But in the evening one is in the dark, and hence even the little light of a single candle is enough to enable one to see.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

“We went to the park and I sat down on a chair and took her out of the pram and a big dog came along and put its head on my knee and she clutched its ear, tugged it.
— from Bliss, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

A shot came in every two minutes, but always badly aimed.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

The custom is gone now, and we wonder why; but the days are changed, and some call it education that is so far doing this; it cannot be education, for we do look for more respect from the educated than from the class that we called the ignorant.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Chinaman is Jehu's rival for last place, and as some compensation is easy to harness.
— from The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913 by Apsley Cherry-Garrard

But the quantity actually drawn in and thrown out, during ordinary inspirations and expirations, amounts to about sixteen cubic inches each time.
— from The History of Chemistry, Volume 2 (of 2) by Thomas Thomson

A stiff course, if ever there was one; and the time allowed, ten short minutes.
— from Bob, Son of Battle by Alfred Ollivant

She was rather tall than otherwise, a brunette, with blue eyes of the most varied expression, in figure perfect, with a most exquisite bosom; her face, without being beautiful, was charming; she was extremely noble in air, very majestic in demeanour, full of graces so natural and so continual in everything, that I have never seen any one approach her, either in form or mind.
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various

I do not say that all the symbolism in Prout’s Sketch is the best possible; but it is the best which any architectural draughtsman has yet invented; and in its application to special subjects it always shows curious internal evidence that the sketch has been made on the spot, and that the artist tried to draw what he saw, not to invent an attractive subject.
— from The Stones of Venice, Volume 1 (of 3) by John Ruskin

Many Americans seem curiously indifferent even to the comfort of being able to speak their own language in England; probably because they have less false shame than the average Englishman in adventuring among the pitfalls of a foreign tongue.
— from America To-day, Observations and Reflections by William Archer

More money will be left in the hands of the consumer by a substantial cut in excise taxes.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

Were such a scheme carried into effect, Tidkins must know who his prisoner was, and by whom he was employed.
— from The Mysteries of London, v. 2/4 by George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds