This Fox did within a year of his resignation, but his independence soon brought about another rupture: and when, on a question of procedure, he caused the defeat of the ministry by pressing an amendment to a division, the King wrote to Lord North: "Indeed, that young man has so thoroughly cast off every principle of common honour and honesty that he must become as contemptible as he is odious;
— from Farmer George, Volume 2 by Lewis Melville

" Smithers firmly believed they had been created for the express purpose of causing him annoyance; and their present especial object in settling in that district was to frustrate his marriage, and rob him of his bride elect.
— from Fern Vale; or, the Queensland Squatter. Volume 3 by Colin Munro

The Americans certainly approach the Mongols and Malays in some respects, but not in the essential parts of cranium, hair, and profile.
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 5, Primitive History The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 5 by Hubert Howe Bancroft

The fact is that, just as among the Eutheria, or higher mammals, special types have become established, possessed of certain habits, and especially of certain habits with regard to food, and modified in accordance with those habits.
— from Stories of the Universe: Animal Life by B. Lindsay

By mixing cold solutions, a voluminous blue precipitate is formed, containing an equivalent proportion of cupric hydroxide and carbonate (after standing or heating, its composition is the same as malachite, sp. gr.
— from The Principles of Chemistry, Volume II by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev

He had taken upon himself the whole responsibility of the preliminary treaty of Leoben, although the French government had sent General Clarke into Italy for the express purpose of controlling him, and acting as his equal at least in the negotiation.
— from The History of Napoleon Buonaparte by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart

In two seconds that saw had us tied up in a complicated knot, with one handle gouging us just under the left ear, and the other playfully wandering about our frame, while the teeth nipped off exposed pieces of cuticle here and there in an arbitrary and capricious manner.
— from Imperfectly Proper by Peter Donovan

563 Thera’s earliest inhabitants were of the Phoenician race; 564 either Phoenicians or Carians had, according to Thucydides, 565 colonised in remote times “the greater part of the islands of the Ænean.”
— from History of Phoenicia by George Rawlinson

It is difficult for a stranger to judge to what extent possessors of capital have actually been deterred from investing it in land, especially as several important factors have led concurrently to a depreciation in its value, such as the fall in the prices of wheat and wool, the failure of banks which were interested, directly or indirectly, in large tracts of country, and bad legislation, passed some ten years ago, under which the runs were cut up into blocks too small for the successful prosecution of the pastoral industry.
— from Australasian Democracy by Henry de Rosenbach Walker