had relapsed into a dogged struggle in the central and eastern provinces.
— from Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents William McKinley, Messages, Proclamations, and Executive Orders Relating to the Spanish-American War by William McKinley

Those who read and converse have a double chance of correcting their errors.
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 01 Moral Tales by Maria Edgeworth

That evening they were the guests of honor at the Unitarian Club dinner at the Palace Hotel, Miss Anthony responding to the toast, "The Rights and Privileges of Man;" Miss Shaw to "The Manly Man;" Rev. A. C. Hirst and Dr. Horatio Stebbins to "The Rights and Privileges of Woman" and "The Womanly Woman;" and the evening was a lively one.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper