A few mornings after this the big bully was found dead in bed; his death being caused by a blow in the back of the head, received in a fall.
— from Beggars by W. H. (William Henry) Davies

If a man considers a wrong road to be a right one, then his every step leads him only farther from his aim: a man who has been walking for a long time on a wrong road may find out for himself, or be told by others, that his road is a wrong one; but if he, being afraid of the thought how far he has gone astray, tries to assure himself that he may, by following this wrong course, still come across the right one, then he will certainly never find it.
— from What Shall We Do? by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

It is to know and penetrate fatality that human reason tends; it is to conform to it that liberty aspires; and the criticism in which we are now engaged of the spontaneous development and instinctive beliefs of the human race is at bottom only a study of fatality.
— from System of Economical Contradictions; Or, The Philosophy of Misery by P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) Proudhon

On breaking off, the hartebeest ran in a right line, and the hounds followed straight after.
— from Popular Adventure Tales by Mayne Reid

On the north-east there is another street of columns at the bottom of the hill, running in a line oblique to the sides of the upper colonnade.
— from Tent Work in Palestine: A Record of Discovery and Adventure by C. R. (Claude Reignier) Conder

This endowment is the most praiseworthy power of man, for through its employment and exercise, the betterment of the human race is accomplished, the development of the virtues of mankind is made possible and the spirit and mysteries of God become manifest.
— from Foundations of World Unity by `Abdu'l-Bahá

They wasted their rage on the senseless statue of the pope, which they overturned, and, breaking off the head, rolled it, amidst the groans and execrations of the by-standers, into the Tiber.
— from History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 by William Hickling Prescott

The process of sinking open cribs through the water by weighting them and dredging out the material was followed at the new bridge recently built over the Hudson at Poughkeepsie, where the cribs were sunk 130 feet below water, and at the bridge building over the Hawkesbury River, in Australia.
— from The American Railway: Its Construction, Development, Management, and Appliances by Thomas Curtis Clarke

The survival of a partial cheek pouch in some branches of the human race is a point that escaped Darwin.
— from Behind the Bungalow by Edward Hamilton Aitken