The lower zones of the mass and the thinner marginal portions still have their motion to a greater or less extent controlled by the irregularity of the rock floor against which they rest.
— from Earth Features and Their Meaning An Introduction to Geology for the Student and the General Reader by William Herbert Hobbs

But while they sorted themselves, I slipped the booth off my shoulders, gave one long, echoing call upon the reed, and, striking an attitude, made ready to address the expectant villagers.
— from The Brother of Daphne by Dornford Yates

Although he had not seen her since their hurried yet sweet reconciliation in the gardens of Lady Everingham, Coningsby was never long without indirect intelligence of the incidents of her life; and the correspondence between Lady Everingham and Henry Sydney, while they were at the moors, had apprised him that Lord Beaumanoir’s suit had terminated unsuccessfully almost immediately after his brother had quitted London.
— from Coningsby; Or, The New Generation by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

By MACK REYNOLDS Illustrated by Freas Almost anything, if it goes on long enough, can be reduced to, first a Routine, and then, to a Tradition.
— from Summit by Mack Reynolds

When it is mixed with urine or some other putrescible substance, the peat undergoes fermentation, with the result that its nitrogen is to a greater or less extent converted into ammonia.
— from Manures and the principles of manuring by Charles Morton Aikman

One might just as well assert one thousand years from now that the people of English descent of the present time living at the Cape of Good Hope were the ones that held sway over India, because they were nearer than England to India, or that the solitary graves or little English cemeteries found between England and India were those of the people who governed India.
— from Ivar the Viking A romantic history based upon authentic facts of the third and fourth centuries by Paul B. (Paul Belloni) Du Chaillu

If any of us wanted to go out like Early Christians, he would be only too happy to set up an arena for us.
— from The Amateurs by Alan Cogan

(Gil. looks angrily at him, and goes off L., Eric comes down; he is a handsome young fellow with an indolent manner.
— from The Squire: An Original Comedy in Three Acts by Arthur Wing Pinero

These depressions encircled the vessel to a greater or lesser extent, causing [41] small bulgings at such places and giving to the vessel a beaded appearance.
— from Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension, with Chapters on Blood Pressure 3rd Edition. by Louis M. (Louis Marshall) Warfield

Thei did were garmentes of linnen, euer cleane wasshed, and white: and shoes of a certeine kinde of russhes, named Papyrus, whiche aftre became stuffe, to geue name to our paper.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc. by Richard Hakluyt