And each time he witnessed these little scenes, there grew more strongly in him the original picture he had formed of them as beings rejected and alone, hunted by humanity as a whole, seeking escape from loneliness into a place of refuge that they knew of, definitely at last en route .
— from The Centaur by Algernon Blackwood

In the past, which this school of motor culture harks back to, work, for which our degenerate age lacks even respect, was indeed praise.
— from Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by G. Stanley (Granville Stanley) Hall

He showed that the House of Representatives, in a friendly spirit, had recently decided against laying extraordinary restrictions on British vessels in our ports.
— from Gouverneur Morris by Theodore Roosevelt

The skulls with the double and less elevated ridges belong, as proved by No. 1, to the Simia Wurmbii; and I am of opinion the single and higher ridge must be referred to another and distinct species, unless we can account for this difference on the score of age.
— from The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy by Rajah of Sarawak James

Peter Talbot, made papal Archbishop of Dublin a little earlier, reached his see about the same time as Plunket, and both were present at a national synod convened by the latter in June.
— from Ireland under the Stuarts and During the Interregnum, Vol. 3 (of 3), 1660-1690 by Richard Bagwell

222 “Throw it down and let ’em rip,” said Mr. Bagemall.
— from The Squatter's Dream: A Story of Australian Life by Rolf Boldrewood