You understand?" said the Emperor, ready to explain his orders more fully, believing that an order could be more intelligently delivered if the purport were explained verbally to the bearer, especially in the case of a skilled and trusted young soldier like Marteau.
— from The Eagle of the Empire: A Story of Waterloo by Cyrus Townsend Brady

The more moderate Republicans, anxious to heal the breach in American unity, sought to encourage rather than to repress it.
— from History of the United States by Mary Ritter Beard

On account of our undeveloped sensitivity, the emotional reactions to color are found to be largely personal and whimsical: one person "loves" pink, another purple, or green.
— from Architecture and Democracy by Claude Fayette Bragdon

And in this consummation it comes clear to see how in very deed right and wrong, evil and good, can be encompassed in a moral unison such that evil remains the all-abhorrent thing, and good is proved to be alone desired.
— from Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Clark S. (Clark Smith) Beardslee

The peaceful and lawful aims of the society, its frank acknowledgment of the rights of the Southern States were set forth in its constitution: "While it admits that each State in which slavery exists has, by the Constitution of the United States, the exclusive right to legislate in regard to its abolition in said State, it shall aim to convince all our fellow-citizens, by arguments addressed to their understandings and consciences, that slaveholding is a heinous crime in the sight of God, and that [48] the duty, safety, and best interest of all concerned require its immediate abandonment, without expatriation.
— from William Jay and the Constitutional Movement for the Abolition of Slavery by Bayard Tuckerman

This portion of Virginia, too, was a great military highway for United States troops, en route to the West; and once securely lodged in its almost impregnable fastnesses, their ejection would be practically impossible.
— from Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death by T. C. (Thomas Cooper) De Leon

Eric turned to enter the sea and wade to the vessel, but Skallagrim caught him in his arms as though he were but a child, and, wading into the surf till the water covered his waistbelt, bore him to the vessel and lifted him up so that Eric reached the bulwarks with his hands.
— from Eric Brighteyes by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

While it admits that each state, in which slavery exists, has, by the Constitution of the United States, the exclusive right to legislate in regard to its abolition in said state, it shall aim to convince all our fellow-citizens, by arguments addressed to their understandings and consciences, that slaveholding is a heinous crime in the sight of God, and that the duty, safety, and best interests of all concerned require its immediate abandonment, without expatriation.
— from The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4 by American Anti-Slavery Society

It is passing strange, that you, or any other man, who is not playing a desperate game, should, in the face of the Constitution of the American Anti-Slavery Society, which "admits, that each state, in which slavery exists, has, by the Constitution of the United States, the exclusive right to legislate in regard to the abolition of slavery in said state;" make such charges, as you have done.
— from The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4 by American Anti-Slavery Society

“I hope they untie us before they leave, and give us something to eat,” remarked the young inventor.
— from Tom Swift Among the Diamond Makers; Or, The Secret of Phantom Mountain by Victor Appleton