It was he who translated: "No one," said 'Tonio, "should venture beyond sentry post either day or night.
— from Tonio, Son of the Sierras: A Story of the Apache War by Charles King

Why are not the words, sister, mother, daughter, wife, only names for degradation And dishonor? Because men have grown more honorable than their religion, and the strong arm of the law, supported by the stronger arm of public sentiment, demands greater justice than St. Paul ever dreamed of.
— from Men, Women, and Gods; and Other Lectures by Helen H. (Helen Hamilton) Gardener

It has been a popular pose among certain superior persons, equally devoid of humour themselves as of the power of appreciating it in others, that Oscar Wilde sacrificed dramatic action to dialogue; that his plays were lacking in human interest, his plots of the very poorest; a fact that was skilfully concealed by the sallies of smart sayings and witty repartee, which carried the hearers away during the representation, so that in the charm of the style they forgot the absence of the substance.
— from Oscar Wilde by Leonard Cresswell Ingleby

By this sacred anchor of the Ecclesiastical Reservation, (`Reservatum Ecclesiasticum',) which makes the temporal existence of a spiritual prince entirely dependent on his fidelity to the olden religion, the Roman Catholic Church in Germany is still held fast; and precarious, indeed, would be its situation were this anchor to give way.
— from The Thirty Years War — Volume 01 by Friedrich Schiller

Why could not one of the suspected men have slipped it in Sheldon's pocket, either designedly or by mistake?
— from The Hilltop Boys on the River by Cyril Burleigh