This movement was inaugurated two years after the war, with every Southern state in profound peace, and in a life and death struggle with nature to prevent famine.
— from The Leopard's Spots: A Romance of the White Man's Burden—1865-1900 by Dixon, Thomas, Jr.

The little drawings of “The Tune of the Seven Towers” in 1850, “Carlisle Tower,” “Fra Angelico 117 Painting,” and “Giorgione Painting” in 1853, “The Queen’s Page” (from Heine) in 1854, “Fra Pace” and “Monna Rosa” in 1856, “The Blue Closet,” “The Blue Bower,” “The Bower Garden,” and the first design for a favourite subject variously known as “Aurelia” and “Bonifazio’s” or “Fazio’s Mistress” in 1857; these, together with some further sketches for “La Belle Dame sans Merci,” a number of portraits of Miss Siddal, Browning, Tennyson, and Swinburne, whom he knew in 1857, are but a selection from the almost countless studies, in pencil, pen and ink, neutral tint, water-colour, and occasional oil, scattered over Rossetti’s transition period.
— from Dante Rossetti and the Pre-Raphaelite movement by Esther (of Hampstead) Wood

" It was very much as it is sometimes in playing poker, and I make this comparison knowing that hardly a person here will understand it.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 09 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Political by Robert Green Ingersoll

Korava society is purely patriarchal, and, in whatever division or sept of the caste a Korava may be born, he has to subordinate himself to the will of his elders or the leaders of his particular gang.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 3 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

Holiday however is a gross misnomer, for the days are spent in profane pleasures and in all sorts of sinful amusements.
— from Three Years in Tibet by Ekai Kawaguchi

This tenet includes the physical and cyber protection of the United States, its populace, property, and interests, as well as the protection of its democratic principles.
— from National Strategy for Combating Terrorism February 2003 by United States. Executive Office of the President

There is such a disposition in these days to deny that our Government was formed by, or is now in control of, the people, that a glance at the history of the days of General Shepard is peculiarly pertinent and instructive.
— from Have faith in Massachusetts; 2d ed. A Collection of Speeches and Messages by Calvin Coolidge

Austria forbids children to smoke in public places; and in German schools and military colleges there are laws upon the subject; France, Spain, Greece, and Portugal leave the matter severely alone .
— from Three Articles on Metaphor Society for Pure English, Tract 11 by Society for Pure English

That policy had, indeed, served its pernicious purpose, and it was now possible for a new ruler to turn a new leaf; this Lord Cornwallis did from the hour of his arrival, not without incurring the ill-concealed displeasures of the Castle cabal.
— from A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics - Volume 2 by Thomas D'Arcy McGee

The rest of the text, however, it will be seen, is pretty perfect, and is full of interest to Biblical students.
— from Fresh Light from the Ancient Monuments A Sketch of the Most Striking Confirmations of the Bible, From Recent Discoveries in Egypt, Palestine, Assyria, Babylonia, Asia Minor by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce