“Learn from Perez which ranch of General Estaban Terain shelters the political prisoners taken from the district of Altar,” suggested Kit.
— from The Treasure Trail: A Romance of the Land of Gold and Sunshine by Marah Ellis Ryan

The shutting off of the normal German export to France and Mediterranean countries, the occupation of the French and Belgian coal fields by the Germans, and the partial restriction of German exports to Scandinavian countries, resulted in Europe's absorbing most of the British coal available for export, and in addition requiring coal from the United States.
— from The Economic Aspect of Geology by C. K. (Charles Kenneth) Leith

The best thing at Shirburn was almost opposite the castle entrance—a narrow strip of land raised above the road, and protected from it by a row of goodly elm trees, so that I walked between a high hedge and them in a private coolness and green gloom as of an airy church about a hundred yards long.
— from The Icknield Way by Edward Thomas

From that era, it is equally worthy of the attention of those who wish for the reduction of great empires to small ones.
— from The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 1 of 2. From 1620-1816 by Egerton Ryerson

Under his teaching every true home is a symbol of the divine household; every true parent is a limited representative of God; every true son is an example of the filial spirit that is [Pg 98] religion.
— from The Bible and Life by Edwin Holt Hughes

It was odd—once upon a time she had known exactly what to say to the man of the moment, whoever he was, and whatever kind of talk he required; she had even, in the difficult days before her marriage, reeled off glibly enough the sort of lime-light sentimentality that plunged poor Fred Gillow into such speechless beatitude.
— from The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton