In conclusion, he says that the tacit compact, which subsisted for years, by which Spain was to forbear from interrupting British trade with the South American colonies having been renounced by Spain, and the old colonial system having been revived in as full vigor as if she had still a practical hold over her colonies and a navy to enforce her pretensions, "no man will say that under such circumstances our recognition of those states can be indefinitely postponed."
— from The United States and Latin America by John Holladay Latané

And be it further enacted , That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to issue, on the credit of the United States, coupon or registered bonds to the amount of $500,000,000, of such denominations not less than fifty dollars as he may think proper, redeemable in coin, at the pleasure of the Government, at any time after fifteen years, and payable in coin at fifty years from date, and bearing interest not exceeding four and one half per cent.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 17 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

"Every line," he tells us somewhere, "cried out renunciation, denial, resignation....
— from The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken

It was published on June 18th in the Badia, the Annunziata, Santa Croce, Santa Maria Novella, and Santo Spirito, with the usual solemn ceremonies of ringing bells and dashing out of the lights–in the last-named church, especially, the monks "did the cursing in the most orgulist wise that might be done," as the compiler of the Morte Darthur would put it.
— from The Story of Florence by Edmund G. Gardner

Report of the U. S. Commission on Rifles .
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

II., Clause I., which reads, "the citizens of each State shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States," and that this clause of the Constitution, together with the amendments enfranchising the freedmen, be made test questions at the polls, until a solid North shall elect a government that will have backbone enough to see to it that every State in the Union shall strictly comply with the requirements of [Pg 10] the United States Constitution, or revert to a territorial condition.
— from Emancipation and Emigration A Plan to Transfer the Freedmen of the South to the Government Lands of the West by The Principia Club by Anonymous

At the utmost, she can only remember how it felt.
— from Insect Adventures by Louise Hasbrouck Zimm

Great ships like the Lusitania and the Arabic , and purely passenger ships like the Sussex , have been attacked without any warning, often before they were aware they were in the presence of an armed enemy ship, and the life of non-combatants, passengers, and crews was indiscriminately destroyed in a manner which the Government of the United States could only regard as wanton and lacking every justification.
— from The German Pirate: His Methods and Record by Ajax