Men and women are so different in manifestations of nervous strength or weakness!
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

He had with him those three legions that had accompanied his father when he laid Judea waste, together with that twelfth legion which had been formerly beaten with Cestius; which legion, as it was otherwise remarkable for its valor, so did it march on now with greater alacrity to avenge themselves on the Jews, as remembering what they had formerly suffered from them.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

I tried to make out his sense without the help of the compiler's notes, jotting down in my own note book all the more obscure words with their context as many times as they occurred.
— from My Reminiscences by Rabindranath Tagore

Lucy Stone when appealed to with the intimation that she was losing interest in the work, replied: "Now that I occupy a legal position in which I can not even draw in my own name the money I have earned or give a valid receipt for it when it is drawn or make any contract, but am rated with fools, minors and madmen, and can not sign a legal document without being examined separately to see if it is by my own free will, and even the right to my own name questioned, do you think that, in the grip of such pincers, I am likely to grow remiss?...
— 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

That they would come on the instant that the intelligence reached Baville of what had been done in Montvert over night it was impossible to doubt.
— from The Scourge of God: A Romance of Religious Persecution by John Bloundelle-Burton

XV; "Departure and Death of Nelson," Southey; Montcalm and Wolfe , Parkman; "The Crusader and the Saracen," in Scott's The Talisman ; "The Heroine of Castle Dangerous," in Stories of New France , Machar and Marquis; "Adam Daulac," in Martyrs of New France , Herrington.
— from Ontario Teachers' Manuals: History by Ontario. Department of Education

Among them it was specially characterized by the prevalence of ecstatic visions, often deteriorating into manifestations of nervous affections which superstitious people regarded as exhibitions of miraculous power.
— from Church History, Volume 2 (of 3) by J. H. (Johann Heinrich) Kurtz

My sleep had somewhat refreshed me; but my hunger, the cravings of which had aroused me, was now so torturing that I resolved to appease it at every hazard, especially as I felt that unless this was done, I must of necessity soon give way again.
— from Hammer and Anvil: A Novel by Friedrich Spielhagen

We would willingly have hastened our horses, but it was impossible: for the roads are either two feet deep in mud or newly repaired with beds 362 of loose stones, into which they sank to the fetlock.
— from A Ride on Horseback to Florence Through France and Switzerland. Vol. 2 of 2 Described in a Series of Letters by a Lady by Augusta Macgregor Holmes

Dahn interprets 'moderato ordine,' 'not so absolutely as the Roman clergy desires.' Is not this to attribute rather too much force to the conventional language of Cassiodorus?
— from The Letters of Cassiodorus Being a Condensed Translation of the Variae Epistolae of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator by Senator Cassiodorus

In the Arctic regions, hunting and collecting must be done in midsummer, or not at all.
— from Taxidermy and Zoological Collecting A Complete Handbook for the Amateur Taxidermist, Collector, Osteologist, Museum-Builder, Sportsman, and Traveller by W. J. (William Jacob) Holland