God breathes, not speaks, his verdicts, felt not heard, Passed on successively to each court I call Man's conscience, custom, manners, all that make More and more effort to promulgate, mark God's verdict in determinable words, Till last come human jurists—solidify Fluid result,—what's fixable lies forged, Statute,—the residue escapes in fume, Yet hangs aloft, a cloud, as palpable To the finer sense as word the legist welds.
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition by Robert Browning

On motion, the Senate proceeded to ascertain the classes in which the Senators of the State of Ohio should be inserted, as the constitution and rule heretofore adopted prescribe; and it was ordered, that two lots, No. 2 and a blank, be by the Secretary rolled up and put in the ballot box; and it was understood that the Senator who should draw the lot No. 2 should be inserted in the class of Senators whose terms of service respectively expire in four years from and after the third day of March, 1803, in order to equalize the classes.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 3 (of 16) by United States. Congress

" Soufflez the fourpenny piece," said Johnnie in a burst of reckless extravagance; "I forgive you this once.
— from Fated to Be Free: A Novel by Jean Ingelow

“Now I want to get rope enough in for you to take hold.”
— from The Crystal Hunters: A Boy's Adventures in the Higher Alps by George Manville Fenn

As for the risk, estimate it for yourself.’
— from Armadale by Wilkie Collins

I have said thus much at present in order to remove extraneous impressions from your minds.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

The system is closely jointed and well administered, but it possesses a very centralized character, which interferes to some extent with flexible working, and with the progress of necessary repairs, especially in foreign yards.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

Reserve this for learned men, and let them rather extort it from you, than you be too willing to display it.
— from The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant Being a collection of select pieces from our best modern writers, calculated to eradicate vulgar prejudices and rusticity of manners, improve the understanding, rectify the will, purify the passions, direct the minds of youth to the pursuit of proper objects, and to facilitate their reading, writing, and speaking the English language with elegance and propriety by John Hamilton Moore

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— from Hosiery Manufacture by Davis, William, M.A.

My horse behaved very well—just whirling around a few times—but Faye was kept busy a minute or two by his, for the poor horse was awfully frightened, and lunged and reared and snorted; but I knew that he could not unseat Faye, so I rather enjoyed it, for you know I had wanted to go back a little!
— from Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888 by Frances Marie Antoinette Mack Roe