They aggregated themselves, eventually, into a federal union—a political nationality founded on 'the corner stone' of liberty, and not of slavery.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
It was something anomalous to call to arms for the sake of liberty a nation of serfs who vividly felt the injustice of their situation; besides, it had been heard that some moujiks said, "Bonaparte comes to bring us liberty, we do not want any more
— from Napoleon's Campaign in Russia, Anno 1812; Medico-Historical by Achilles Rose
Use render in speaking of lard and not of songs.
— from The Style Book of The Detroit News by Detroit news
Will they speak of love, and not of socialism?
— from The Miracles of Antichrist: A Novel by Selma Lagerlöf
Out of the great mass of speech that is now accessible to the student of language, a number of so-called families have been separated, such as the Aryan , the Semitic , the Ural-Altaic , the Indo-Chinese , the Dravidian , the Malayo-Polynesian , the Kafir or Bâ-ntu in Africa, and the Polysynthetic dialects of America.
— from Chips from a German Workshop, Volume 4 Essays Chiefly on the Science of Language by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller
Sugar of lead and nitrate of silver each give a white precipitate; and mercurous and mercuric nitrates white and yellow precipitates.
— from Poisons, Their Effects and Detection A Manual for the Use of Analytical Chemists and Experts by Alexander Wynter Blyth
He began to stand out like a needle of sharp rock, amid the flitting shadows of uncertain purpose and the vapoury drift of wandering aims.
— from Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 1 of 3), Essay 1: Robespierre by John Morley
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