So he travelled onwards, over a grand, lofty chain of mountains, over rugged,—rocky precipices, and along roads that hung on the mountain's side like a swallow's nest.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

It means rather consistency of mode of response in reference to the plurality of events which occur.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

My eyes closed of themselves, and I passed gradually into a strange condition, which was not waking—for I knew nothing of what was going on about me, and not sleeping—for I was conscious of my own repose.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

I followed the procession and wept aloud as I saw little children of my own race follow the unfortunate man and taunt him with jeers.
— from The Red Record Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States by Ida B. Wells-Barnett

The penetration of Ambrose had discovered the snares of an enemy under the professions of friendship; 73 but the Syrian Domninus was corrupted, or deceived, by the liberal favor of the court of Treves; and the council of Milan obstinately rejected the suspicion of danger, with a blind confidence, which was the effect, not of courage, but of fear.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

No man would think of speaking falsely with him, or of putting him off with any chat of markets or reading-rooms.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Every invasion or collision or mingling of races thus brought their respective religions into contact and rivalry; and as no priesthood has been known to consent peaceably to its own downfall and the degradation of its own deities, we need not wonder that there have been perpetual wars for religious ascendency.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

In the chapters on Memory, on Reasoning, and on Perception the same assumption will meet us again, and again will have to be rejected as groundless.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

The evening after my arrival in Toronto from the Red River expedition I wrote a letter to my parents, and also one to a cousin of my own residing in London.
— from The Black-Sealed Letter Or, The Misfortunes of a Canadian Cockney. by Andrew Learmont Spedon

Here is a wandering cluster of men, or rather of families, concerning which, considered as an aggregate, little more can be said than can be said of a transitory crowd: the group considered as a whole is to be described not so much by characters as by the absence of characters.
— from Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, November 1898 Volume 54, November 1898 by Various

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— from A Likely Story by William Dean Howells

Not till a week after he had left home for London came a letter 'Dear Ethel, 'I have told Fleet that I am convinced of my only right course.
— from The Trial; Or, More Links of the Daisy Chain by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

Things went better yesterday on the whole, though the mercury fell to zero in the night, and I was awakened several times by the cold of my open room, and when a number of people came at daylight for medicines my fingers were so benumbed that I could scarcely measure them.
— from Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume 1 (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird

Then we begin to turn our thoughts to the sheep-dog as a carrier of messengers, or rather to the smuggler's dog, thousands of which are known to exist on the Belgian and Swiss frontiers.
— from An Englishman in Paris: Notes and Recollections by Albert D. (Albert Dresden) Vandam

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— from On Canada's Frontier Sketches of History, Sport, and Adventure and of the Indians, Missionaries, Fur-traders, and Newer Settlers of Western Canada by Julian Ralph

A few days after reaching Fort Reno, one company was detached, leaving me but two companies of my own regiment.
— from My Story by Anson Mills