Even Cimme made way for the others.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Then, after holding meetings with Jews in Bury Street, Spitalfields, he wrote a most touching appeal to the Committee of the L.J.S. (or rather to those earnest Christian men who formed themselves later into a Committee) in 1801, and thus [222] he gave the first impulse to the establishment of the London Society for Promoting Christianity amongst the Jews in 1809.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

You either cut my wrists free or you're going to have to aim for me.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

The mirror, the cosmetics, and the easy couch made way for the crucifix, the discipline, and the penitential chain.
— from Roman Legends: A collection of the fables and folk-lore of Rome by Rachel Harriette Busk

Ascanio and others, especially Cardinal Monreale, who formerly were his Holiness's table companions, and Valenza too, broke off this companionship because his parsimony displeased them, and avoided it whenever and however they could.
— from Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day by Ferdinand Gregorovius

A man of some station in society, and who considered himself a powerful patron in art, said at a public dinner, where he was charmed with Fuseli's conversation, "If you ever come my way, Fuseli, I shall be happy to see you."
— from Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art, (Vol. 2 of 3) by Shearjashub Spooner

The sorceresses did not hesitate between the two sisters-in-law, thinking to come off well either way: if the one wished to retain the affection of the king, the other sought to possess herself of it, and in either case money would fall into their purses.
— from Princes and Poisoners: Studies of the Court of Louis XIV by Frantz Funck-Brentano

“I didn’t know we’d got to the valleys yet,” said I, eagerly, connecting Mormons with fertility and jasmine.
— from Red Men and White by Owen Wister

The only thing now wanted, is an accumulation of funds, in order to enable us to make a purchase agreeable to the direction of the first Convention; and, to effect that purpose, the Convention has recommended, to the different Societies engaged in that cause, to preserve and prosecute their designs with double energy; and we would earnestly recommend to every colored man (who feels the weight of his degradation), to consider himself in duty bound to contribute his mite toward this great object.
— from History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens by George Washington Williams

EDITH CAVELL McLANDBURGH WILSON From Miss Wilson’s book entitled “The Little Flag On Main Street,” published and copyright, 1917, by The Macmillan Company, New York.
— from Great Poems of the World War by William Dunseath Eaton

As their whole matter in dispute was in itself and on both sides not clean or lucid, they soon got into the hands of all sorts of swindlers and cutthroats, of pettifoggers and evil counselors, men who filled their imagination with glittering bubbles, containing no substance whatever.
— from Seldwyla Folks: Three Singular Tales by Gottfried Keller