(1873.), 431 -448 Miss Anthony's speech at Washington Convention; she appears before U.S. District-Judge at Albany and bail is increased to $1,000; addresses State Constitutional Commission; indicted by grand jury; becomes unconscious on lecture platform at Ft. Wayne; votes again; call for Twenty-fifth Suffrage Anniversary; Miss Anthony delivers her great Constitutional Argument in twenty-nine post office districts in Monroe Co.; District-Attorney moves her trial to another county; she speaks at twenty-one places and Mrs. Gage at sixteen in that county; Rochester Union and Advertiser condemns her; trial opens at Canandaigua; masterly argument of Judge Selden; Justice Ward Hunt delivers Written Opinion without leaving bench; declines to submit case to Jury or to allow it to be polled; refuses new trial; spirited encounter between Miss Anthony and Judge; newspaper comment; trial of Inspectors; Judge refuses to allow Counsel to address Jury; opinion of Mr. Van Voorhis; contributions sent to Miss Anthony by friends; death of sister Guelma McLean; Miss Anthony's letter of grief to mother; generous gift of Anson Lapham.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

The squire was not insensible to the advantages of such a match, and declared he would promote it with all his influence; but when I took notice that there seemed to be an aversion on the side of Liddy, he said he would sound her on the subject; and if her reluctance was such as would not be easily overcome, he would civilly decline the proposal of Mr Barton; for he thought that, in the choice of a husband a young woman ought not to sacrifice the feelings of her heart for any consideration upon earth—‘Liddy is not so desperate (said he) as to worship fortune at such an expence.’
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

The portion which relates to the reduction of the population of Batangas province reads as follows: The mortality, caused no longer by the war, but by disease, such as malaria and dysentery, has reduced to a little over 200,000 the more than 300,000 inhabitants which in former years the province had.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

And no doubt, if the Worship of false Gods had not blinded the Heathen, their moral Philosophy would have gone farther than [Pg 406] to the four Cardinal Virtues; and instead of teaching the Transmigration of Souls, and to worship the Sun and Moon, and dead Heroes, they would have taught us to worship our true Author and Benefactor, as their Ancestors did under the Government of Noah and his Sons before they corrupted themselves.
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton

Again he leaned from his saddle at midday and dipped his broad-leafed hat in the cool marsh waters which plashed pleasantly around his horse’s feet.
— from The Squatter's Dream: A Story of Australian Life by Rolf Boldrewood

But this Victory More broke our State, and made a deeper hurt In Flanders , than the greatest overthrow She ever receiv'd: For Wolfort , now beholding Himself, and actions, in the flattering glass Of self-deservings, and that cherish't by
— from Beggars Bush: A Comedy From the Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher (Volume 2 of 10) by John Fletcher

He studied a minit, an' den he tell me ter come go 'long wid 'im. He cut 'cross de squar' an' went right ter ol' Joshaway's bank, me a-follerin' right at his heels.
— from Scribner's Magazine, Volume 26, October 1899 by Various

“Yes,” she answered, meeting and disconcerting his pleasantly questioning look with one of swift resolve.
— from Other Things Being Equal by Emma Wolf

Her confessor, who stood by her until the last, gently pointed out to her the uselessness of such appeals, at such a moment, and directed her hopes towards Heaven.
— from The Judicial Murder of Mary E. Surratt by David Miller DeWitt

And three swift, burning words revealed to the horrified Paul de Géry the shocking scene of that assault disguised by loving guardianship, against which the girl's spirit and mind and dreams had had to struggle so long, and which had left her the incurable depression of premature sorrow, a loathing for life almost before it had begun, and that curl at the corner of the lip like the visible wreck of a smile.
— from The Nabob, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Alphonse Daudet

The morning and its dreams were gliding away—or, at least, Colin thought so; and this clear daylight, which began to come in, dissipating all the magical effects of sunshine and mist and dew, had to be faced as he best could.
— from A Son of the Soil by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

For gatherings such as smokers and movies, all divisions have equal privileges at the scene of assemblage.
— from The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2 by United States. Department of Defense

When the servant appeared, Mrs. Abercrombie directed her to take Ben downstairs, and give him something to eat.
— from Ben, the Luggage Boy; Or, Among the Wharves by Alger, Horatio, Jr.