Two were found making their nest once in the end of a big iron pipe up by the Harlem Bridge, and an old boiler at the East River served as an elegant flat for another couple, who kept house there with a thief the police had long sought, little suspecting that he was hiding under their very noses for months together.
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

Enemy realization of an impending defeat may be preceded by disparagement of the importance of the area in which the defeat is to take place, or by description to the home audience of the enormous strength which enemy forces face at that particular place.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

And e'en for flush and proof of our America—for reminder, just as much, or more, in moods of towering pride and joy, I keep my special chants of death and immortality{33} to stamp the coloring-finish of all, present and past.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

The travels and researches by expeditions from Finland and Russia have made these questions pretty clear.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

At different times he would give fifty humorous and apposite reasons for riding a meek-spirited jade of a broken-winded horse, preferably to one of mettle;—for on such a one he could sit mechanically, and meditate as delightfully de vanitate mundi et fugâ fæculi, as with the advantage of a death’s-head before him;—that, in all other exercitations, he could 32 spend his time, as he rode slowly along,—to as much account as in his study;—that he could draw up an argument in his sermon,—or a hole in his breeches, as steadily on the one as in the other;—that brisk trotting and slow argumentation, like wit and judgment, were two incompatible movements.—But that upon his steed—he could unite and reconcile every thing,—he could compose his sermon—he could compose his cough,——and, in case nature gave a call that way, he could likewise compose himself to sleep.—In short, the parson upon such encounters would assign any cause but the true cause,—and he with-held the true one, only out of a nicety of temper, because he thought it did honour to him.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

Presents were presents, and one did not look them in this manner in the mouth, he felt; and if Lady Caroline found her pleasure in presenting his wife and Mrs. Fisher with their entire food for a week, it was their part to accept gracefully.
— from The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim

We throw open our city to the world, and never by alien acts exclude foreigners from any opportunity of learning or observing, although the eyes of an enemy may occasionally profit by our liberality; trusting less in system and policy than to the native spirit of our citizens; while in education, where our rivals from their very cradles by a painful discipline seek after manliness, at Athens we live exactly as we please, and yet are just as ready to encounter every legitimate danger.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

Here are some of the public and some of the private growth; some of the builders’ fortifications, loans, gifts, and gratuities, escheats, forfeitures, fines, and recoveries, penal statutes, crown lands, and demesne, privy purse, post-offices, offerings, lordships of manors, and a world of other growths, for which we want names.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Mr. Cave's statements, Mr. Wace assures me, were extremely circumstantial, and entirely free from any of that emotional quality that taints hallucinatory impressions.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

The place which he occupied was voluntarily assigned to him; it was given in consequence of his true heart, his profound judgment, his undeviating attachment to principle, his entire freedom from art and management.
— from Biography of Rev. Hosea Ballou by Maturin Murray Ballou

This compliment, either clumsy or malicious, won him no favor; the old lady’s eyes flashed fire at his impertinence.
— from Julia France and Her Times: A Novel by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

Many of the women hurried back to their homes, to prepare, in case of emergency, for flight and safety in the bush.
— from The Storehouses of the King; Or, the Pyramids of Egypt What They Are and Who Built Them by Jane (Trill) van Gelder

All the while people have been questioning and asking: “Where is the king of Etna, Falco Falcone? Where is the mighty Falco who has held sway on the slopes of Etna for five and twenty years?
— from The Miracles of Antichrist: A Novel by Selma Lagerlöf

Embracing the huge cylinder, as closely as possible, with his arms and knees, seizing with his hands some projections, and resting his naked toes upon others, Jupiter, after one or two narrow escapes from falling, at length wriggled himself into the first great fork, and seemed to consider the whole business as virtually accomplished.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

Lean over the pulpit, he would, his eyes flamin' fire an' his tongue shrivellin' folks in their pews, I can tell you!"
— from The Thing from the Lake by Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marie) Ingram

[130] It shows that this idea must have been strongly inculcated in the aboriginal society, if the expression for firmness and marriage were associated in their language.
— from The Family among the Australian Aborigines, a Sociological Study by Bronislaw Malinowski

Wealth would thus flow into the island, and its inhabitants, with their exquisite feeling for all that was beautiful, would employ their wealth in cultivating the fine arts, and in covering their barren rocks with grand and graceful edifices; and this was shown by the ancient inhabitants of Ægina having had the honour of introducing a style in sculpture superior to all that preceded, though inferior to the ultimate perfection of the Athenian school.
— from Ruins of Ancient Cities (Vol. 1 of 2) With General and Particular Accounts of Their Rise, Fall, and Present Condition by Charles Bucke

If the capacity was increased or diminished, the electromotive force fell as expected.
— from The inventions, researches and writings of Nikola Tesla With special reference to his work in polyphase currents and high potential lighting by Thomas Commerford Martin