The mild forgiving Cranmer would have interceded for all remission of punishment, had not Henry, pleased with the subsidy voted by parliament, let them be discharged; these nefarious men, however, again renewing their plots against Cranmer, fell victims to Henry's resentment, and Gardiner forever lost his confidence.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

I am the fugitive, all houseless roaming, The monster without air or rest, That like a cataract, down rocks and gorges foaming, Leaps, maddened, into the abyss's breast!
— from Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The general doctrine is that we are not entitled to recognize a government, far less to suggest one, until we see it established, and have presumptive evidence that it springs from a national source."
— from A Short History of English Liberalism by W. Lyon (Walter Lyon) Blease

Hand in mine, she showed me her collection of silver, gold, and ivory fans, fans from Egypt, Greece and India, arranged on her walls, some open, some in cases, flabellum with bone handles, Venetian lace fans, tomb fans with gold-encrusted ribs, a Greek fan like an acanthus leaf.
— from Voices from the Past by Paul Alexander Bartlett

Cowes and Ryde, with their regattas and generally festive look; Osborne, with its royal residence; Shanklin and Blackgang “Chines” ; Ventnor and Niton; Alum Bay and “the Needles,” will be familiar to the larger number of our readers.
— from The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 4 by Frederick Whymper

Reflected in the still water, they gave to the basin the appearance of a pleasure lake, gay with red and green fairy lamps.
— from Tell England A Study in a Generation by Ernest Raymond

The rest are good for little else than voting by either sitting down or standing up, but they are cold blooded and have broad shoulders."
— from The French Revolution - Volume 2 by Hippolyte Taine

You have really a genius for landscape, you know, Miss Darrell; you only want to be goaded into industry now and then by some severe critic like myself.
— from Milly Darrell by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Little did even he himself think when, after Sadowa, he accused the Emperor's Government of having left itself no blunder more to commit, that it had yet to perpetrate one crowning and gigantic mistake, and that one effect at least of this stupendous error would be to compel Paris to treat au sérieux , and as a supreme necessity, that system of defences so long regarded as good for little else than to remind the present generation that Louis Adolphe Thiers was once Prime Minister of France.
— from Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by Justin McCarthy

At the moment of blackest outlook the invalid received a generous friendly letter from Mr. Alfred Austin enclosing a substantial cheque.
— from William Sharp (Fiona Macleod): A Memoir Compiled by His Wife Elizabeth A. Sharp by Elizabeth A. (Elizabeth Amelia) Sharp