These characteristics are not found in the moral maxims of Common Sense.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

“Where is it?” Kuzka’s face was working with terror; he ran up and down near the cart, and not finding it there, ran to the gate and then to the shed.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Then all the Winged Monkeys, with much laughing and chattering and noise, flew into the air and were soon out of sight.
— from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

I have short black hair and green eyes; besides which, I am a thin child and not fair in the least.
— from A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time by Frances Hodgson Burnett

It might even be said that wherever solemnity, seriousness, mystery, and gloomy colours are now found in the life of the men and of nations of the world, there is some survival of that horror which was once the universal concomitant of all promises, pledges, and obligations.
— from The Genealogy of Morals The Complete Works, Volume Thirteen, edited by Dr. Oscar Levy. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Except as to Mindanao, which cut absolutely no figure in the insurrection until well toward the end of the guerrilla part of it, we have already examined this claim and found by careful analysis that it was absolutely true by the end of December, 1898.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

The offerings of lambs and bullocks in sacrifice was dispensed with, as it had pointed to the coming atonement now fulfilled in the Messiah.
— from Cowley's Talks on Doctrine by Matthias F. Cowley

It was too late, and D'Orville, unable to bear her lamentations, suddenly rushed from the castle, and nearly fell into the hands of the Spaniards as he fled from the scene.
— from History of the United Netherlands, 1590-99 — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

Their campaigns are not fought in temperate climates and civilised countries.
— from The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War by Winston Churchill

There were many strictly camp awards, not found in the handbook.
— from Tom Slade's Double Dare by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

As mentioned on p. 103 , Laveran and Franchini (1913), working in Paris, have succeeded in inoculating Herpetomonas ctenocephali , a natural flagellate in the gut of the flea, Ctenocephalus canis , into white mice.
— from The Animal Parasites of Man by Fred. V. (Frederick Vincent) Theobald

In plants, according to Schleiden, cells are never formed in the intercellular substance—the cytoblastem is within the cells; but extracellular cell formation seems to be the general rule in animals.
— from Form and Function: A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell

There is a class of persons who are accustomed to tell us that there is no dogma in the New Testament, by which they appear to mean that the particular dogmatic affirmations of the Creed are not formulated in the pages of the New Testament, but are of later production.
— from Our Lady Saint Mary by J. G. H. (Joseph Gayle Hurd) Barry

Theer wor aw mak o' queer things said about Jenny Crum an Needham Farm i' th' owd days.
— from The History of David Grieve by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.