His nerves were still unstrung from his experience with the car, and ready enough to shape familiar objects into ghosts.
— from The Splendid Fairing by Constance Holme

She could, she reasoned, conduct a rival establishment that should wean the soldier from the false faith to the true, and to this end she sought the aid of the cassock.
— from A Soldier's Trial: An Episode of the Canteen Crusade by Charles King

This is not the head of the army, but its heart, the holy flame of courage and religious enthusiasm, the sacred ark of the Mussulman, around which mountains of decapitated heads have been reared, torrents of human blood have flowed—the green ensign of the Prophet, the flag among flags, taken from its place in the mosque of Sultan Ahmed, and now floating in the midst of a ferocious mob of dervishes clad in lion and bear skins, a circle of rapt-looking preaching sheikhs in camel’s-hair cloaks, and two companies of emirs, descendants of the Prophet, wearing the green turban; all of whom together raise a hoarse clamor of shouts, prayers, shrill cries, and singing.
— from Constantinople, v. 1 (of 2) by Edmondo De Amicis

“Well,” he said at last, “they build good cottages, yellow brick, d—d ugly, I must say; look after the character of their tenants; give 'em rebate of rent if there's a bad harvest; encourage stock-breedin', and machinery—they've got some of my ploughs, but the people don't like 'em, and, as a matter of fact, they're right—they're not made for these small fields; set an example goin' to church; patronize the Rifle Range; buy up the pubs when they can, and run 'em themselves; send out jelly, and let people over their place on bank holidays.
— from The Works of John Galsworthy An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

A moment later, there came a response exactly the same, except that it sounded fainter and a considerable distance away.
— from Oonomoo the Huron by Edward Sylvester Ellis

In justice to modern poverty in forms it is fair to take into consideration the simple truth, so easily overlooked, that we have to write thirty letters where our ancestors wrote one; but the principle of sacrifice in courtesy always remains essentially the same; and if of our more precious and more occupied time we consecrate a smaller portion to forms, it is still essential that there should be no appearance of a desire to escape from the kind of obligation which we acknowledge.
— from Human Intercourse by Philip Gilbert Hamerton

The rain never kept me indoors, however, and I took exercise just the same, as I didn’t bother about clothes, and rather enjoyed the shower bath.
— from The Adventures of Louis de Rougemont by Louis de Rougemont

Also, a combination, or "conspiracy," among railroad employees to stop the running of trains was declared illegal.
— from Our Government: Local, State, and National: Idaho Edition by James Alton James

In other words, we can count the number 12,761 forward (or backward had the count been backward in our example) from the starting point 4 Ahau 8 Cumhu , and reach exactly the same terminal date as though we had counted forward 31,741, as in the first case.
— from An Introduction to the Study of the Maya Hieroglyphs by Sylvanus Griswold Morley