At last the evil reached such a pitch that the people rose, and with indiscriminate fury destroyed good and bad alike.
— from Erewhon; Or, Over the Range by Samuel Butler

It agrees 203 wholly with R. emetica in structure and stature, as well as in the acrid taste ; it differs however in the stem being slightly recticulato-wrinkled, white becoming cinereous, in the adnate pellicle of the pileus, in the margin remaining for a long time even (remotely striate, but not tubercular, only when old), and in the gills being rounded behind and becoming pale.
— from Toadstools, mushrooms, fungi, edible and poisonous; one thousand American fungi How to select and cook the edible; how to distinguish and avoid the poisonous, with full botanic descriptions. Toadstool poisons and their treatment, instructions to students, recipes for cooking, etc., etc. by Charles McIlvaine

They demanded, in arrogant language, that every respect should be paid to the caste feelings of Nundcomar during his imprisonment; and whilst the trial was proceeding they addressed the Chief Justice in the language of reprimand, as though they had been his superiors.
— from India Under British Rule from the Foundation of the East India Company by James Talboys Wheeler

And now he began to get a little hungry, and very thirsty; for he had run a long way, and the sun had risen high in heaven, and the rock was as hot as an oven, and the air danced reels over it, as it does over a limekiln, till everything round seemed quivering and melting in the glare.
— from The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby by Charles Kingsley

Also the public action of at least the European races, stimulated and guided by Christianity, has been inspired by faith in progress and in a reign of justice, and has applied itself to improve the conditions of men.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Philippians by Robert Rainy

At last the envious river swept us around a masking hill.
— from A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois by Robert Ames Bennet