By combining a popular hatred of the class of entrepreneurs with the blow already given to social security by the violent and arbitrary disturbance of contract and of the established equilibrium of wealth which is the inevitable result of inflation, these Governments are fast rendering impossible a continuance of the social and economic order of the nineteenth century.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes

52 If a man feels that this artful speaker is treating him like a silly boy and trying to throw dust in his eyes, he at once grows irritated, and thinking that such false reasoning implies a contempt of his understanding, he perhaps flies into a rage and will not hear another 41 word; or even if he masters his resentment, still he is utterly indisposed to yield to the persuasive power of eloquence.
— from On the Sublime by active 1st century Longinus

During the flight, the king, mortally wounded, died; and just as the queen was about to be taken captive, a fairy rising in a cloud of mist carried away the infant Lancelot from where his parents had placed him under a tree.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

Suddenly she heard a faint rustle in a clump of fir-trees, and she saw a wild, distorted face staring from it.
— from Invisible Links by Selma Lagerlöf

The eggs are more or less globular, the egg-shell frequently remains intact and carries one or two filaments; the embryonal shell (embryophore) is thick, radially striated, is transparent and oval; it is 30 µ to 40 µ in length, and 20 µ to 30 µ in breadth.
— from The Animal Parasites of Man by Fred. V. (Frederick Vincent) Theobald

Can a child learn any thing but national prepossession, from reading in a character of the English nation, that "boys, before they can speak, discover that they know the proper guards in boxing with their fists; a quality that, perhaps, is peculiar to the English, and is seconded by a strength of arm that few other people can exert?
— from Practical Education, Volume I by Richard Lovell Edgeworth

The United States, he claimed, had more than a philanthropic interest in this matter, for the enforced emigration of the Jews from Rumania in a condition of utter destitution was "the mere transplantation of an artificially produced diseased growth to a new place"; and, as the United States was practically their only place of refuge, we had a clearly established right of remonstrance.
— from From Isolation to Leadership, Revised A Review of American Foreign Policy by John Holladay Latané

She was fantastically robed in a cloak of crimson velvet, lined with costly furs and closely studded with double-headed eagles in fine gold, which must have been worth a prince's ransom; and she wore red shoes on each of which there was the same eagle design in gold.
— from The Historical Nights' Entertainment: First Series by Rafael Sabatini

“Except the Earl of Warwick!” repeated the count, musingly, as the fumes of the odours with which the bath was filled rose in a cloud over his long hair,—“ill would fare that subject, in most lands, who was as wealthy as his king!
— from The Last of the Barons — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

There remains this light thrust at London architecture— “Shall we find refuge in a committee of taste, escape from the mediocrity of one to the mediocrity of many?...
— from Disraeli: A Study in Personality and Ideas by Walter Sichel

The successful transformation of the anarchy of the great French Revolution into a career of conquest is a typical example.
— from The Map of Life Conduct and Character by William Edward Hartpole Lecky

One scantily furnished room, in a corner of which a man lay on a bed, was disclosed.
— from A Blundering Boy: A Humorous Story by Bruce Weston Munro

Besides, by what right do you question my method of getting rid of a sneak thief?" "Oh, I don't stop for rights in a case of this kind," says I.
— from Side-stepping with Shorty by Sewell Ford