During the transition period these must act on the principle that every emigrant Jew is to be judged according to the laws of the country which he has left.
— from The Jewish State by Theodor Herzl

Scarcely had this fluid closed around the intruder, before it scrambled out, and reached the external ear just in time to die.
— from The Young Marooners on the Florida Coast by F. R. (Francis Robert) Goulding

Surely a typical example of the perplexity of our etymologists, who disagree in everything except just in the one thing which seems to me extremely doubtful, that hope with the present spiritual signification goes back to common Aryan.
— from Language: Its Nature, Development and Origin by Otto Jespersen

The faults of Maitland, developed by age, fortune, and success—we recall the triumph of his ‘Femme en violet et en jeune’ in the Salon of 1884—found Florent as blind as at the epoch when they played cricket together in the fields at Beaumont.
— from Cosmopolis — Complete by Paul Bourget

Philo in effect expounds Judaism in their spirit, though he speaks their message in the voice of Plato and to a people whose minds were trained in Greek culture.
— from Philo-Judæus of Alexandria by Norman Bentwich

The Congress of Vienna, in which the allied powers formulated their policy, did its best to turn back the shadow twenty years on the dial of progress, and England either joined in the effort or stood by consenting to the death of so many newly won liberties.
— from Ten Englishmen of the Nineteenth Century by James Richard Joy

Then I made an expiring effort just in time.
— from Lawn Tennis for Ladies by Mrs. Lambert Chambers

And as you wish me every earthly joy, I trust your wishes may have quick fulfillment!
— from The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan by Arthur Sullivan

At the canteen the men are pouring out coffee from enormous enamelled jugs into the small jugs that the waitresses bring.
— from A Journal of Impressions in Belgium by May Sinclair