There are friends of humanity who feel their souls shrink from any compromise with murder, but whose deep and abiding reverence for womanhood causes them to hesitate in giving their support to this crusade against Lynch Law, out of fear that they may encourage the miscreants whose deeds are worse than murder.
— from The Red Record Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States by Ida B. Wells-Barnett

For months it was believed at the German Embassy in London that England was faced with volcanic labour disturbances; Sir Edward Carson and Lady Londonderry on one side, Mr. Asquith and Mr. Birrell on the other had brought Ireland to the brink of civil war; and a government which could not restrain unruly women from breaking windows and burning churches was not an efficient machine for waging a war in which the last ounce of ability and determination would tip the balance.
— from While I Remember by Stephen McKenna

Before Trudaine could answer, Lomaque looked out of the cottage window.
— from After Dark by Wilkie Collins

John Bates of Skimeno in Upper York County, a large land owner, operated two mills, one on his plantation [29] called "Pease Hill creek mill" and the other, "Okenneck," a water-grist-mill.
— from Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century by Annie Lash Jester

The ordinary star-fish is carnivorous, and lives largely on ordinary mussels, which it bridges over with its arms, and opens by a steady and long-continued pulling, the soft parts being then sucked up by the partially protruded stomach.
— from Evolution by James A. S. (James Anderson Scott) Watson

Again I stood on the heights, close to the verge of the steep chalk-cliff, and looked longingly out over the blue sea, where on the farthest horizon a little cloud marked the spot where the steamer which I had been watching for an hour had disappeared, while in the middle distance glittered the sails of a pair of fishing-boats.
— from Hammer and Anvil: A Novel by Friedrich Spielhagen

Or they might cause a leak, say by buckling a hatch, which the pumps could not keep under; or puncture the external oil-tanks, which would cause a large loss of oil fuel; or the periscope bases might be shaken or damaged; or the hydroplanes might be forced hard up or hard down, making them difficult to work and causing the boat to get out of control.
— from The Spider Web: The Romance of a Flying-Boat War Flight by T. D. Hallam

He was dressed with a scrupulous niceness, and carried a long light overcoat on his arm.
— from The Story of Julia Page by Kathleen Thompson Norris