Perceiving, at a glance, that the 'Pennsylvania' was in no danger, Brown gathered up the big spy-glass, war-club fashion, and ordered me out of the pilot-house with more than Comanche bluster.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

The document also called attention to the fact that, although the Soviet authorities had declared their readiness to open peace negotiations with the Ukrainian Central Rada, neither the Ukrainian Government, "which is now directed by Germany," nor the Berlin Government itself, had given any answer to the Russian offer.
— from New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol. 8, Pt. 2, No. 1, July 1918 by Various

May my heavenly Father comfort my heart in what is now determined, by giving an abundant success to my ministrations among you, so that a multitude of souls may have reason to praise him on that account!
— from Memorials of the Independent Churches in Northamptonshire with biographical notices of their pastors, and some account of the puritan ministers who laboured in the county. by Thomas Coleman

Her life was in no danger; but great fears were entertained lest the envious disease should prove fatal to her beauty.
— from History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 by William Hickling Prescott

All this, however, is not to be understood of sufficient grace, which is never denied by God to anyone, but of efficacious grace, which, by a just judgment of God, is not granted to tepid and ungrateful souls.
— from The Month of Mary, According to the Spirit of St. Francis of Sales Thirty-One Considerations With Examples, Prayers, Etc. by Francis, de Sales, Saint

There is not a particle of political right or power possessed or exercised by any individual in the nation which is not derived by grant from the sovereign power.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 5, November, 1863 by Various

“If any of these flowers please you, you can take them without any fear: you will incur no danger by gathering them.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 14, October 1871-March 1872 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various