She offered the one passed last year by the W.C.T.U. which was a strong unequivocal denunciation of lynching.
— from The Red Record Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States by Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Sir Nicholas was styled by Camden sacris conciliis alterum columen ; he was the author of some unpublished discourses on law and politics, and of a commentary on the minor prophets.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

I added that I was so deeply in love with her that unless she found some means of making me happy I should undoubtedly die of love.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

The pause in the proceedings that ensued, pending the receipt of replies from the Churches consulted; the silence of the Council upon his letter and inculpation of Calvin, combined with the effects of continued imprisonment, anxiety, and hope deferred, on a body not of the strongest, would seem before long to have induced a frame of mind different from that so unmistakably displayed of late by the prisoner.
— from Servetus and Calvin A Study of an Important Epoch in the Early History of the Reformation by Robert Willis

This great town, Peleus' son, in flight, with aversation That out of fate put off my steps; but now all flight is flown, The short course set up, death or life.
— from The Iliads of Homer Translated according to the Greek by Homer

Born in Newcastle County, Delaware, December 23, 1783; entered the navy as midshipman, 1800; served in war against Tripoli; lieutenant, 1807; master commander, 1813; defeated British squadron under Downie on Lake Champlain, September 11, 1814; died at sea, November 16, 1825.
— from American Men of Action by Burton Egbert Stevenson

Care was taken to prevent the people from sleeping upon deck or lying down in their wet clothes; and once in every fortnight or three weeks, as circumstances permitted, their beds, and the contents of their chests and bags were opened out and exposed to the sun and air.
— from The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders by Scott, Ernest, Sir

Fly-fishing is most successful from about sundown until dark, or later, and on cloudy days also during the afternoon.
— from Bass, Pike, Perch, and Others by James A. (James Alexander) Henshall

As the result of this somewhat unequal division of labor, there lay in half an hour a goodly pile of fire wood ready for the cooking.
— from Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police: A Tale of the Macleod Trail by Ralph Connor

As plainly as the crowning of a new monarch and the flourish of trumpets and the kissing of his hand by the great officers of state proclaim him king, so unmistakably does our Lord by riding into Jerusalem on an ass and by accepting the hosannas of the people proclaim Himself the King promised to men through the Jews, as the King of peace who was to win men to His rule by love and sway them by a Divine Spirit.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. II by Marcus Dods

Pahlaván Riḍá—God’s mercy and blessings and splendors be upon him; praise and salutations be unto him—was a man to outward seeming untutored, devoid of learning.
— from Memorials of the Faithful by `Abdu'l-Bahá