It is a universal tendency, of course, and displays itself everywhere; in religion, in morality, in fashions, in vices, in simple conversation—everywhere.
— from To-morrow? by Victoria Cross

I walked it often, for it led out along the edge of the brown cliffs through a wild and uninhabited tract of country, a district which until ten years ago had been dangerous on account of a band of lawless brigands.
— from The Closed Book: Concerning the Secret of the Borgias by William Le Queux

AFTER JUSTINIAN.—During the century and a half that followed the death of Justinian, the history of the Byzantine court and empire is an almost unbroken tale of crime and degeneracy.
— from Outlines of Universal History, Designed as a Text-book and for Private Reading by George Park Fisher

The proposal to sacrifice swine in the temple would hardly have excited greater horror and indignation in Jerusalem of old than would among us that of conferring a distinction of rank upon our most eminent citizen.
— from Progress and Poverty, Volumes I and II An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth by Henry George

These passages are covered by a slide-valve, V , which moves back and forth in the steam-chest, alternately uncovering the openings c and d .
— from The American Railway: Its Construction, Development, Management, and Appliances by Thomas Curtis Clarke