Surely, there is in some sort a right in every suit; either a right of equity, if it be a suit of controversy, or a right of desert, if it be a suit of petition.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

The chances of gain, as a premium for the risks involved, explain satisfactorily enough the action of the gambler when he enters into a game of roulette or faro.
— from Socialism: A Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles by John Spargo

What, moreover, can be more agreeable, than for a man to read his own biography, especially when drawn by the partial hand of friendship, and retouched in each successive edition, as new circumstances require, new virtues are disclosed, and new deeds demand a record?
— from Ups and Downs in the Life of a Distressed Gentleman by William L. (William Leete) Stone

From this, and from the whole tenor of what has been extracted from the Diary, will be seen in what his ministry consisted, and what was the call and the power which was required in every successive exercise of it.
— from Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley, Minister of the Gospel by John Yeardley

So triumph ever shall renew itself; Ever shall end in efforts higher yet, Ever begin ... Con.
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition by Robert Browning

They used to play on the racecourse in Elizabeth Street every evening.
— from The Golden South: Memories of Australian Home Life from 1843 to 1888 by Kathleen Lambert

Ferdinand, grandduke of Tuscany, younger brother to the emperor Francis II., was compelled to relinquish his hereditary possessions in Italy,[12] and received in exchange Salzburg, Eichstädt, and Passau.
— from Germany from the Earliest Period, Volume 4 by Wolfgang Menzel

It is one of the most beautiful rocks I ever saw, exhibiting a succession of ledges, displayed horizontally with wonderful regularity, but of an infinite variety of shades and colors, such as is generally observed in cliffs of limestone.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXIV, No. 1, January 1849 by Various

"That numerous members of the Church of England,... not dissenting from the latest reformation in England, Scotland, etc., were detained from the seals of the covenant of free grace, as it was supposed they will not take these Churches' covenants."
— from The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 1 of 2. From 1620-1816 by Egerton Ryerson