Although, as we have seen, there is both a good deal of ceremony attached to the transaction and a good deal of [ 359 ] decorum, one might even say commercial honour, implied in the technicalities of the exchange, there is much room left as well for quarrelling and friction.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

It so happened that, on the urgent solicitation of Van Winkle and of Governor Johnson; I had only a few days before agreed to accept the commission of major-general of the Second Division of Militia, embracing San Francisco.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

It passed in many convolutions about my limbs and body, leaving at liberty only my head, and my left arm to such extent that I could, by dint of much exertion, supply myself with food from an earthen dish which lay by my side on the floor.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

Our voyage to the North Pole being ended, I returned to London with Doctor Irving, with whom I continued for some time, during which I began seriously to reflect on the dangers I had escaped, particularly those of my last voyage, which made a lasting impression on my mind, and, by the grace of God, proved afterwards a mercy to me; it caused me to reflect deeply on my eternal state, and to seek the Lord with full purpose of heart ere it was too late.
— from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African Written By Himself by Olaudah Equiano

A few sallies by young Salcedo, the Cortez of the Philippine conquest, with a company of the splendid infantry, which was at that time the admiration and despair of martial Europe, soon effectively exorcised any idea of resistance that even the boldest and most intransigent of the native leaders might have entertained.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

She followed the direction of my eye, stroked down an upstarting frill, and coloured furiously.
— from The Lady of the Basement Flat by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

In addition, the two main subdivisions, rock and soft-ground tunneling, are each introduced by a model not of an actual working, but of one typifying early classical methods which were in use for centuries until the comparatively recent development of more efficient systems of earth support and rock breaking.
— from Tunnel Engineering: A Museum Treatment by Robert M. Vogel

When first I read the pamphlet of Accusation, I almost despaired of meeting effectively such a heap of misrepresentation and such a vehemence of animosity.
— from Apologia pro Vita Sua by John Henry Newman

For the facts and external data of mere experimental sciences can only so far belong to our present consideration, as they bear upon the inner experience of the consciousness and the knowledge of human nature—as well upon that more exalted experience (which is indeed contained in the former) of a higher destination imported and announced to man by God.
— from The philosophy of life, and philosophy of language, in a course of lectures by Friedrich von Schlegel

The development of modern Europe. SEE Robinson, James Harvey BEARD, CHARLES AUSTIN.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1957 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

Second, there never was any debate before me, either in public council or private committee, of the disloyalty or disaffection of my English subjects.
— from Cassell's History of England, Vol. 2 (of 8) From the Wars of the Roses to the Great Rebellion by Anonymous

Most discoveries of modern European science were known to them long before they were found out among us; agriculture, that first of arts, which most economists consider as the great test whereby to judge of the worth of a nation, is and always has been carried by them to a perfection unknown to us.
— from The Irish Race in the Past and the Present by Augustus J. Thébaud

O take not away the desire of mine eyes; spare my children, bless me in my labours, and I will mend and be better.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by John Bunyan