Rev. Elijah Lovejoy, a Presbyterian clergyman of Maine who published a periodical against slavery.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

; with Introductory Note by Mr. R. E. Leader and photographic reproduction of early 14th century Derbyshire charter. Published June 1912 .
— from Sheffield and its Environs 13th to the 17th century A descriptive catalogue of land charters and other documents forming the Brooke Taylor collection by T. Walter (Thomas Walter) Hall

She tried to read—it was no use; she tried to spin-her fingers trembled; she sorted the letters in the office again, and rearranged every letter and parcel and paper in its little pigeonhole—then did it all over again.
— from The Right of Way — Complete by Gilbert Parker

Then, after a round of golf or a game of tennis for those who require “exposure,” like a photograph, before their proper image reappears, or an hour or so in an armchair in a well-shaded light for those to whom, like a mushroom, darkness and warmth are necessary for their {95} morning development, the Saturday-till-Monday Englishman finds that the burden of life is light again.
— from Robin Linnet by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

4. A clause in the preamble of this act bears a significantly Erastian complexion: come seinte Eglise estoit founde en estat de prelacie deins le royaulme Dengleterre par le dit Roi et ses progenitours, et countes, barons, et nobles de ce Royaulme et lours ancestres, pour eux et le poeple enfourmer de la lei Dieu.
— from History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. Vol. II. by James Anthony Froude

The lady sat looking about her with a quick restless expression, like a prisoner alert to escape; she was tied to her chair—not by cords—by the failure of muscular strength; but perhaps she did not know that.
— from A Dozen Ways Of Love by L. (Lily) Dougall

[Pg 42] "As sure as fate," replied the officer, nodding to a friend who was passing down the street on the other side of the way,—"and if your establishment an't large enough, and powerful enough to resist 'em—" "Large and powerful enough!"
— from Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi by Joseph Grimaldi

In the autumn of 1869 Eugene entered the sophomore class at Knox College, Galesburg, Ill., where Professor John William Burgess, who had been chosen as his guardian, held the chair of logic, rhetoric, English literature, and political science.
— from Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 1 by Slason Thompson

When the seats of honor were occupied, Thrasabad again appeared before them, and, bowing, said: "The Roman emperors long ago prohibited contests between gladiators and fights between animals.
— from The Scarlet Banner by Felix Dahn