During his whole life Cruys preserved a warm affection for his native land; hence it was natural that the Scandinavian colony in St. Petersburg gathered about him.
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen

Right so came in Sir Persides and Sir Tristram and so they did fare that they put the King of Northgalis aback.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

The absence of a central government will not, then, as has often been asserted, prove the destruction of the republics of the New World; far from supposing that the American governments are not sufficiently centralized, I shall prove hereafter that they are too much so.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

A sincere Christian is shocked page 378 p. 378 and pained, and loses his temper.
— from The Religious Life of London by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie

Another of the specific objections urged by Mr. Spencer against the doctrine of special creations is so put that it is manifestly directed against one of the positions assumed by the representatives of the current theology.
— from Creation or Evolution? A Philosophical Inquiry by George Ticknor Curtis

As we have spoken of the period of the Judges as corresponding to the Dark Ages of Christianity, so the story of Samson corresponds in some points with the mediæval history of St. Christopher.
— from Woman in Sacred History A Series of Sketches Drawn from Scriptural, Historical, and Legendary Sources by Harriet Beecher Stowe

It is one of those extravagances which afterward became so common in Spanish poetry, when Gongora introduced the estilo culto , as it was called.
— from Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition by William Cullen Bryant

What a richness must clothe even the language of sermons composed in such pleasant shades—the cool wind loaded with fragrance, leaping from among the trees upon the brow, and playing refreshingly among the hair!
— from The South-West, by a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 2 by J. H. (Joseph Holt) Ingraham

This attitude is well justified by school conditions in some places; but where the schools are good, it ignores not only the obvious advantages of school life quite aside from instruction in written language, but also the almost complete absence of strain afforded by modern methods.
— from The Montessori Method Scientific Pedagogy as Applied to Child Education in 'The Children's Houses' with Additions and Revisions by the Author by Maria Montessori

50.— "That a virgin should conceive is so possible to God's power, that it is possible in nature, say the Arabians."
— from Notes and Queries, Number 51, October 19, 1850 by Various

“Ladies of Charles the Second’s Court,” I said, “painted by Sir Peter Lely.”
— from The Story of Antony Grace by George Manville Fenn