She disciplined herself sternly out of the crazy notion that there had been only one rocket ship and that one a failure.
— from The Marching Morons by C. M. (Cyril M.) Kornbluth

No violent physical means are available; the war must therefore be one of ruses, spells, and lies—in short, a "spiritual war."
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

But as our Soules of growth and Soules of sense 35 Have birthright of our reasons Soule, yet hence They fly not from that, nor seeke presidence: Natures first lesson, so, discretion, Must not grudge zeale a place, nor yet keepe none, Not banish it selfe, nor religion.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

Thus they did formely and still do perish without true Faith, or the knowledge and benefit of our Religious Sacraments.
— from A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies Or, a faithful NARRATIVE OF THE Horrid and Unexampled Massacres, Butcheries, and all manner of Cruelties, that Hell and Malice could invent, committed by the Popish Spanish Party on the inhabitants of West-India, TOGETHER With the Devastations of several Kingdoms in America by Fire and Sword, for the space of Forty and Two Years, from the time of its first Discovery by them. by Bartolomé de las Casas

He had no right to be a martyr; and, beholding him so fit to be happy and so feeble for all other purposes, a generous, strong, and noble spirit would, methinks, have been ready to sacrifice what little enjoyment it might have planned for itself,—it would have flung down the hopes, so paltry in its regard,—if thereby the wintry blasts of our rude sphere might come tempered to such a man.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

We had a strong desire to make a trip up the Yazoo and the Sunflower—an interesting region at any time, but additionally interesting at this time, because up there the great inundation was still to be seen in force—but we were nearly sure to have to wait a day or more for a New Orleans boat on our return; so we were obliged to give up the project.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

In the most boisterous outbursts of rapturous sentiment, there was ever a tinge of deep melancholy.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

TO PRODUCE SGRAFFITO SURFACE on bowls or other round surfaces the layers are produced by rotating the bowl in colors {92} or spraying the colors on with a sprayer such as is described in the chapter on coloring of bowls and vases.
— from Color Cement Handicraft by Pedro J. (Pedro Joseph) Lemos

The Constitution which came from one, the universal liberty which came from the other, must be set [Pg 186] in our hearts as institutions in the blood of our race, so that this Government shall not perish until every drop of that blood has been shed in its defense; and we shall behold the flag of our country as the beautiful emblem of their unselfish lives, whose red ran out of a soldier's heart, whose white was bleached by a nation's tears, whose stars were hung there to sing together until the eternal morning when all the world shall be free.
— from Model Speeches for Practise by Grenville Kleiser

It was housed in the governor's private office, which was a small one-story frame building of one room situated among the trees in the little backwoods town.
— from Library Ideals by Henry Eduard Legler

In 1400, a gentleman named Owen-ap-Griffith, of Glendower, who had been one of Richard's squires, put himself at the head of a rising in North Wales.
— from A History of England Eleventh Edition by Charles Oman

“Sure an where’s the harrum,” said Pat, “if it does come into the cabin, so long as we’re high up in our berths, out of reach?” “Solomon’ll have trouble in cooking to-morrow,” said Bart.
— from Picked up Adrift Illustrated by James De Mille

Rodrigo was relating to his parents and to his wife the innumerable brave deeds of his soldiers at the battle of Oca, remaining silent as to his own, for the noble cavalier was as modest as he was valiant.
— from The Cid Campeador: A Historical Romance by Antonio de Trueba

To dream of seeing a boiler out of repair, signifies you will suffer from bad management or disappointment.
— from Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What's in a Dream A Scientific and Practical Exposition by Gustavus Hindman Miller