Fighting units were taken off their allotted duty and changed to labor units.
— from The Soul of John Brown by Stephen Graham

Sunken gray eyes, too dull and cold to light up, marked a hard, stony face, the salient feature of which was a thin-upped, compressed mouth, with corners drawn down deeply—the mouth which seems the world over to be the index of selfish, cruel, sulky malignance.
— from Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons by John McElroy

Seeing that he was totally unable to walk of his own accord, and in too dirty a condition to lean upon anyone's arm, a rough extempore litter was made, upon which the unfortunate knight was set and carried away, loudly lamenting the unkindness of the fate which had brought him to such a sorry plight.
— from Heiress of Haddon by W. E. (William Elliott) Doubleday

To get out from these comfortable homes and from the midst of tenderly cared-for little ones, and stand face to face with squalor and hunger, with suffering, debasement and crime, to look upon the starved faces of children and hear their helpless cries, is what scarcely one in a thousand will do.
— from Cast Adrift by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

Gunther can remain with the mountaineers, and if our provisions arrive from Prague, he can dispatch a courier to let us know it."
— from Joseph II. and His Court: An Historical Novel by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

They say: ‘This glorious deed does well deserve a Crown, thus let us feed his wild ambition, untill some bold avenging hand shall make him all our own.’
— from English Caricature and Satire on Napoleon I. Volume 2 (of 2) by John Ashton

If, then, it holds good, as a general rule, that in the same quarter of the globe the earth's crust tends to sink and rise contemporaneously over vast spaces, we can at once see, that we have at distant points, at the same period, those very conditions which appear to be requisite for the accumulation of fossiliferous masses of sufficient extension, thickness, and hardness, to resist denudation, and consequently to last unto an epoch distant in futurity.
— from Geological Observations on South America by Charles Darwin

Another gentleman, florid of countenance and absolutely without neck, was quickly checked in the act of giving his name at one of the desks; one clerk desiring another clerk to look, under the head of "A.," in his book, for " Apoplexy ," and let this man see that we can't take such a risk as he is on any terms.
— from Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 24, September 10, 1870 by Various

thy servant has been obedient to the heavenly vision which thou gavest him in his native land; and under the shadow of thine outstretched arm, he has safely arrived in this place to dedicate and consecrate this land unto Thee, for the gathering together of Judah's scattered remnants, according to the predictions of the holy prophets—for the building up of Jerusalem again after it has been trodden down by the Gentiles so long, and for rearing a temple in honour of thy name.
— from A Voice from Jerusalem Or, A Sketch of the Travels and Ministry of Elder Orson Hyde by Orson Hyde