South of 40 degrees where the weather is not severe, it is policy to look at traps at least twice a week, and in the extreme South the trapper should make his rounds every day.
— from Deadfalls and Snares A Book of Instruction for Trappers About These and Other Home-Made Traps by A. R. (Arthur Robert) Harding

While, with agitation in the extreme, she thus deliberated, the proposition again was put, “Whether she would trust to the mercy of her father by confessing, or draw down his immediate vengeance by denying her guilt?”
— from Nature and Art by Mrs. Inchbald

It was always in the evening, she thought, when uncertain colours and shadows filled the air, that he looked his best.
— from The Duchess of Wrexe, Her Decline and Death; A Romantic Commentary by Hugh Walpole

She herself was absolutely indifferent to everything save the paintings.
— from To-morrow? by Victoria Cross

A statesman molding the affairs of a nation as no one else could do it, or a scholar leading the thought of his generation is subject to the same law; in order to give the best grade of service of which he is capable, man must find a joy in the performance of the work as well as in the end sought through its performance.
— from The Mind and Its Education by George Herbert Betts

Mr. Holmes said that he thought it necessary, in order to enforce a general compliance with the laws of the United States, that they should be printed in the German language, as well as in the English, since there were very many inhabitants in this country who could read no other.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 2 (of 16) by United States. Congress

But first in bloud must his good fortune bud, Before he be the Lord of Turnus towne, Or force her smile that hetherto hath frownd: Three winters shall he with the Rutiles warre, And in the end subdue them with his sword, And full three Sommers likewise shall he waste, In mannaging those fierce barbarian mindes: Which once performd, poore Troy so long supprest, From forth her ashes shall aduance her head, And flourish once againe that erst was dead: But bright Ascanius beauties better worke, Who with the Sunne deuides one radiant shape, Shall build his throne amidst those starrie towers, That earth-borne Atlas groning vnderprops: No bounds but heauen shall bound his Emperie, Whose azured gates enchased with his name, Shall make the morning halt her gray vprise, To feede her eyes with his engrauen fame.
— from The Tragedy of Dido Queene of Carthage by Christopher Marlowe

It would be a fair trial of your faith in him; and if he were able in the event satisfactorily to rebut it, I don't think he would thank you, should you have waited for his explanation before you took his part, instead of knowing him too well to suspect it.
— from Loss and Gain: The Story of a Convert by John Henry Newman

I fear I am utterly out of sympathy with elaborate forms, which always in the end seem to me to take the place of facts, and to become a husk without a kernel, but none the less I can see a definite mission for such a church as appealing to a certain class of mind.
— from The Wanderings of a Spiritualist by Arthur Conan Doyle