Though the Socialists were not supposed to know "the boundaries of nations, sects or factions," but were to "speak one voice and work together as one man for one purpose," the Spartacans, it seems, would be better off if they had not only an imaginary boundary to separate barbarians of their type from the rest of civilization, but a barrier of mountains with heights towering in the clouds to divide Germany into two parts, in one of which the Spartacans could rest in peace, safe from the attacks of their beloved brethren of the Ebert-Scheidemann group.
— from The Red Conspiracy by Joseph J. Mereto

my slumbering conscience rose in Puritan strength and asserted its rights to a hearing.
— from Penelope's Postscripts by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

The wit of our trenches in this war, especially perhaps among the Cockney and South country regiments, is pure Shakespeare.
— from England and the War by Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Sir

"We are now off the mouth of the Santa Cruz river in Patagonia," said Captain Barrington, "it is a good place to lie to.
— from The Boy Aviators' Polar Dash; or, Facing Death in the Antarctic by John Henry Goldfrap

In Sculpture follow Rysbrack 's chosen Rules; In Portrait seek for Amiconi 's Force: Humour in Hogarth :
— from The Art of Architecture: A Poem in Imitation of Horace's Art of Poetry by John Gwynn