And so she pulled her hat further over her face, and brisked up her steps in the direction of the BRAUSTRASSE—a street which she disliked, and never entered if she could avoid it.
— from Maurice Guest by Henry Handel Richardson

"I think it is a very noble thing for her to do, and nobody, either in Stornoway or anywhere else, would be such a brute as to laugh at her for trying to help those poor people, who have not too many friends and defenders, God knows!"
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 by Various

At his death a new epoch is seen to begin.
— from Outlines of Universal History, Designed as a Text-book and for Private Reading by George Park Fisher

Men find themselves suddenly alone, with all their friends dead, and no enemy in sight, but the rush of bullets filling the air.
— from Gallipoli by John Masefield

The personality of Andrew Jackson, representing as he does a new element in social and political life, deserves a careful study.
— from A Short History of the United States for School Use by Edward Channing

Even in those species in which the two disks are normally equal, individual spicules may be found in which the equality is only approximate, while, on the other hand, it is by no means uncommon for individual spicules in such species as "Tubella" pennsylvanica , which is here included in Trochospongilla , to have the two disks nearly equal, although normally the upper one is much smaller than the lower.
— from Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa by Nelson Annandale

The outlook is enough to make you shudder, and feel grateful that instead of having to turn out in such weather, you may dive back again into the tent, and down the companionway into your warm bunk; but soon, no doubt, Johansen and I will have to face it out, day and night, even in such weather as this, whether we like it or not.
— from Farthest North, Vol. II Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 by Fridtjof Nansen

Not only is this influence evident in his symphonic poems—some of his best work—but it is to be found in his suites for orchestra, his fantasias, and his rhapsodies, where the descriptive and narrative element is strong.
— from Musicians of To-Day by Romain Rolland