Hence many were respited from execution, but, though they were not put to death, as much as possible was done to render their lives miserable, many of them having their ears cut off, their noses slit, their right eyes put out, their limbs rendered useless by dreadful dislocations, and their flesh seared in conspicuous places with red-hot irons.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

In that far-off time superstition clung easily round every person or thing that was at all unwonted, or even intermittent and occasional merely, like the visits of the pedlar or the knife-grinder.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot

Then he holds his candle before a richly engraved picture of the Saviour, done on a messy slab of gold, and wonderfully rayed and starred with diamonds, which hangs above the hole within the altar, and his solemnity changes to lively admiration.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

But the real epic pathos of the whole thing was that Mr. Taft was actually sincere.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

It was built in a manner common at the South; a wide verandah of two stories running round every part of the house, into which every outer door opened, the lower tier being supported by brick pillars.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

The scattered and desultory warfare of the Barbarians, who infested the land and sea, deprived him of the glory of a signal victory; but the prudent spirit, and consummate art, of the Roman general, were displayed in the operations of two campaigns, which successively rescued every part of the province from the hands of a cruel and rapacious enemy.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

I read every part of them—the houses to let; things lost or stolen; auction sales, and all.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

In a similar vein has the celebrated John Bunyan, the author of the " Pilgrim's Progress " proceeded in his " Temple of Solomon Spiritualized " to refer every part of that building to a symbolic meaning, selecting, however, the church, or congregation of good men, rather than the individual man, as the object of the symbolism.
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

The corner-stone of the present church edifice was laid by the Rev. Edward Phillips on the 23d of June, 1825, and the building was consecrated by Bishop Bowen of South Carolina in the year 1833.
— from The History of Saint Augustine, Florida by William W. (William Whitwell) Dewhurst

We must be content with noting that, in order to give it any appearance of validity, it is necessary to reject every part of the New Testament which does not happen to agree with it.
— from The Books of the New Testament by Leighton Pullan

They were respectable enough people over the way, but of low birth, and she, as a woman of a more highly-cultured mind, could not associate with them.
— from The Song of Songs by Hermann Sudermann

“We must assume,” he adds by way of explanation, “that each single part of the body at each developmental stage is, from the first, represented in the germ-cell as distinct particles of matter, which will reproduce each part of the body at its appropriate stage as their turn for development arrives.”
— from An Examination of Weismannism by George John Romanes

They will sacrifice economic advantages and benefits and adversely affect their utility outcome in the name of principles, to quell psychological tensions and pressures, as part of obsessive-compulsive rituals, to maintain a false grandiose image, to go on living in a land of fantasy, to resolve a psychodynamic conflict and, generally, to cope with personal problems which have nothing to do with the idealized rational economic player of the theories.
— from After the Rain : how the West lost the East by Samuel Vaknin

“Must the war, which for four years has ravaged every part of the world, be eternal?
— from The Dawn of the XIXth Century in England: A social sketch of the times by John Ashton

The fire from the batteries of the besieged reached every part of the columns of the assailants which had emerged from the swamp, and did great execution.
— from The Life of George Washington, Vol. 3 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States by John Marshall

At the very time when Domitian, confined to his palace, felt the terrors which he inspired, his legions, under the command of the virtuous Agricola, defeated the collected force of the Caledonians, at the foot of the Grampian Hills; and his fleets, venturing to explore an unknown and dangerous navigation, displayed the Roman arms round every part of the island.
— from History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 by Edward Gibbon

Probably as many as a hundred are to-day in operation, or will be when the recently expressed purpose of the Board of Education to make the kindergarten a part of the public school system has been fully carried out.
— from The Children of the Poor by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis