Again Moncharmin's last phrase so dearly expressed the suspicion in which he now held his partner that it was bound to cause a stormy explanation, at the end of which it was agreed that Richard should yield to all Moncharmin's wishes, with the object of helping him to discover the miscreant who was victimizing them.
— from The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

The entire confines of the building, which crowns a slight eminence at the entrance of the town, are now given over to the use of the military authorities.
— from The Cathedrals of Northern France by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

In the city of New York, on the 31st day of January, 1918, we in conference assembled under the auspices of the National League on Urban Conditions among Negroes, while in no way seeking to condone the existence of the worldwide war which has been forced upon our beloved country, wish to express our gratitude for the industrial changes wrought and to record our prayer that the benefits thus far derived by the negro may continue and so enlarge as to embrace full and fair opportunity in all the walks of life.
— from Negro Migration during the War by Emmett J. (Emmett Jay) Scott

The drives and pedestrian excursions about Corsica are superb, especially along the east side and up the centre by Sartène, Zicavo and Ghisoni ( p. 27 ), and the road between Calvi and Ponte alla Leccia ( p. 20 ).
— from Itinerary through Corsica by its Rail, Carriage & Forest Roads by C. B. Black

Only the dullest and most turgid imagination will consent to believe that the horrible conditions of competitive struggle will be permitted to foster only the lower faculties, as greed, selfishness, unscrupulous cunning and subtle evasiveness, at the expense of all the finer characteristics of man.
— from A Hundred Years Hence: The Expectations of an Optimist by T. Baron Russell

The chase and slaughter extended almost to Edinburgh, upon the one part, and be-west Dalkeith upon the other.
— from The History of the Reformation of Religion in Scotland With Which Are Included Knox's Confession and The Book of Discipline by John Knox

She was sitting with flushed cheeks and swimming eyes at the end of the table opposite to the clergyman.
— from The Wheels of Chance: A Bicycling Idyll by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

He could not endure another listener so hard-hearted as the squire; he craved a sympathetic ear, a tender eye,—a feminine eye and ear, in short.
— from Katy Gaumer by Elsie Singmaster