You and I are true Russians, true believers, men of broad nature; all of these German and Jewish crochets are not for us.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The present nave, with the choir slightly out of axis, and the north aisle, were begun at the end of the thirteenth century and not finished until the sixteenth.
— from A Spring Walk in Provence by Archibald Marshall

But these supplementary consuls in the earlier period only occurred when merely one of the consuls had dropped out: pairs of supplementary consuls are not found until the later ages of the republic.
— from The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) by Theodor Mommsen

Separate circulating pumps, usually centrifugal, are now freely used, and the addition of a special pump for lifting the condensed water presents no difficulty whatever.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 492, June 6, 1885 by Various

Finding the fresh track of the deer, he cautiously and noiselessly follows up the trail, keeping a sharp lookout ahead.
— from Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making by W. Hamilton (William Hamilton) Gibson

He sees in imagination the splendid history of the church, and no fighter under Nelson could have witnessed this desolate funeral of the great ship with more anguish than Lowell has thrown into his pathetic words; but as the English sailor could have righted himself with a vision of the glories of the future English navy, so Lowell closes his dirge with a triumphant prophecy:— “Shall nevermore, engendered of thy fame, A new sea-eagle heir thy conqueror name, And with commissioned talons wrench From thy supplanter’s grimy clench His sheath of steel, his wings of smoke and flame?
— from James Russell Lowell, A Biography; vol 2/2 by Horace Elisha Scudder

The mountain coves and nooks far up toward the Virginia line had been among the most intense in loyalty to the nation.
— from Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 1: April 1861-November 1863 by Jacob D. (Jacob Dolson) Cox

Sordid money considerations are not for us.
— from The Green Flag, and Other Stories of War and Sport by Arthur Conan Doyle

A cry, a noise, fell upon his ears.
— from The Frontiersman: A Tale of the Yukon by H. A. (Hiram Alfred) Cody