Hatred of Christianity and of the person of Christ is not a matter of remote history, nor can it be regarded as the result of persecution; it forms an integral part of Rabbinical tradition which originated before any persecution of the Jews by Christians had taken place, and has continued in our country long after all such persecution has ended.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

The manner in which my caresses affected him showed plainly how excitable he was.
— from Laura Middleton; Her Brother and her Lover by Anonymous

The expedient which was employed to elude the prudence of the laws, affords a sufficient proof how effectually they disappointed the mischievous designs of private malice or superstitious zeal.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Jonson gives to his leading character some prominent humor, exaggerates it, as the cartoonist enlarges the most characteristic feature of a face, and so holds it before our attention that all other qualities are lost sight of; which is the method that Dickens used later in many of his novels.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

Several peoples, however, even in Europe and its neighbourhood, have desired without success to preserve or restore the old system: but the spirit of Christianity has everywhere prevailed.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The young gentleman, moreover, soon perceived how extremely grateful all those panegyrics on his instructors were to Mr Allworthy himself, as they so loudly resounded the praise of that singular plan of education which he had laid down; for this worthy man having observed the imperfect institution of our public schools, and the many vices which boys were there liable to learn, had resolved to educate
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

"You old booby," Rebecca said, pinching his ear and looking over to see that he made no mistakes in spelling—"beseech is not spelt with an a, and earliest is."
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

If ever a charitable floor did open to swallow up a miserable, befeathered damsel the Green Gables porch floor should promptly have engulfed Anne at that moment.
— from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

As much a lump of mingled stupidity and conceit as ever, he still pronounces his e's as u's, but has taken unto himself a wife, and, with her, a respectable dowry.
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

The Kentuckian sketched with ardor the dashing brilliance of the other’s achievement: how five years had brought him from lethal obscurity to international fame; how, though a strictly American product who had not studied abroad, his Salon pictures had electrified Paris.
— from The Key to Yesterday by Charles Neville Buck

Several physicists have effected very interesting calorimetric measurements, either, like M. Perot, in order to verify Clapeyron's formula regarding the heat of vaporization, or to ascertain the values of specific heats and their variations when the temperature or the pressure happens to change.
— from The New Physics and Its Evolution by Lucien Poincaré

She drew out her handkerchief and wiped her eyes "of tears which sacred pity had engendered there."
— from Liber Amoris, Or, The New Pygmalion by William Hazlitt

Dollars, lawful money of the United States of America, to .................. in hand paid by .............. the part ... of the second part, at or before the ensealing and delivery of these Presents, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, ha ... granted, bargained, sold, assigned, transferred, and set over, and, by these Presents, do ... grant, bargain, sell, assign, transfer, and set over unto the said part ... of the second part, ................... heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns, a certain, Indenture of Mortgage , bearing date the ................ day of ............... in the year One Thousand Nine Hundred and ........... made by.............. and all .............. right, title, and interest to the premises therein described, as follows, to-wit:.............. which said Mortgage is recorded in the Recorder's Office of the 244 County of ............. in the State of .............. in Book No. .......... of Mortgages, at page .............. Together with the ............... therein described, and the money due or to grow due thereon, with interest, to waive and to hold the same unto the said part ... of the second part, ................ executors, administrators, or assigns, FOREVER : .............. subject only to the provisos in the said Indenture of Mortgage contained: And ................. do, for ............... heirs, executors, and administrators, covenant with the said part ... of the second part ........................ heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns, that there is now actually ..................... owing on said ..................... and Mortgage, in principal and interest, ..............
— from The New Century Standard Letter-Writer Business, Family and Social Correspondence, Love-Letters, Etiquette, Synonyms, Legal Forms, Etc. by Alfred B. Chambers

The ‘roar’ that greeted her, from the commanding officer down to the drummer-boys, was loud enough to be heard nearly at head-quarters in San Francisco; but, Indian-like, she preserved her equanimity, and did not seem at all disconcerted, but sailed off with the air and step of a genuine princess, while my friend rushed into his quarters to discover himself minus his twenty dollars’ worth of postage-stamps, and that what was intended for the mail had been appropriated to the female.
— from Foot-prints of a letter carrier; or, a history of the world's correspondece by James Rees

“They want me to tell you how the teacher has the school picnic here every year.
— from My Ántonia by Willa Cather

But many of his smaller pieces he enjoyed very heartily, although not thoroughly—the element of Christian Pantheism, which is their soul, being beyond his comprehension, almost perception, as yet.
— from David Elginbrod by George MacDonald

Many times she planned her escape.
— from The Chessmen of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

I saw one part where the timber had been burned some time ago; here both the soil and vegetation were good, and two or three of the plants seen are common in this part of Ontario, but they had not the vigorous appearance which the same plants have East.
— from Along Alaska's Great River A Popular Account of the Travels of an Alaska Exploring Expedition along the Great Yukon River, from Its Source to Its Mouth, in the British North-West Territory, and in the Territory of Alaska by Frederick Schwatka