If the uttermost truth could be told about a man's emotion in such scenes, as it can be regarding a woman's, it would have to be confessed that Lewis Gordon came very near to crying also over this foolish unconditional surrender on Rose Tweedie's part.
— from The Potter's Thumb by Flora Annie Webster Steel

In this paper, published December, 1861, entitled “Self-Possession vs. Prepossession,” he finds unmistakable symptoms of reaction in England, since 1848, against liberalism in politics, and tries the criticism of the United States government in which the press indulged by the action of England toward Ireland and India; and finally he points out the restrictions imposed on any constitutional government by the very conditions of its existence, forbidding it to act in advance of the convictions of its people.
— from James Russell Lowell, A Biography; vol 2/2 by Horace Elisha Scudder

For if any of them in the course of the last two years has never fallen under suspicion of rapacity, as I am told about Cæsius and Chærippus and Labeo—and think it true, because I know them—there is no authority, I think, which may not be intrusted to them, and no confidence which may not be placed in them with the utmost propriety, and in anyone else like them.
— from The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Is human life worth enough to pay for having these structures inspected, and, if found unsafe, strengthened or removed?
— from Bridge Disasters in America: The Cause and the Remedy by George L. (George Leonard) Vose

It was made of tin, and had apparently been covered with brown paper, for the remains of this clung loose at either end from under splotches of red sealing-wax.
— from The Sealed Message by Fergus Hume

He has not time to think whether he will fall upon snow or rocks, whether he will have merely a pleasant slide or be dashed into a thousand fragments; he does not make up his mind to be heroic or to be frightened; the one thought that flashes across his mind is that here at last is the situation which he has so often feebly pictured to himself; he will know all about it before he has time to reflect upon its pains or pleasures.
— from Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) by E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn) Linton

Happily for us, Society only requires the shadow.
— from Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida by Ouida

of beef cut from under side of round and chopped to a mince.
— from The Century Cook Book by Mary Ronald

The incidents and characterisations are founded upon stories of real life.
— from Traffic in Souls: A Novel of Crime and Its Cure by Eustace Hale Ball

Pieces of clay, put rudely together and baked, are the common utensils for cooking their food; and a few upright sticks or reeds, driven into the mud floor, with a hide stretched over them, constitute their most luxurious bed.
— from Rambles by Land and Water; or, Notes of Travel in Cuba and Mexico by Benjamin Moore Norman