A memorable visit from Raleigh, who was now a neighbor of the poet's, having also received a part of the forfeited Desmond estate, led to the publication of the Faerie Queene .
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

It will be seen that by adopting these shrewd political methods there would not be much left for the convention proper to do except listen to the speeches, but it would be hard to compress into smaller space more sensible advice.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

They sat dejected on the ground with compressed lips and downcast eyes, listening to their comrade below.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

In this dangerous elevation, Leo the Third supported himself against the envy of his equals, the discontent of a powerful faction, and the assaults of his foreign and domestic enemies.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

The fields are not similar as pancakes; they have their difference; each leaps to the eye with a remembered and peculiar charm.
— from The House with the Green Shutters by George Douglas Brown

My whole study of the life in and around the plum-tree, carried on for the next two weeks, was of a spasmodic order, for I had always to take care that no spies were about before I dared even look toward the orchard.
— from Little Brothers of the Air by Olive Thorne Miller

Most of them dress exactly like the temple Battars, and a stranger would certainly take them for Battar Brāhmans.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 6 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

The Glenn Masain version makes Bricriu, who is a subordinate character in the older version, one of the principal actors, and explains many of the allusions which are difficult to understand in the shorter version; but it is not possible to regard the older version as an abridgment of that preserved in the Glenn Masain MS., for the end of the story in this manuscript is absolutely different from that in the older ones, and the romance appears to be unique in Irish in that it has versions which give two quite different endings, like the two versions of Kipling's The Light that Failed.
— from Heroic Romances of Ireland, Translated into English Prose and Verse — Volume 2 by Arthur Herbert Leahy

From his elevated position he estimates what degree of danger each living thing that moves on the open region around may threaten to his companions and himself.
— from Wild Spain (España agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration by Abel Chapman