The door opened and the Colonel entered, standing in the full light of the opposite window.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

The libertinism, and even the virtues of superior men, will always give women, of some description, great power over them; and these weak women, under the influence of childish passions and selfish vanity, will throw a false light over the objects which the very men view with their eyes, who ought to enlighten their judgment.
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

Here it seems as if z had been added to the singular; and, contrary to rule, the final letter of the original word been accommodated to the z , instead of the z being accommodated to the final syllable of the word, and so becoming s .
— from The English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham

The forced labor of thousands of war captives enabled the Pharaohs to build public works in every part on their realm.
— from Early European History by Hutton Webster

Sir,—The importance that I attach to the above sweet subject,—the uses of “a jam ” even may be important,—induces me to offer you the option of republishing a few lines on the occasion, which first appeared in a very condensed form last autumn, in the “Examiner” newspaper.
— from The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 2 (of 3) or Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac by William Hone

He had his troubles; for the French, from Quebec on the one side and from Louisbourg on the other, were fomenting strife; and the Indians were on the war-path.
— from The Acadian Exiles : a Chronicle of the Land of Evangeline by Doughty, Arthur G. (Arthur George), Sir

And, in time, every fresh lesson on the Odyssey was accompanied by its illustration,—some bold and simple outline drawing.
— from Yeast: a Problem by Charles Kingsley

All the free life of the open will return.
— from The Round-Up: A Romance of Arizona; Novelized from Edmund Day's Melodrama by Marion Mills Miller

So we say, let blame fall lightly on the one who least [283] deserves it.
— from Lotus Buds by Amy Carmichael