The first meeting in Egypt of the two brothers was at Cairo; and of it a characteristic account is given by the elder, an impetuous, we might almost say a pugnacious man, tolerably prompt to take offence, and upon whom, as he himself says at page 67, the Egyptian climate had a violently irritating effect.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 70, No. 431, September 1851 by Various

And this exquisite creature had a voice of so sympathetic a quality that no one could hear it unmoved.
— from A Georgian Pageant by Frank Frankfort Moore

The family remained Catholic through the Reformation, and the sanctuary lamp in Lanherne Chapel was never extinguished; so that English Catholics have a very special regard for this spot, where the light of their faith still burns brightly after so many centuries.
— from The Cornwall Coast by Arthur L. (Arthur Leslie) Salmon

It was here that Senator Livinius Regulus fixed his residence when banished from Rome in 59; and we learn from Suetonius, that the emperor Claudius had a villa here.
— from Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta by W. Cope Devereux

These early craft had a very short range of travel and because of their poor construction and lack of power they were not at all adapted for ocean-going, hence they could not accompany the fleet of warships on their maneuvers.
— from The Boys' Book of Submarines by Virgil D. (Virgil Dewey) Collins

"The English Captain had another visitor to-day—the British Minister."
— from Princess Maritza by Percy James Brebner

The French during the eighteenth century had at various times proposed methods of overcoming this defect.
— from Ancient and Modern Ships, Part 1: Wooden Sailing Ships by Holmes, George Charles Vincent, Sir

But she knew at the same time how desperate a struggle the effort cost him; and visionary though he was, she loved and admired him for it.
— from Michael's Crag by Grant Allen

Adolphine retired to her own room; the two appointments with her father, solicited by two men who had persecuted her with their attentions during the evening, caused her a vague feeling of uneasiness; a secret presentiment told her that she would be the subject of the interviews to be held on the morrow, and she was impatient to know whether her fears were justified.
— from Monsieur Cherami by Paul de Kock

The ostiarius or porter in the early Church held a very important office, on his discretion much of the safety of the Church depended.
— from Domitia by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould