It was a name full of A's, and the echoes of it came back out of the uttermost parts of space.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

It has been one of those unaccountable proceedings which do sometimes occur, and which causes misery to two very excellent people.
— from The Manoeuvring Mother (vol. 1 of 3) by Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady

With the Southern states claiming to be out of the Union, people were wild to know what the President would say.
— from History of California by Helen Elliott Bandini

Yet this appeared to be one of the unavoidable penalties incurred by those who engaged in the art of photodrama.
— from Merton of the Movies by Harry Leon Wilson

'Lord Marischal,' writes Hume, 'had a very bad opinion of this unfortunate prince; and thought there was no vice so mean or atrocious of which he was not capable; of which he gave me several instances.'
— from Life of Johnson, Volume 5 Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into North Wales (1774) by James Boswell

Why they did this has been one of the unsolved problems of my life.
— from Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons by John McElroy

The somites following the second are formed in the regular manner, from before backwards, out of the unsegmented posterior part of the embryo, which rapidly grows in length to supply the necessary material ( fig. 103 ).
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 3 (of 4) A Treatise on Comparative Embryology: Vertebrata by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour

A sense of reserve and embarrassment had sprung up in his mind, checking that free mental communion which, as he now perceived, had been one of the unconscious promoters of their friendship.
— from The Fruit of the Tree by Edith Wharton

Ever since that time I've been of opinion, that unless people, 'who row in the same boat,' understand each other, they'll never get along—" I smiled at this lengthy prologue, not conceiving to what it could possibly lead.
— from Sketches by Seymour — Volume 05 by Robert Seymour

Then again, as the Austrian Red Cross was undoubtedly searching for victims of that fusillade, there was a [230] chance that this might be one of their units pursuing a mission of mercy.
— from Motor Boat Boys Down the Danube; or, Four Chums Abroad by Louis Arundel

No one would have accused her of being one of those uncomfortable persons who are always guided by an inflexible sense of justice, nor could it be said that she was unintelligently unjust.
— from That Fortune by Charles Dudley Warner