They found by experience, that the less economy they practised, and the more importunate their demands, the more likely they were to persuade the Government of India of the urgency of their requirements.
— from Rulers of India: The Earl of Mayo by William Wilson Hunter

As he neared his tent, he looked up at the stars, brilliant even through the lingering evening smoke from the cooking fires, and mused about Jadar.
— from The Moghul by Thomas Hoover

For, you see, this is to be a somewhat unusual transaction, and it may be embarrassing to the lady, even to myself.
— from The Lair of the White Worm by Bram Stoker

Bring each spoke across the next one and press it down beside the next, as in the border of the basket, except that the long end is not cut off, but brought out between the fourth and fifth rows of weaving on the under side of the mat.
— from The Child's Rainy Day Book by Mary White

Every trooper's eye gleamed with excitement, every thigh pressed the horse's flank, and every heart throbbed with unspeakable rapture at the thought that a chance might be gained to dash as an enfant perdu at the Golgotha where the dead friends should be, even though the living enemies were waiting to wrap and twine them in their grim embrace.
— from The Story of the Zulu Campaign by Edmund Verney Wyatt Edgell

There is a spot in the middle of the abdomen edged with black and a black band on each side of the head divided in front, the branches extending to the lateral eyes of both rows.
— from The Common Spiders of the United States by J. H. (James Henry) Emerton

I-261, I-262] became great rivals in their employment, and there were several trials of skill betwixt them; but the famous contest was at the Temple church, where a new organ was going to be erected towards the latter end of king Charles II.’s time.
— from The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 3 (of 3) Everlasting Calerdar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac by William Hone

The pilots and crews behaved with splendid gallantry, and not only took great risks, but endured to the last extremity of fatigue in that narrow, hot space where they work their engines and their guns.
— from From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917 by Philip Gibbs

Scuótere il pẻllicci ó ne, to vtter all, to tell all one knowes, to shake out all, to emptie the bag euen to the little eares or close corners.
— from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio

His thin, leaden features, his deadly paleness, the lurid brilliancy of his hollow eyes, showed the incessant progress of the slow malady which was consuming this unfortunate man, brought by excesses to the last extremity of weakness.
— from The Wandering Jew — Volume 09 by Eugène Sue