As for Christiane, under the unconscious pressure of Madame Icardon, her mother's old companion, who had become her intimate adviser since the Marquise's death, a pressure to which was added that of her father and the interested indifference of her brother, she consented to marry this big, overrich youth, who was not ugly but scarcely pleased her, just as she would have consented to spend a summer in a disagreeable country.
— from Mont Oriol; or, A Romance of Auvergne: A Novel by Guy de Maupassant

In this case, as in previous ones, we see that the transformation of the homogeneous into the heterogeneous is consequent upon the universal principle, that every active force produces more than one change.
— from Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library by Herbert Spencer

The dangerously cheap and inadequate character of the vital parts, built by the Company upon the usual promoter's estimates, had led Abe Lee to protest against the risk forced upon the settlers and had finally caused him to resign.
— from The Winning of Barbara Worth by Harold Bell Wright

Yard by yard they crept upon their unconscious prey.
— from Ti-Ti-Pu: A Boy of Red River by J. Macdonald (James Macdonald) Oxley

And what a dispiriting, unnerving influence this uncertainty of his position in life, consequent upon the unceasing progress of machinery, must exercise upon the worker, whose lot is precarious enough without it!
— from The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892 by Friedrich Engels

We perceived at once that it must be a Spittal of the old times; and W., who had been lingering behind, when he came up to us, pronounced it to be the very same where he and his companion had passed an awful night.
— from Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Dorothy Wordsworth

The D WARF S WALLOW-TAILED K ITE ( Chelidopterix Riocouri ) is of a greyish blue colour upon the upper part of the body, deeper in shade upon the head and shoulders than on the wings and tail.
— from Cassell's Book of Birds, Volume 2 (of 4) by Alfred Edmund Brehm

An extensive inflammation of the erysipelatous kind appeared without any apparent cause upon the upper part of the thigh of a sucking colt, the property of Mr. Millet, a farmer at Rockhampton, a village near Berkeley.
— from The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) by Various

Creeping up this unsavoury passage, they in their turn surprised and slew the Scotsmen.
— from Highways and Byways in the Border Illustrated by Andrew Lang