[299] Iam tanta religio est sepulcrorum, ut extra sacra et gentem inferi fas negent esse; idque apud majores nostros A. Torquatus in gente Popilia judicavit.—
— from Ancient Society Or, Researches in the Lines of Human Progress from Savagery, through Barbarism to Civilization by Lewis Henry Morgan

To reinstate existing securities upon equitable terms in their order of priority; ( e ) To consolidate and unify the system (so far as practicable) and thus to save large annual expense.
— from Railroad Reorganization by Stuart Daggett

Chapter XXI Once more Ronald Earle stood upon English shores; once again he heard his mother tongue spoken all around him, once again he felt the charm of quiet, sweet English scenery.
— from Dora Thorne by Charlotte M. Brame

The product must obviously be one of the most rugged, virile, unconquerable races ever seen upon earth.
— from The Great Boer War by Arthur Conan Doyle

The history of the native races, so far as ascertainable, begins with the advent of the whites, and even after their advent remains extremely shadowy until, early in this century, the onward march of settlement gave the Dutch and English settlers the means of becoming better acquainted with their black neighbours.
— from Impressions of South Africa by Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount

It was placed in charge of the Ursuline Sisterhood, where it has remained ever since undisturbed, except by a controversy in regard to the propriety of the relic, in which the good bishop ambled about in the most ambiguous manner, the only clearly defined portion of his dissertation being the one wherein he laments “the decadence of that truly Christian spirit which animated the laity of the middle ages with a radiant zeal.
— from History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance by P. C. (Peter Charles) Remondino

"The increasing number of Americans who come through England," he wrote, "most of them on their way to France, but some of them also to serve in England, give much pleasure to the British public—nurses, doctors, railway engineers, sawmill units, etc.
— from The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II by Burton Jesse Hendrick