His sword hand no longer instantly responded to every command of his agile brain, and even his brain itself became less agile.
— from The Radio Planet by Ralph Milne Farley

Among the Eastern Christians Origen has already been referred to.
— from The Mediaeval Mind (Volume 1 of 2) A History of the Development of Thought and Emotion in the Middle Ages by Henry Osborn Taylor

The concentration of the French corps d'armée began to be effected near Saafeldt, when General Benningsen changed all of a sudden his plan of campaign: passing from the offensive to the defensive, he decided to repass the Alle, in order to protect the entrenched camp of Heilsberg, and by the same movement the town of Königsberg, the last refuge of the resources of Prussia.
— from World's Best Histories — Volume 7: France by François Guizot

When the rush followed, separating her and Beverley, it was a great relief to her in some way; for a sudden recognition of the boldness of her action in the little scene just ended, came over her and bewildered her.
— from Alice of Old Vincennes by Maurice Thompson

A good-natured German who served as seaman on board this English packet-boat, promised me to take every care of her and bring her all she might require.
— from Louis Spohr's Autobiography Translated from the German by Louis Spohr

While formerly the air in the space next the zinc wall was either cooled or heated alternately by opening the water-valve or by passing a current through the heating coil, at present it is found much more advantageous to allow a slow flow of air and water through the pipes continuously, thus having the air-space normally somewhat
— from Respiration Calorimeters for Studying the Respiratory Exchange and Energy Transformations of Man by Thorne M. (Thorne Martin) Carpenter

Then a torrent of emotion came over him, and, bending on one knee, with the child in his arms, the tears coursed down his cheeks.
— from She's All the World to Me by Caine, Hall, Sir

She has brought her Boy of six, who seems to us wonderfully clever as compared to English Children of his Age, but who, she tells us, is counted rather behind his Fellows in Italy.
— from Letters of Edward FitzGerald to Fanny Kemble (1871-1883) by Edward FitzGerald

Up, and on, through the elastic carpet of heather and bilberry, and across bogs which showed like veins of vivid green on the dark surface of the moor; under circling peewits, who fled before them, crying with plaintive shrillness to each other, as though in protest; and past grouse-nests, whence the startled mothers soared precipitately with angry duckings, each leaving behind her a loose gathering of eggs lying wide and open on the heather, those newly laid gleaming a brighter red beside their fellows.
— from The History of David Grieve by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.