Nevertheless an inherent value exists in all emitted sounds, although barbaric practice and theory are slow to recognise it.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Not a single event in Christian history is connected with its name; and its very existence is only rescued from oblivion, when at long intervals some bishop of Colossæ attaches his signature to the decree of an ecclesiastical synod.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

Hodie namque archa illa verissima, et sanctissimum illud Mamuá in templo Domini a catholicis præseservantur.
— from Some Account of Gothic Architecture in Spain by George Edmund Street

All this thou knowest, Hilda, as well as I; but thou dost not know that men have been at the stede to-day, who tell us that the King is advancing north, and is victorious everywhere.
— from Erling the Bold by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

But neither ache is very enduring.
— from A Book of the Cevennes by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

No! all in vain, each time it falls short.
— from The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 by Frederick Whymper

To this Parliament Chatham and Burke now appealed in vain; even Fox, at last definitely taking his stand with the supporters of America, could not move it from its subservience to the king.
— from The Siege of Boston by Allen French

The planter's ownership over the persons of his dependents was, however, much more absolute than was that of the Norman lord, for on the manors the serfs could not be sold off the land, a restriction that did not apply in Virginia either to black slaves or indentured servants.
— from George Washington: Farmer Being an Account of His Home Life and Agricultural Activities by Paul Leland Haworth

He speaks indeed of his " willingly acknowledging;" but that he was not very much in earnest in his willingness, appears from what follows: "Others advance a new and ingenious view," etc.
— from Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg