The ranks of this noble body of statesmen and reformers are now gradually diminishing.
— from The Constitutional Development of Japan 1853-1881 Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, Ninth Series by T. (Toyokichi) Iyenaga

They have been tested again and again, and have passed the ordeal well: not only under fire, but the more nerve-straining duties of scouting and reconnoitring and nocturnal guard.
— from The Triumph of Hilary Blachland by Bertram Mitford

The Bible, and Shakspere, and Rofudingding, a New Guinea poet, who ate men for his dinner when he had a chance, and, when he had finished, sang lyrics that stir the hearts of all his fellow-islanders to this day,—he lived a hundred years ago,—dealt with men and women; that is why all are as impressive to-day as they were when originally composed.
— from Phyllis of Philistia by Frank Frankfort Moore

Here he for the first time experienced such a reverse as no general ever yet sustained.
— from Narrative of the Most Remarkable Events Which Occurred in and near Leipzig Immediately Before, During, and Subsequent to, the Sanguinary Series of Engagements Between the Allied Armies of the French, from the 14th to the 19th October, 1813 by Frederic Shoberl

Beulah remarked: “It does seem to me that there is some archaic rule about not going beyond the gates without a chaperone, but we each have one.
— from Sisters by Grace May North

Sarcasm, satire, and ridicule are not given in vain.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 17 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

Realizing the lack of communication between the extreme northern section of Montreal and the outlying parishes, he established an omnibus route in 1860 between Mile End, Terrebonne, Sault au Récollet and New Glasgow, which he later sold to the Montreal Street Railway when it seemed feasible to extend the railway lines into that section.
— from Montreal from 1535 to 1914. Vol. 3. Biographical by William H. (William Henry) Atherton

One among the rest, no longer able to contain his grief, broke out into the following prayer: "Venus, queen of grace and beauty, joy of gods and men, who with a smile becalmest the seas, and renewest all nature; goddess, whom all the different species in the universe obey with joy and pleasure, grant I may at last obtain the object of my vows."
— from The Tatler, Volume 4 by Steele, Richard, Sir