The region surrounding Syracuse is rife with the romantic history of that once powerful Indian Confederacy known as the Six Nations, now fast fading from the memory of men.
— from Peculiarities of American Cities by Willard W. Glazier

This straw was its doll-baby, the only plaything it could know, and this its solemn play.
— from In the Open: Intimate Studies and Appreciations of Nature by Stanton Davis Kirkham

The oppressed protestants in catholic kingdoms, disgusted at the lukewarmness and half-apostasy of the Stuarts, looked up to him as their patron and mediator.
— from Constitutional History of England, Henry VII to George II. Volume 2 of 3 by Henry Hallam