In Scotland the rate is divided equally between the landlord and tenant.
— from A history of the Irish poor law, in connexion with the condition of the people by Nicholls, George, Sir

" Another,—his mother:— "Infinite peril attends the setting our duties and religious notions in too austere a point of view, and seeming mystic and obscure modes of speech when describing religious sentiments; and disparaging every effort to do right except it tallies exactly with some indescribable rule of faith which cannot be comprehended by simple-minded and quiet-tempered piety, is of all things the most dangerous, since the risk is dreadful either of disgusting, or repelling, or alarming into despair.
— from Life of Father Ignatius of St. Paul, Passionist (The Hon. & Rev. George Spencer). by Pius a Sp. Sancto (Pius a Spiritu Sancto)

This latter figure shows the reductions in departmental estimates for the coming year made possible by the operation of the Budget system that the Congress has provided.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

Cooper now settled to reading in desperate earnest, and with something like a fixed purpose to become a scholar, and perhaps a writer, or a great political or religious orator, or, more probable than all things else—for the poetic fervor was very strong just now—a poet !
— from Lives of Illustrious Shoemakers by W. E. (William Edward) Winks

He has been told so often that he is a young lion of reform, that he begins to study the role in dead earnest.
— from Stories of a Western Town by Octave Thanet

Then the thing seemed to feel its strength, to recognize its dark enfranchisement, and broke into such a blasphemy of sound as hath not been heard since the angels alighted where they fell.
— from St. Cuthbert's by Robert E. (Robert Edward) Knowles

The Prince took little heed of the words, for his aroused thoughts bore him sadly to the mist-clad mountain and the heathery gorges far away; and he strode the room in deep emotion.
— from Gerald Fitzgerald, the Chevalier: A Novel by Charles James Lever

The nest is very large, sometimes measuring fully four feet across, and is composed of a quantity of materials sufficient to render its depth equal to its diameter.
— from Ornithological Biography, Volume 1 (of 5) An Account of the Habits of the Birds of the United States of America by John James Audubon

They throw themselves into the clutches of the old-clothes buyer, and sell exquisite jewels for a mere song; they run into debt, expressly to keep up a spurious luxury, in the hope of recovering what they have lost—a cash-box to draw upon.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac