From the suddenly loosened talons a figure plummeted downward, screamed as it fell, stopped screaming as it crunched against the ground.
— from Sinister Paradise by Robert Moore Williams

What wonder that the boys sold into such cruel slavery should be estranged from the fathers who for a few paltry ducats sell the liberty and happiness of their children.
— from Phil, the Fiddler by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

By comparison with that, the earl's succumbing or surviving was a trivial matter; and the concern they had manifested in Sir James' news—when the important, well-nourished physician who had bled his lordship came to inform them that there was hope—was outward only, and assumed for pure decorum's sake.
— from The Lion's Skin by Rafael Sabatini

An article upon the “Esoteric character of the [Pg 23] Gospels” in Madam Blavatsky’s Lucifer (November 1887) says: Spirit or the Holy Ghost was feminine with the Jews as most ancient peoples and it was so with the early Christians; Sophia of the Gnostics and the third Sephiroth, Binah (the female Jehovah of the Cabalists,) are feminine principles “Divine Spirit” or Ruach, “One is She the spirit of the Elohim of Life,” is said in Sepher Yetzirah.
— from Woman, Church & State The Original Exposé of Male Collaboration Against the Female Sex by Matilda Joslyn Gage

Mr. Heads took a more cheerful view of his situation and surroundings, and stated that when Messrs. Redgrave and Waldron had arrived and fairly put down stakes, he should look upon themselves as residents in a settled district.
— from The Squatter's Dream: A Story of Australian Life by Rolf Boldrewood

2. The most brilliant gifts are of no great value apart from personal diligence, such as distinguished Jeroboam.
— from Men of the Bible; Some Lesser-Known Characters by J. G. Greenhough