The fact of the presence of a significant irritation is important for passing judgment, and renders it necessary to observe with the most thorough certainty how this irritation comes about.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

She was dressed as though she were at home, but fashionably and with taste, as ladies are, as a rule, in N. “‘This one would do nicely,’ I thought, looking at her handsome figure and her arms; ‘she is all right. . . .
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

"At any rate, I never talk of them, Mr. Bertram."
— from The Bertrams by Anthony Trollope

Alan Rush is not the only one.
— from The Californians by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

Yet we are right in never thinking of the Great Man first as a soldier, he was so much besides.
— from History of the United States, Volume 2 by Elisha Benjamin Andrews

This does well enough on paper, but starving men have no time to put this plan to the test of practice, and when they find that a river is not the one
— from The Barren Ground of Northern Canada by Warburton Pike

Will all the people working in the print media be able to get training and retraining in new technologies, or will they be violently hit by unemployment?
— from From the Print Media to the Internet by Marie Lebert

Wherefore the bottom insects, very few in number, obeying the preponderant influence, that of the atmosphere, make for the lower outlet and reverse, if necessary, their original position; those above, on the contrary, who form the great majority, being guided only by gravity when the upper end is closed, make for that upper end.
— from Bramble-Bees and Others by Jean-Henri Fabre

She had her courage, but the unexpectedness of Anne and the force of her, as if for all these years she had been winding up her will, which now came into play like a spring immensely braced in super-tightened coils, caused her to want an ally and she agreed that Dubby had a right if not the one conferred on him by Anne.
— from The Marbeck Inn: A Novel by Harold Brighouse

A few beds of Archeozoic age remain in nearly their original condition, but they are either without fossils or they have produced very questionable and unsatisfactory specimens.
— from Fossils: A Story of the Rocks and Their Record of Prehistoric Life by Harvey C. Markman