In my opinion, the first form of abstract concepts in general is based upon such abstract pictures.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

When we know that the average Japanese girl is brought up strictly by her own mother, and thoroughly drilled in obedience and in all that is proper as regards etiquette and the duties of woman, we can imagine the narrowness of the education of the daimiō's poor little daughter, surrounded, from early childhood, with numerous attendants of the strictest sort, to [178] teach her all that is proper according to the highest and severest standards.
— from Japanese Girls and Women Revised and Enlarged Edition by Alice Mabel Bacon

This has gone on to such an extent that every ounce of twine has been used up; the only supply we can now get is by unravelling some canvas.
— from Australia Twice Traversed The Romance of Exploration, Being a Narrative Compiled from the Journals of Five Exploring Expeditions into and Through Central South Australia and Western Australia, from 1872 to 1876 by Ernest Giles

It proclaims to us the message of the prophets, opened to us in triumphant tones by the prophet Isaiah in the Lesson of to-day, that righteousness is the very foundation on which God is building up society; [68] that it is the very root from which our own lives and the life of our nation derive their existence; that it was to promote this righteousness that our Lord came into the world at His first Advent in great humility; and that it is to establish that righteousness finally that He will come again in great glory to judge the quick and the dead.
— from The War and the Gospel: Sermons and Addresses During the Present War by Henry Wace

"I wonder what their little game is, bringing up so close to the Tea Caves?"
— from The Scouts of Seal Island by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

10 A. M. we had a general inspection by U. S. Grant and General Quinby of the 3rd Division.
— from An Artilleryman's Diary by Jenkins Lloyd Jones

She looked at him with dreadful eyes and spoke in a low, deadly, monotonous voice: "The fire-escape was no good; it broke under some of the girls;… they fell;… we jammed the hall;… some of the girls jumped down the elevator shaft;… they couldn't get out … and Miss Marks, the forelady, was trying to keep us in order….
— from The Nine-Tenths by James Oppenheim

Germany is becoming uneasy; she has heard the rustling of the wings of defeat.
— from The Schemes of the Kaiser by Juliette Adam

There is no joy in the world so great as the joy of finding ourselves stronger than we know; and that is what God is bent upon showing us, and not upon proving to us that we are vile and base, in the spirit of the old Calvinist who said to his own daughter when she was dying of a painful disease, that she must remember that all short of Hell was mercy.
— from Where No Fear Was: A Book About Fear by Arthur Christopher Benson