No country, however rich, can permanently afford to have quartered upon its revenue a class which declines to do the duty which it is called upon to perform.
— from Lloyd George: The Man and His Story by Frank Dilnot

St. Peter , whom the Roman Catholics place at the head of the list of bishops of Rome, did undoubtedly perform miracles; but
— from The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together with Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales by James (Archaeologist) Grant

It was a monument raised by superstition, for the Pawnees never undertake an expedition against the savages who may be hostile to their tribe, or against the wild beasts of the forest, without commencing the chase, or war, by some religious ceremony, performed amidst these heaps of bones.
— from Flagg's The Far West, 1836-1837, part 2; and De Smet's Letters and Sketches, 1841-1842 by Pierre-Jean de Smet

The Roman Catholic prelates, and the higher class of the Roman Catholic clergy—most of whom, greatly to their credit, exerted themselves to check this fearful progress of wickedness—found their denunciations unheeded; while O'Connell, in his place in the House of Commons, used language which to an ignorant and ferocious peasantry looked almost like a justification of it, affirming it to be caused wholly by the "unjust and ruinous policy of the government" in refusing to abolish tithes.
— from The Constitutional History of England from 1760 to 1860 by Charles Duke Yonge

At the sight of this royal child, proclaimed, at the hour of his birth, future monarch of a great empire, and now entering upon his adolescence in exile, this reflection naturally presents itself: How if he had never been born?
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 19, April 1874‐September 1874 by Various

And he had obeyed orders to such good purpose that while Johnson's force lay idle at Lake George he had reached Crown Point at the head of nearly four thousand men, regulars, Canadians, and Indians.
— from With Rogers on the Frontier: A Story of 1756 by J. Macdonald (James Macdonald) Oxley

Secondly, they were dressed like Russians, [400] in long, grey, shabby redingotes, what the Russians call padevki , and their hair, allowed to grow long, was closely cropped at the ends just over the neck, where it hung in a bunch.
— from The Puppet Show of Memory by Maurice Baring

" She sank into one of the numerous valanced rockers conveniently placed about the house, and held out her arms.
— from Elizabeth, Her Folks by Barbara Kay

Finally, he reached Columbia, Pennsylvania, and there he had the happiness to learn, that the mountain which at first had tried his faith so severely, was removed, and friendly hands were reached out and a more speedy and comfortable mode of travel advised.
— from The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. by William Still

Now it chanced that there was a property chair used in this play of remarkably comfortable proportions, and the Honorable Bertie being long and lazy invariably lounged at his ease in this chair between the acts, for he had no change of dress and no opportunity of amusing himself with Ivy just in the intervals because she happened to have rather elaborate changes.
— from Wayfaring Men: A Novel by Edna Lyall