In the passage before us it lends dignity to his obstinate and obdurate endurance.
— from Studies of the Greek Poets (Vol 1 of 2) by John Addington Symonds

This is the task now set before us: it lies directly in our onward path—we cannot take a step really in advance until it is achieved.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

This, too, has often been used in labor disputes.
— from Problems in American Democracy by Thames Williamson

Towards morning the wind arose, and snow-drift began to whirl round the hut, and block up its low doorway.
— from Silver Lake by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

Wires under tension 8 Rubber cylinder, flattened by compression, lengthened by tension 9 Rubber joist compressed along top, extended along bottom 10 Girder cut from joist 10 Rubber I-beam suspended flatwise and edgewise 10 Girder contours simple, built up, in locomotive draw-bars 11 Steel ore car 12 Bulb angle column, New York Subway 12 Strap rail and stringer, Mohawk & Hudson R. R., 1830 13 Plimmon H. Dudley facing 14 Dudley rails 16 Steel cross-ties and rails
— from Inventors at Work, with Chapters on Discovery by George Iles

They take the fish one by one, spread them, back uppermost, in layers, distributing a proper quantity of salt between each.
— from The Sea Rovers by Rufus Rockwell Wilson

Like that personage he was imprisoned for debt, and thus Charles Dickens learned early in life the misery as well as the comedy of a debtor’s prison, an experience of which he made brilliant use in Little Dorrit and elsewhere.
— from Springtime and Other Essays by Darwin, Francis, Sir

In some ways the task before us is less difficult than that involved in the examination of the Gawain legend; the literature connected with Lancelot, if extensive, is not diffuse; by far the greater portion is covered by the prose Lancelot and the Grail Romances.
— from The Legend of Sir Lancelot du Lac Studies upon its Origin, Development, and Position in the Arthurian Romantic Cycle by Jessie L. (Jessie Laidlay) Weston