The "politically correct" movement for mandatory multilingual teaching in US schools and respect for the various subcultures is a disaster for the future of this country (as it already is in Europe).
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Let them do this, sir—free Protestantism from the golden shackles which make it the slave of Mammon, that it may be able to work—do this, and depend upon it, that it will then flourish as it ought; but, in my humble opinion, until such a reform first takes place with ourselves, it is idle to expect that Roman Catholics will come over to us, unless, indeed, a few from sordid and dishonest motives—and these we were better without.
— from Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two by William Carleton

The passage quoted means that the housekeepers allowed the French players to receive all money taken on the two sermon days of the first week, and after that exacted their usual share as rental for the building.
— from Shakespearean Playhouses A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration by Joseph Quincy Adams

The masses look upon Sumner as responsible for the death of Batchelder.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 04 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

Tapering just a trifle and a little on the lean, it runs up smooth and round for twenty feet, where a big bulge occurs, just above which is the capacious opening to the owls'
— from Wild Life Near Home by Dallas Lore Sharp

But in two days I was my usual self again, ready for the arduous tasks of moving and settling.
— from Revelations of a Wife The Story of a Honeymoon by Adele Garrison

Mrs. Leslie had wisely selected a town sufficiently remote from her own abode to preclude any revelations of her domestics; and, as Mrs. Butler, Alice attracted universal sympathy and respect from the exercise of her talents, the modest sweetness of her manners, the unblemished propriety of her conduct.
— from Ernest Maltravers — Volume 04 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

The author practiced medicine for ten years, was for eighteen months a patient at sanatoria in Canada and the United States and resided for two years in a health resort.
— from The Book Review Digest, Volume 13, 1917 Thirteenth Annual Cumulation Reviews of 1917 Books by Various

Moreover, there was no immediate motive urging senators and representatives from the Suffrage States—although often they were individually helpful—to convert senators and representatives of their own Party from non-Suffrage States.
— from The Story of the Woman's Party by Inez Haynes Gillmore

As one period follows another it usually shows a reaction from the previous one; a somber period is followed by a gay one; the excess of ornament in one is followed by restraint in the next.
— from Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today by Lucy Abbot Throop