The Syrian state embraced at the most Mesopotamia in addition to the region of the coast, and disappeared, more in consequence of its internal disorganization than of its diminished size, for ever from the ranks of the great states.
— from The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) by Theodor Mommsen

I seemed to be prisoned in a narrow cell and, despite myself, I could not wholly keep from wondering what would happen, if the air pipe should break, or the rope snap.
— from The Man Who Ended War by Hollis Godfrey

'How did he get his commission?' asked Dr. Madden: 'I cannot say,' replied Hester, 'nor could any of the officers.
— from Secret Service Under Pitt by William J. (William John) Fitz-Patrick

This does not sound attractive; but as a matter of fact, the Manahiki castanet and drum music is curiously weird and thrilling, and arouses a desire for dancing even in the prosaic European.
— from In the Strange South Seas by Beatrice Grimshaw

With our common newts (Triton punctatus and cristatus) a deep, much indented crest is developed along the back and tail of the male during the breeding-season, which disappears during the winter.
— from The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex by Charles Darwin

To put pressure on others to do wrong; to urge them to trifle with their consciences, or knowingly to violate them; to press them to give a vote against their convictions;—all such methods of disturbing conscience and drawing men into crooked ways, what sin they involve!
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Second Book of Samuel by William Garden Blaikie

It belongs entirely to the lowlands, and is very crooked, has a slow current and divides much into canos and strings of lagoons which flood the flat, low areas of country on either side.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg