She had once read the expression, "the authentic voice of happiness," and it had lived hauntingly in her memory.
— from The Precipice: A Novel by Elia Wilkinson Peattie

Under the hand of God, which in the depths of his soul he often recognized, the Emperor Napoleon believed himself to be the arbiter of the grand problem of the independence of Poland.
— from World's Best Histories — Volume 7: France by François Guizot

He could not make up his mind whether to stay here or return to England.
— from Mushrooms on the Moor by Frank Boreham

But in order that this may be so it is necessary that the object of such a wonderful devotion be alive, that he be present and visible; or, if he be absent, that there should still exist some hope of renewing the exquisite intimacy of the past.
— from Famous Affinities of History: The Romance of Devotion. Volume 1 by Lyndon Orr

He wished merely to make Ireland the stepping- stone to secure his own return to England, while the representatives of Ireland were determined to provide for the welfare and independence of their own country.
— from History of the Catholic Church from the Renaissance to the French Revolution — Volume 2 by James MacCaffrey

Nothing can be more beautiful, more soothing under the immediate influence of sorrow, or at all times more suggestive of tranquil, yet deep religious emotion, than the village churchyard, where the clergyman, the squire, or the peasant, pass weekly or more often by the quiet and hallowed graves of their kindred and friends, to the house of prayer, and where hereafter they expect themselves to be laid at rest under a stone perhaps, on which is expressed the simple hope of resurrection to eternal life, and where all is so peaceful, that the tomb may almost seem as if it might last undisturbed to that time.
— from A supplementary report on the results of a special inquiry into the practice of interment in towns. by Edwin Chadwick

Have not reactionary States the same faculty of refusing the extradition of reactionary political criminals as [Pg 420] free States have of refusing the extradition of progressive political criminals?
— from International Law. A Treatise. Volume 1 (of 2) Peace. Second Edition by L. (Lassa) Oppenheim

Since his eyes began to fail, he had cultivated the salutary habit of resting them every half-hour or so.
— from The House of Mystery: An Episode in the Career of Rosalie Le Grange, Clairvoyant by Will Irwin

Some one would talk, and in that strange inscrutable fashion scandal has of reaching the ends of the earth, the story would eventually arrive home; and there, for all the professions of friendship, it would find admittance.
— from Parrot & Co. by Harold MacGrath