Vattel, while pleading justly and with persuasive examples for the preservation of works of art, such as temples, tombs, and structures of remarkable beauty, admits that even these may be sacrificed:— [Pg 15]
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 17 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

He was born in Montreal, October 28, 1873, a son of Richard Bladworth Angus, the eminent financier and railway promoter.
— from Montreal from 1535 to 1914. Vol. 3. Biographical by William H. (William Henry) Atherton

The naval commanders, in spite of repeated bombardments and the enormous havoc they wrought along the coasts, found themselves hardly able to do more than hold their own against the Mataafa army.
— from Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas by Lloyd Osbourne

There are too many of the enemy about, in the shape of rival builders and their employees, and among them there may be some mean tricksters who'd do anything in their power to put the Pollard boats out of the running in the tests to come.
— from The Submarine Boys' Lightning Cruise The Young Kings of the Deep by Victor G. Durham

Unbounded wealth I found to have no power to bribe the dastard slaves of religious bigotry; and the elixir of immortality, though it could cure disease, and put to flight the approaches of age, was impotent to repel the fervour of devouring flames.
— from St. Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century by William Godwin

Their rings are true circles, and as the space they cover is still somewhat oblong they descend lower, with additional segments of rings (BB), at the ends than at the sides.
— from Byzantine Churches in Constantinople: Their History and Architecture by Alexander Van Millingen