He recommended me one of his servants as a guide, a rough, sinister-looking man, who, instead of taking the usual zig-zag paths up the mountain, led me up in a bee line, and I rather suspected he intended to tire me out.
— from My Life — Volume 2 by Richard Wagner

If a parent company raises money by the sale of bonds, and purchases its branches outright, or buys a majority of their shares, its interest charges will be large and its rentals small; if it leases these same lines its interest payments will be small and its rentals large.
— from Railroad Reorganization by Stuart Daggett

Only the utmost individual valor and persistency of the thin British line, as it retired still fighting, prevented the desperate and over-confident foe from turning the gradual retreat into a decisive defeat.
— from America's War for Humanity by Thomas Herbert Russell

To be exact, it was the 14th of May, and although the evening air was somewhat chilly, the days had become long, and I remembered standing a long time at the front of my little wooden hut, looking at the giant cliffs at whose feet the waves of the broad Atlantic rolled.
— from The Passion for Life by Joseph Hocking

Pink Upham used to stir up things quite often, but he seems to be very much absorbed in his business lately, and I rarely see him.
— from Mary Ware's Promised Land by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

‘Nothing—except to be left alone,’ I replied sourly.
— from Under the Red Robe by Stanley John Weyman

With Avery’s help he had built a snug winter camp near the three cabins, and although not in the best location available, it reflected some Celtic astuteness on David’s part, as it was centred on the prospective right-of-way of the new road.
— from Lost Farm Camp by Henry Herbert Knibbs