And now we rank among the free—"Our country yet remains:" Again we seek our native rights by God and Nature given— A people's right unto their soil from us unjustly riven.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 476, February 12, 1831 by Various

It was as fruitless as reading a Wordsworth sonnet on nature to a rhinoceros; for all he did was to grunt.
— from From Pillar to Post: Leaves from a Lecturer's Note-Book by John Kendrick Bangs

She represented a whole set of new and undetermined values for which he had no precedents, and unlike every woman he had known—including his wife—she had an integrity of her own, seemingly beyond the reach of all influences economic and social.
— from The Dwelling Place of Light — Complete by Winston Churchill

The latter are not as numerous as when Spartacus collected an army of them which defeated Roman armies within sight of Naples.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 04, May 1884, No. 8 by Chautauqua Institution

The great fundamental difference between cancer and any infection lies in the fact that, in an infection, the inflammations and poisonings and local swellings are due solely and invariably to the presence and multiplication of the invading germs, which may be recovered in millions from every organ and region affected, while swellings or new masses produced are merely the outpouring of the body-cells in an attempt to attack and overwhelm these invaders.
— from Preventable Diseases by Woods Hutchinson

"Amusing contrast is seen in the Riviera and winter sports outfits now on view, with filmy lace, shimmering silks, and glowing velvets on the one hand and thick wool and the stoutest of boots on the other."
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, December 8, 1920 by Various

This plover is found throughout temperate North America to Newfoundland and Manitoba, nests throughout range, and winters south of New England to Bermuda, the West Indies, Central and South America.
— from Birds and All Nature, Vol 7, No. 2, February 1900 Illustrated by Color Photography by Various

She turned off alone to take the way to the high road, and went softly on, no longer, certainly, in the momentary spirits with which she had shaken hands with the wind, and skipped down the mountain; but feeling, and thankful that she felt, a cheerful patience to tread the dusty highway of life.
— from Queechy, Volume II by Susan Warner

I would a'most as soon put down my rifle and walk straight out now and let them shoot me, if I knew they would do it without any of their devilish tortures, as go on night after night, expecting to be woke up with their war-yell in my ears.
— from In the Heart of the Rockies: A Story of Adventure in Colorado by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

It did explain why he felt tongue-tied when he wished to be romantic, and even why he recorded a weird sequence of notes on a tape recorder.
— from The Wailing Asteroid by Murray Leinster