But the scheme of the junto under consideration, not only strikes a palsy into every nerve of our free constitution, but in the same degree benumbs and stupefies the whole executive power: rendering government in all its grand operations languid, uncertain, ineffective; making ministers fearful of attempting, and incapable of executing any useful plan of domestic arrangement, or of foreign politics.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

If a person could have ascended high enough in an air plane and could have had the vision to have seen the whole United States, he would have perceived a most wonderful sight—a hundred million people yelling and singing and parading in every nook and corner of this great country.
— from Winning a Cause: World War Stories by John G. (John Gilbert) Thompson

The Servile State is a study of the tendency of modern legislation in industrial society and particularly in England not towards Socialism but towards the establishment of two legally separate classes, one a small class in possession of the means of production, the other a much larger class subjected to compulsory labour under the guarantee of a legal sufficiency to maintain themselves.
— from Law and Laughter by D. Macleod (Donald Macleod) Malloch

That there are such a people is evident, not only by their irregular lives, but by the manifest testimony of the Word.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

That these speculations should become the favourite topics of such a period, is extremely natural.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 15 Forming A Complete History Of The Origin And Progress Of Navigation, Discovery, And Commerce, By Sea And Land, From The Earliest Ages To The Present Time by Robert Kerr

Furthermore, since the facts indicate that male-producing and female-producing spermatozoa are present in equal numbers, it follows that practically there is an even chance that an embryo will develop into a boy or a girl.
— from The Prospective Mother, a Handbook for Women During Pregnancy by J. Morris (Josiah Morris) Slemons

To the forensic reasoner, to the practical master-worker in whatever sphere, such a power is essential not less than to the ideal artist or to the weaver of fictions.
— from Essays Æsthetical by George Henry Calvert

Some of the Leghorn pullets, which, unfortunately, could fly high, had escaped from the yard, notwithstanding the wire netting which enclosed them, and had been having a fine time scratching and pecking in entirely new hunting-grounds, when Bob happened along.
— from Harper's Round Table, September 10, 1895 by Various

Each had a secret unconfessed, Each sound a promise, in each nest.
— from Songs of Two by Arthur Sherburne Hardy

There 's not so splendid a place in England, nor has it ever been my fortune to witness so much beauty.”
— from The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Charles James Lever