They also gave thanks to David, on account of all the blessings which they had received ever since he had taken the kingdom.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

He said that he remembered every sin he had ever committed; and when he called to mind how, at a certain recent hotly contested election, he voted the wrong ticket by mistake, it made him feel so small that he got free from the Fat Man’s Misery quite easily.
— from Hovey's Handbook of the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky A Practical Guide to the Regulation Routes by Horace Carver Hovey

As bold as he was in speech and as free to speak out what was in his mind, he once remarked to an intimate friend, Dr. Steiner of Augusta, that he rarely ever saw his name in print that it was not attached to a lie.
— from Robert Toombs Statesman, Speaker, Soldier, Sage by Pleasant A. Stovall

They had rendered excellent service; had, in fact, constituted the very backbone of the offensive operations.
— from 'Tween Snow and Fire: A Tale of the Last Kafir War by Bertram Mitford

Previous to his reign, every Sherif had in his house at Mekka an establishment of thirty or forty armed slaves, servants, and relations, besides having powerful friends among the Bedouins.
— from Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred by John Lewis Burckhardt

Then he read every story he could find of all possible and impossible adventures, and longed for nothing so much as to go forth, like Napoleon or Alexander, and make mincemeat of the whole world.
— from The Magician's Show Box, and Other Stories by Lydia Maria Child

Relation of the Standard Hue to the Hue Rectangle Each standard hue may now be located in the left boundary of its hue rectangle and opposite its neutral gray equivalent in the right boundary.
— from Industrial Arts Design A Textbook of Practical Methods for Students, Teachers, and Craftsmen by William H. (William Harrison) Varnum