Our printing-house often wanted sorts, and there was no letter-founder in America; I had seen types cast at James's in London, but without much attention to the manner; however, I now contrived a mould, made use of the letters we had as puncheons, struck the mattrices in lead, and thus supply'd in a pretty tolerable way all deficiencies.
— from Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

He and the Secretary were first cousins; of the same stock as the well-known Bishop Jarvis of Connecticut, and the Church Historian, Dr. Samuel Farmer Jarvis.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

If I live and God is good, there will be a price upon my head, for I am a Son of the Charm—I, Kim.' A very few white people, but many Asiatics, can throw themselves into a mazement as it were by repeating their own names over and over again to themselves, letting the mind go free upon speculation as to what is called personal identity.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

The overwhelming sentiment of the Eighth Army Corps when we took the Philippines was against taking them; and those who had kept informed knew that the Senate had ratified the treaty by a majority only one more than enough to squeeze it through, the vote having been 57 to 27, at least 56 being thus indispensable to make the necessary constitutional two-thirds of the 84 votes cast; and that Wall Street and the White Man’s Burden or land-grabbing contingent—“Philanthropy and Five per cent,” as Secretary of the Treasury Lyman J. Gage put it at the time—were responsible for these shambles Mr. Bass describes.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

The second division (2) includes the remainder of the second and the whole of the third and fourth books, which are mainly occupied with the construction of the first State and the first education.
— from The Republic by Plato

8 Fancy having documents like the foregoing handed you with ever-increasing regularity as you sauntered, morning after morning, from your bath to your coffee and rolls, preparatory to the daily sifting of incidents such as that which included the burning of the American flag on the head of the municipal representative of American authority already mentioned, and other like acts of poor misguided peasants stirred up by trifling [ 465 ] scamps representing the dregs of insurrection.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

Aramis therefore had written immediately to Marie Michon, the seamstress at Tours who had such fine acquaintances, to obtain from the queen authority for Mme.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

Let them once gain the step of being independent of the navy on board a ship, and they will soon have the other, and command us.
— from The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey

A large bird—an eagle—swept around in stately circles, spying at them with its sharp, fierce eyes.
— from The Quest The authorized translation from the Dutch of De kleine Johannes by Frederik van Eeden

Here the grounding is of white satin, as in the previous illustration, but the figures are worked on canvas separately, in fine petit-point {300} stitch, afterwards being cut away and placed on the white satin ground with a few silk stitches and the whole outlined with a fine black silk cord.
— from Chats on Old Lace and Needlework by Emily Leigh Lowes

He knew Clarendon's opinion of "the Lady," whose acquaintance the Chancellor shunned, and to whom he had forbidden his wife to show any civilities.
— from Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02 by Craik, Henry, Sir

A little more than half a century has passed since John Quincy Adams, unquestionably the best trained and most experienced American administrator who ever sat in the Presidency, undertook to establish in the United States almost precisely the same system as that which Great Britain now has.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. by Various

There stood the clear, benignant sun on the Apennine, and Somma and Ottayano and Vesuvius bloomed in peaceful splendor, and the world came slowly up after the sun with its mountains, islands, and coasts.
— from Titan: A Romance. v. 2 (of 2) by Jean Paul

Loved the people and their dialogue and their clothes and their mysterious errands and the shops full of goods and every shopper hunting for something for someone, every one of them part of a story that I would never be part of, but I could be next to the stories and that was enough.
— from Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow

[146] We praise and admire the strength and beauty of the men and women of ancient Greece; but we forget that it was not the climate of this beautiful country that had such a favorable influence upon the nature and development of its population, but the educational maxims that were consistently carried out by the state, and that were destined to combine beauty, strength and skill with mental sharpness and vigor.
— from Woman and Socialism by August Bebel

Some persons have such a taking way with them that "if you give them
— from Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various

France, with her traditions of Napoleon, Moreau, Ney, Berthier and others, with rare skill set about the work of perfecting an army under the tutelage and direction of Joffre and Foch.
— from History of the American Negro in the Great World War His Splendid Record in the Battle Zones of Europe; Including a Resume of His Past Services to his Country in the Wars of the Revolution, of 1812, the War of Rebellion, the Indian Wars on the Frontier, the Spanish-American War, and the Late Imbroglio With Mexico by William Allison Sweeney

That was the last word the Queen ever spoke, All the wisdom of the Court statesmen, all the proud, intellectual unbelief, all the cynical contempt for the weaknesses of intellect which allow ignorant people to believe their destiny linked with that of some other and higher life—all that Bolingbroke, Chesterfield, Walpole, would have taught and sworn oaths for—all was mocked by that one little word, "pray," which came last from the lips of Queen Caroline.
— from A History of the Four Georges, Volume II by Justin McCarthy