The first Christians in Jerusalem were honoured of all the people because of their assiduity in the Temple worship and for their exemplary devotion.
— from Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History by Auguste Sabatier

While Frederick, two years before, hastened to his uncle's palace, the holy man had gone on to other parts of the country to call on the people to join the Holy War, and from this errand death had called him.
— from Fairy Circles Tales and Legends of Giants, Dwarfs, Fairies, Water-Sprites, and Hobgoblins by Villamaria

The flag of the free floated from the dome of the Statehouse, which almost from the earliest days of the war had sheltered what was now indeed the Lost Cause.
— from Tom Strong, Lincoln's Scout A Story of the United States in the Times That Tried Men's Souls by Alfred Bishop Mason

The professions at which I felt I had the latent power to excel, were I but given a chance, were in a sphere far above us, and to mention my feelings and ambitions to my matter-of-fact practical mother would bring upon me worse ridicule than I was already forced to endure day by day.
— from My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin

But then infant damnation is no worse than the damnation of adults who are foreordained to everlasting death, particularly and unchangeably designed to everlasting death, the number so definite that it can be neither increased nor diminished.
— from A Book of Gems, or, Choice selections from the writings of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

This probably accounts for their low standard of morality as well as for the emotional debauches in which they indulge.
— from My Actor-Husband: A true story of American stage life by Anonymous

A barrier was placed in the way of the advance of the Germans , which availed for this end during several centuries.
— from Outlines of Universal History, Designed as a Text-book and for Private Reading by George Park Fisher

Ginger has already been well tested in the Republic—there have been times when it was quite an important article of export; sugar-cane grows well, and from the earliest days plantations of it have yielded something for local consumption—if capital were available, there seems no reason why profitable plantations of cane might not be made; cassava has always been to some degree an article of export in the past,—it is of course the main food product of the natives—it is the source of tapioca and other food materials abundantly in use among ourselves.
— from Liberia: Description, History, Problems by Frederick Starr

“I think,” was the equally angry reply, “that I was a fool to expect decent treatment from a [187] Guardsman who has no respect for his country or his flag.”
— from The Guardsman by Homer Greene