This first glimpse, however, is a significant one, for it shows the early development of that love of the drama which exercised such an influence on his life and seems to have grown stronger as he grew older, and of which this very preface, written only a few months before his death, is such a striking proof.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

But there had been [Pg 129] very little use for it since the earlier days of the school, and not half a dozen of the students had ever seen the inside of it.
— from Stem to Stern; or, building the boat by Oliver Optic

One sees still the traces of the early stiffness; the face is sensitive; the eyes drop, seldom meeting yours squarely; when they do, they are the mild eyes of the Church!
— from The Mirrors of Washington by Clinton W. (Clinton Wallace) Gilbert

"And," continued the judge, "seeing that it is not proved that this sacrilege was connived at by the master, but as he must be held responsible for the acts and deeds of his servant, the said Phileas Fogg is sentenced to eight days' imprisonment and a fine of one hundred and fifty pounds.
— from Round the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

Black Hawk had levied war within the boundaries of one of the States, on lands ceded by treaty, and organized a confederacy of Indian tribes, which, though broken up in part, chiefly through the failure of the other tribes to fulfil their engagements with him, yet required for its suppression the entire disposable force of the Union.
— from The American Indians Their History, Condition and Prospects, from Original Notes and Manuscripts by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

But at last, in its fleetness, It seemed that each day From the charm and the sweetness Took something away,
— from Winona, a Dakota Legend; and Other Poems by E. L. (Eli Lundy) Huggins

But each year, as the white American grows increasingly conscious of race, as he argues on racial differences, the Negro feels his dark face, is sensitive to every disdainful look, and separates himself from the people about him and their problems.
— from Half a Man: The Status of the Negro in New York by Mary White Ovington

So Hettie put the chicken in a cage, with some wool to cover it, and fed it several times every day, till it came to know her.
— from The Nursery, July 1873, Vol. XIV. No. 1 by Various