Already the tone of the entire Republican press is elevated.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

Tennyson had a wonderful way of transfusing, as it were, the essence of some beautiful passage in a Greek or Roman poet into English.
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

'Allow me to say, Miss Hale, that you were rather premature in expressing your disappointment.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Perpetual servile employments and subjection to an irrational society may render people incapable even of conceiving a liberal life.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Col. Denison's grandson, G. T. Denison tertius , is the author of a work on "Modern Cavalry, its Organisation, Armament and Employment in War," which has taken a recognized place in E [354] nglish strategetical literature.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

Republicans in religion and in politics, all their affections were engaged in favour of the revolutionary party in England, and they saw, in the restoration of monarchy, much more to fear than to hope for themselves.
— from The Life of George Washington: A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Editions by John Marshall

Towards the north, the nave is separated from the aisle by some of the largest and rudest piers I ever saw.
— from Account of a Tour in Normandy, Volume 2 by Dawson Turner

He quite admitted that they love their ‘Robbie Burns’ and their ‘Sir Walter’ with a patriotic enthusiasm that makes them extremely severe upon any unfortunate southron who ventures to praise either in their presence, but he claimed that the works of such great national poets as Dunbar, Henryson and Sir David Lyndsay are sealed books to the majority of the reading public in Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Glasgow, and that few Scotch people have any idea of the wonderful outburst of poetry that took place in their country during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, at a time when there was little corresponding development in England.
— from Reviews by Oscar Wilde

It is about sixteen inches long; its legs are short, its muzzle rather pointed, its ears small, its hair of a deep brown, and its claws black and sharp.
— from Buffon's Natural History. Volume 09 (of 10) Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &c. &c by Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de

If his mind takes the other bend and he shows any sympathy with any reactionary party in Europe, any party that wants to unsettle things as they now are, destroy this on your peril.
— from Miracle Gold: A Novel (Vol. 2 of 3) by Richard Dowling

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— from The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines by O'Rourke, John, Canon

Dirt and filth reigned paramount in every purlieu—mire to the ankle obstructed every gateway—and the rods of the wearied door-keepers were broken to splinters in their laudable endeavours to check the rush of the eager and greasy mob.
— from The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis, Sir

Be that as it may, the Saxons have actually in their hands, and are resolutely determined to keep, the ruling power in Europe, if not in the world.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 21, April, 1875, to September, 1875 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various