Fortunately, the train was still going at a comparatively slow speed; fortunately also, Rilla retained enough sense to jump the way it was going; nevertheless, she fell and sprawled helplessly down the embankment, landing in a ditch full of a rank growth of golden-rod and fireweed.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

[8] St. Jerome, in Ep. 70, addressed to Magnus, a Roman rhetorician, expressly says that Justin Martyr imitated Aristides.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Acts of the Apostles, Vol. 1 by George Thomas Stokes

A motion made to adjourn sine die at 2 o'clock P.M., was lost; and a resolution restricting each speaker to five minute speeches was adopted.
— from The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916 by Various

As a whole, Merry Minutes constitutes a rather remarkable enterprise, sustaining through troubled times the spark of activity which will kindle anew the fires of British amateur journalism after the victorious close of the war.
— from Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 by H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft

In the same case it was held that a rule requiring every scholar to read a particular version of the Bible, though it may be against the conscience of some to do so, does not violate the letter or spirit of the constitution.
— from The Clergyman's Hand-book of Law: The Law of Church and Grave by Charles Martin Scanlan

In front of us, and on the other side of a deep valley covered with rocks, was another rocky ridge, exactly similar to that upon which we were lying; and from this the enemy's bullets were still shrieking and whistling over our heads, fired, doubtless, from chinks and crevices between rocks similar to those we were now using.
— from Two Years on Trek: Being Some Account of the Royal Sussex Regiment in South Africa by Louis Eugène Du Moulin

Two days before crossing the line we ran into a north-western monsoon, a rather rare experience, so that the doldrums became quite a lively place.
— from The Wanderings of a Spiritualist by Arthur Conan Doyle

According to all accounts, Delaney and Haynes have been leading a rather rapid existence since they came to New York.
— from The Social Gangster by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve