"The O'Connor Don," however, is in the unique position of bearing supporters by unquestionable right, inasmuch as the late Queen Victoria, on the occasion of her last visit to Dublin, issued her Royal Warrant conferring the right upon him.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

From the slope below us rose the voices of the Indians as they laughed and sang.
— from The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

We saw, however, that Common Sense sometimes bids us refuse obedience to bad laws, because “we ought to obey God rather than men” (though there seems to be no clear intuition as to the kind or degree of badness that justifies resistance); and further allows us, in special emergencies, to violate rules generally good, for “necessity has no law,” and “ salus populi suprema lex .”
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

My whole soul was so bent upon reaching Hampton that I did not have time to cherish any bitterness toward the hotel-keeper.
— from Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington

Shops were closed at nightfall, and, the streets being until recent times ill-lit or unlit, passengers or their attendants carried lanterns.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

Aunt was tired and went to sleep, but uncle read his guide-book, and wouldn't be astonished at anything.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

We will, however, since you so bid us, refrain from actual fighting, but we will make serviceable suggestions to the Argives, that they may not all of them perish in your displeasure.
— from The Iliad by Homer

Not one statement shall be made which cannot be supported by unimpeachable reference: not one word shall be uttered which I am not as willing to print as to speak.
— from The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes: An Index of the Project Gutenberg Editions by Oliver Wendell Holmes

I then expressed a wish that this appropriation had been more specific; but upon reflection, I do not see how it could have been made much more so, unless we had possessed the gift of prophecy.
— from Life of James Buchanan, Fifteenth President of the United States. v. 1 (of 2) by George Ticknor Curtis

Be mute every string, and be hush'd every tone, That shall bid us remember the fame that is flown.
— from Waverley; Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since — Volume 1 by Walter Scott

In America at least the authorities are beginning to realize the truth of Froebel’s words as to the importance of playgrounds, and actual experiment has shown that he was right in saying that “even the plays should be under right guidance,” not for purposes of repression, but for the encouragement of real play which “must necessarily break forth in joy from within.” “Justice, moderation, self-control, truthfulness, loyalty, brotherly feeling and again, strict impartiality—who, when he approaches a group of boys engaged in such games, could fail to catch the fragrance of these delicious blossomings of the heart and mind and of a firm will; not to mention the beautiful, though perhaps less fragrant, blossoms of courage, perseverance, resolution, prudence, together with the severe elimination of indolent indulgence?
— from Froebel as a pioneer in modern psychology by E. R. (Elsie Riach) Murray

These two, who gave to her, the orphaned vagrant, surrounded by unbridled recklessness, physical and mental misery, a proof that there was still in marriage real love and a happiness secure from every assault, were now, before her eyes, placing themselves on the same plane with the miserable couples whom she met everywhere.
— from The Complete Short Works of Georg Ebers by Georg Ebers

He seemed bent upon rejoining instanter this whole family in the upper air.
— from The Apple-Tree Table, and Other Sketches by Herman Melville