Right-side; nay chases them, collars them with loud menace: Deputy Vaublanc, and others of the like, are glad to take refuge in Guardhouses, and escape by the back window.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Respecting these two clauses in the Constitution, Judge Story remarks: "We are not to attribute this prohibition of a national religious establishment to an indifference to religion in general, and especially to Christianity, (which none could hold in more reverence than the framers of the Constitution), but to a dread by the people of the influence of ecclesiastical power in matters of government; a dread which their ancestors brought with them from the parent country, and which unhappily for human infirmity, their own conduct, after the emigration, had not, in any just degree, tended to diminish.
— from Outlines of Ecclesiastical History by B. H. (Brigham Henry) Roberts

The road is good and even."
— from Lord Montagu's Page: An Historical Romance by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

By his general, Cerealis , he put down the revolt in Germany and Eastern Gaul, and thus saved several provinces to the empire.
— from Outlines of Universal History, Designed as a Text-book and for Private Reading by George Park Fisher

A large proportion of the lectures are given in Latin, the remainder in German and English, and Latin is current in the institution, although German is the familiar speech.
— from Studies in the South and West, with Comments on Canada by Charles Dudley Warner

Of course the roof is gone, and everywhere around shaft and pillar grow tall flowering grasses, shrubs with bright berries and spear-like leaves, while a carpet of grass as green as an emerald covers the stone floor.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 19, April 1874‐September 1874 by Various

The road is gravel, and excellent to a degree.
— from Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808 by lieutenant-colonel (Ninian) Pinkney

Washington, with characteristic inability to see injustice in anything advantageous to America, desired Congress to delay in every possible way the return of the prisoners to England, "since the most virtuous adhesion to the articles would not prevent their replacing in garrison an equal number of soldiers who might be sent against us."
— from The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. 1. (of 2) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England; to which is added a Sketch of Paine by William Cobbett by Moncure Daniel Conway

Michael Angelo disapproved of his alterations; but was deterred from returning to the original plan by its vast extent, and the necessity of contracting the extent of the work so as to meet the impoverished state of the Papal treasury, produced by the spreading of the Reformation in Germany and England.
— from The Gallery of Portraits: with Memoirs. Volume 1 (of 7) by Arthur Thomas Malkin

But nationalism is natural and instinctive; through pride in the revolution, it grows again even in the breasts of Communists.
— from The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism by Bertrand Russell

When they were in the room which she and her daughter were to occupy, Lucie, who had until then restrained herself, began to cry, and Alphonse, walking about the room, in great agitation, exclaimed, "This is a pretty beginning!"
— from Moral Tales by Madame (Elisabeth Charlotte Pauline) Guizot