Kedzie would nod with impatient zest and one could read each gradation of thought.
— from We Can't Have Everything: A Novel by Rupert Hughes

The young Duchess Agnes noticed whither he looked so often, but when Countess Cordula knelt beside the Ortliebs, cordially returned every glance of the knight's, and once even nodded slightly to him, the young Bohemian believed the report that Heinz Schorlin and the countess were the same as betrothed, and it vexed her—nay, spoiled the whole of the day which had just begun.
— from In the Fire of the Forge: A Romance of Old Nuremberg — Volume 05 by Georg Ebers

We scarce know what to make of the origin of Adonis, and of the legends which treat him as a hero—the representation of him as the incestuous offspring of a certain King Kinyras and his own daughter Myrrha is a comparatively recent element grafted on the original myth; at any rate, the happiness of two lovers had lasted but a few short weeks when a sudden end was put to it by the tusks of a monstrous wild boar.
— from History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 4 (of 12) by G. (Gaston) Maspero

A certain recklessness easily grows out of the disturbed emotional nature and excesses lie not far beyond.
— from Training the Teacher by Marion Lawrance

The constantly repeated expression, good or favourable nourishment, is not only vague but misleading, because circumstances favourable to growth differ from those which promote reproduction; for the production of every form there are certain favourable conditions of nourishment, which may be defined for each species.
— from Darwin and Modern Science by A. C. (Albert Charles) Seward

435 In 1838 the church was strengthened by the appointment of a chaplain, Rev. Ezekiel Gear of Galena.
— from Old Fort Snelling, 1819-1858 by Marcus Lee Hansen

His body was never found; but this inscription was erected to his memory: Hereabout died A Very Gallant Gentleman Capt. R. E. G. Oates Inniskillen Dragoons, who on the return from the Pole in March, 1912, willingly walked to his death in a blizzard to try and save his comrades beset by hardship.
— from The Mentor: The Conquest of the Poles, Serial No. 37 by Robert E. (Robert Edwin) Peary

The lines of determination, similarly, about the mouth, are those of the individual who has the courage to say "No" to the tempting morsel when he doesn't need it; and the lines of weakness and irresolution are those of the nature which cannot resist either gastronomic or other temptation.
— from Preventable Diseases by Woods Hutchinson