Although the late Monsieur Odintsov had disliked "innovations," he had not been opposed to the indulgence of "a certain play of refined taste," and had erected, in a space between the hothouses and the lake, a building modelled in the style of a Greek temple, but consisting of undeniable Russian bricks.
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

And, Sir, how futile, how very futile it is, to admit the right of state interference, and then attempt to save it from the character of unlawful resistance, by adding terms of qualification to the causes, and occasions, leaving all these qualifications, like the case itself, in the discretion of the state governments.
— from The American Quarterly Review, No. 18, June 1831 (Vol 9) by Various

Strains are thus set up which tend to separate the bulkier new material from the core of unaltered rock below.
— from Earth Features and Their Meaning An Introduction to Geology for the Student and the General Reader by William Herbert Hobbs

He was not unaware of the existence of roguery, or of the circulation of unfounded reports, but he did not look very commonly and cunningly for tricks and falsehood in the everyday movements of human life.
— from Penelope: or, Love's Labour Lost, Vol. 2 (of 3) by William Pitt Scargill

They are merely slipped into pocket strips at top and bottom, and will not come out unless removed by hand.
— from Premo Cameras, 1914 by Canadian Kodak Company

"I knew God would take care of us," replied Bert, promptly.
— from Bert Lloyd's Boyhood: A Story from Nova Scotia by J. Macdonald (James Macdonald) Oxley

Mrs. Wilson knew her situation too well to intrude with unseasonable consolation or useless reflections, but sat patiently by her side, waiting anxiously for the moment she could be of service.
— from Precaution: A Novel by James Fenimore Cooper

La porción urbana que servía de asiento a la iniciativa política y gubernamental de la comuna, ocupaba un radio bastante modesto.
— from Argentina, Legend and History by Lucio Vicente López

They had completed four months of exhausting and expensive trench duty, working by "internal reliefs," which really means no relief at all; each man staying his dour dogged heart with the only two consolations available in those days—the humdrum certainty of ultimate relief by another division, and the ever present possibility of a "Blighty" wound.
— from The Willing Horse: A Novel by Ian Hay

The dear friend may forgive freely and fully the bitter censure or unjust reproof, but a scar is left which, if touched in a moment of inadvertence, will pulse and throb with the remembrance of pain.
— from The Secret of a Happy Home (1896) by Marion Harland