The worst of it was that, as can well be imagined, we were quite unfit to be seen, and a single glimpse of us must inevitably arouse suspicion.
— from The Escaping Club by A. J. (Alfred John) Evans

The light and glory of upright manhood, if indeed he had ever possessed it, had gone from him now.
— from The Snowshoe Trail by Edison Marshall

"Go on!" urged Moxlow impatiently.
— from The Just and the Unjust by Vaughan Kester

One of a group of unprincipled men, interested in money rather than in settlement of the land, and unable or unwilling to file claims, would approach a new settler and offer him a "deal" on a piece of land, ostensibly planted as a tree claim, with the little green tree shoots already appearing above the ground.
— from North Dakota: A Guide to the Northern Prairie State by Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of North Dakota

[185] It must be admitted at the outset that the nature of the events which occurred on these two dates, a matter probably set forth in the glyphs of unknown meaning in the text, is totally unknown.
— from An Introduction to the Study of the Maya Hieroglyphs by Sylvanus Griswold Morley

With its proclamation of the universal fatherhood of God and brotherhood of man; with the law of love as its law of social interaction; with its "Go ye into all the world and preach my gospel"—a gospel of universal membership in a kingdom of supreme values—in which every member is on a moral equality with his neighbor—the Christian religion has been promotive of a spirit of good will among men, and of harmony among the nations.
— from Religion and the War by Yale University. Divinity School

CHAPTER V THE PERSONAL FACTOR I have already pointed out that the presence of a single all-embracing Cosmic Mind is an absolute necessity for the existence of any creation whatever, for the reason that if each individual mind were an entirely separate center of perception, not linked to all other minds by a common ground of underlying mentality independent of all individual action, then no two persons would see the same thing at the same time, in fact no two individuals would be conscious of living in the same world.
— from The Creative Process in the Individual by T. (Thomas) Troward

How can we guard our unbelief, Make it bear fruit to us?
— from Mornings in the College Chapel Short Addresses to Young Men on Personal Religion by Francis Greenwood Peabody

As, for instance, in the account given of Uath mac Imomain in Fled Bricrenn : see the Book of the Dun Cow , fo.
— from Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx (Volume 2 of 2) by Rhys, John, Sir