On entering the House of Representatives of Washington one is struck by the vulgar demeanor of that great assembly.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

[39] “By those who are much in the habit of reading or writing by candle-light, it will also be esteemed no inconsiderable addition to the advantages already mentioned, that the trouble of seeking and applying the snuffers is superseded.
— from A Practical Treatise on Gas-light Exhibiting a Summary Description of the Apparatus and Machinery Best Calculated for Illuminating Streets, Houses, and Manufactories, with Carburetted Hydrogen, or Coal-Gas, with Remarks on the Utility, Safety, and General Nature of this new Branch of Civil Economy. by Friedrich Christian Accum

Finally, we would allude to divers laws prevalent in Russia, which fix the age at which religious professions may be made, which destroy entirely the schools that are held in the houses of religious orders, which prevent the visits of provincial superiors, which forbid and interdict conversion to the Catholic faith.”
— from Pius IX. And His Time by Æneas MacDonell Dawson

This company was the host of redeemed ones whom Christ had saved, in whom he dwelt, and through whom he revealed God and accomplished his work on earth.
— from The Last Reformation by F. G. (Frederick George) Smith

They (that is, Congress) passed an act on the subject of the election of members of the House of Representatives, of which that House are the sole judges; each House detailed, in a particular manner, their rules and modes of proceeding—this was all that was necessary to be detailed.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 2 (of 16) by United States. Congress

And do so when the hawk, from the top of the hurdle, or rick, or wherever she has taken perch, is looking the right way.
— from The Art and Practice of Hawking by E. B. (Edward Blair) Michell

It was but the day before yesterday that the transaction took place in the most open manner at the house of Rufinus, of whom I shall soon have something to say.
— from The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura by Apuleius

As late as December 4, Henry Clay, addressing the House of Representatives, of which he then was Speaker, said: "The British trade shut out from the Baltic—excluded from the Continent of Europe—possibly expelled the Black Sea—perishing in South America; its illicit avenue to the United States, through Canada, closed—was this the period for throwing open our own market by abandoning our restrictive system?
— from Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 Volume 1 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

For a time it flourished; but while the rival Roses wasted the realm, the sea crept nearer, and at length, after an existence of a century and a half, distinctly traceable in ancient records and old books, a high tide, enraged by a storm, ended the history of Ravenser Odd with a fearful catastrophe.
— from A Month in Yorkshire by Walter White

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— from Cassell's Book of Birds, Volume 2 (of 4) by Alfred Edmund Brehm

You do not look up to him, or reverence, or worship him as a woman should the god of her idolatry.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac