And yet there was the incomprehensible fact staring me in the face that the death of Caroline and the disappearance of Uncle George had taken place in the same week!
— from The Queen of Hearts by Wilkie Collins

We conceived it would be less conspicuous if the dozen of us gathered here as if by accident.”
— from Over the Border: A Romance by Robert Barr

That is the reason why, while from reading René , for example, or Fraziella , Delphine , Corinne , Adolphe , Indiana , Volupté , or some of the romances of Balzac— La Muse du Departement , or Un Grand Homme de Province à Paris ,—you could induct Balzac's entire psychology, or Sainte-Beuve's, or Madame Sand's, Benjamin Constant's, Madame de Staël's or Chateaubriand's, you would find in Madame Bovary or Salammbô nothing of Flaubert, except his temperament, his taste, and his ideals as an artist.
— from Madame Bovary: A Tale of Provincial Life, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Gustave Flaubert

Other legends of such accidental discoveries of unknown graves haunted the olden time, and may have been suggested by the story of Isis.
— from The Builders: A Story and Study of Masonry by Joseph Fort Newton

And, finding his still comparatively moderate expectations thus every day fully realized, he was satisfied with his condition in the present, and hopeful and happy in the prospects it presented in the future; for the demon of unlawful gain had not then tempted him into forbidden paths by the lure of sudden riches.
— from Gaut Gurley; Or, the Trappers of Umbagog: A Tale of Border Life by Daniel P. (Daniel Pierce) Thompson

But it pleased the Lord to loose his tongue, and restore his voice to such a distinct clearness, that none could easily exceed him; and not only his voice, but his spirit was so enlarged, and such a door of utterance given him, that Mr. Blackater, succeeding him, said to the people, "Ye, that have such preaching, have no need to invite strangers to preach to you; make good use of your mercy."
— from Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies by John Howie

Verily, this they can do only under glowing hatred towards their oppressors, and towards that order of things which place them in such a position, which degrades them to machines.
— from The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892 by Friedrich Engels

Lyell's doctrine of uniform geological history made an early and deep impression upon his mind, and it led him to ask himself whether the efficient causes of past evolution might not be revealed by an analysis of the present workings of nature.
— from The Doctrine of Evolution: Its Basis and Its Scope by Henry Edward Crampton