We like talking so much because we hope by our conversations to gain some mutual comfort, and because we seek to refresh our wearied spirits by variety of thoughts.
— from The Imitation of Christ by à Kempis Thomas

Virginia, still professing neutrality, prepared to seize the arsenal at Harper's Ferry and the navy-yard at Norfolk; she would prevent the passage of the United States' forces "with a serried phalanx of her gallant sons," two regiments of whom stood looking on while a file of marines took seven wounded men in an engine-house for them; she would do everything but her duty,—the gallant
— from The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays by James Russell Lowell

Shelley Hall in Suffolk, the remains of which still exist, was lost at play by Thomas Kerridge, the last squire, who died in 1743.
— from Light Come, Light Go: Gambling—Gamesters—Wagers—The Turf by Ralph Nevill

So with the Arabian Port of Aden, which she already possessed, and with a strong enough financial grasp upon impoverished Egypt to secure the right of way, should she need it, England had made the Canal which France dug, practically her own.
— from The Evolution of an Empire: A Brief Historical Sketch of England by Mary Platt Parmele

All important sports in America, except baseball, football, cricket, golf and rowing, are, however, under the control of the Amateur Athletic Union of the United States, the rules of which, so far as they relate to professionalism, are as follows.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

If in Lonsdale Road Dorothy beheld her present self, in Wilfred Curlew she saw the reflection of what she was twelve years ago, enough of which old self still existed to make her feel proud that never in her most anxious moments had she revealed to another person her own dread of making a mistake.
— from The Vanity Girl by Compton MacKenzie

The politician when he is told of the universal nature of the class war points triumphantly to the fact that it is a war which those who should be the chief combatants are slow to recognise or we should not find the working classes more ready to vote for a Liberal or a Conservative than for a Socialist.
— from Historical materialism and the economics of Karl Marx by Benedetto Croce

[Pg 282] As the two boys were standing side by side, the resemblance of which she spoke was quite striking.
— from Ben, the Luggage Boy; Or, Among the Wharves by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

He had forgotten his new spurs, the rowels of which, six inches in diameter, irritated the mustang, and were no doubt the cause of such violent kicking.
— from The War Trail: The Hunt of the Wild Horse by Mayne Reid