Saying these words, Caddy laughingly sat down at a little jingling square piano and really rattled off a quadrille with great spirit.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

For although it is true righteousness, that standeth in negative and positive holiness; yet that is not true righteousness, that standeth but in some pieces and ragged remnants of negative and positive righteousness.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

This gentleman having long been known as a devoted abolitionist,—a fervid preacher of the doctrine, that character is above color,—and as one of the ablest advocates of the social, political, and religious rights of the colored man, I, of course, had a pleasant visit with the family; and, remaining with them several days, conceived a deep interest in one of the Elder's daughters,—Miss Mary E. King, who was then preparing to enter the College in Mc.
— from The American Prejudice Against Color An Authentic Narrative, Showing How Easily the Nation Got into an Uproar. by Allen, William G., active 1849-1853

After that he found the desert absolutely empty of life, a succession of level sandy plains, and rough ridges of sandstone.
— from A Pilgrimage to Nejd, the Cradle of the Arab Race. Vol. 2 [of 2] A Visit to the Court of the Arab Emir, and "our Persian Campaign." by Blunt, Anne, Lady

#60 By this law, Bahá’u’lláh greatly simplifies practices and religious regulations of the past relating to hunting.
— from The Kitáb-i-Aqdas by Bahá'u'lláh

Let him have power at once to go to the fountain-head for the small balance we may require from the Old World; let him have the authority to raise funds to meet the floating debt and temporary loan, and to replace the seven-thirties and compound-interest notes as they mature, and we may confidently anticipate both an early resumption of specie payments and reduced rates of interest, and consequent diminution of debt.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various

Seen from all sides Mt. Shasta presents a remarkably regular outline, and its beautiful conoidal form has excited the admiration of many observers.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 05, July 1885, No. 10 by Chautauqua Institution

He should at first gain familiarity through the senses with simple geometrical figures and forms, plane and solid; should handle, draw, measure, and model them; and should gradually learn some of their simpler properties and relations."— Report of Committee of Ten , page 110.
— from Froebel's Gifts by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin