There was only one chance; that he could get up enough speed to throw the Good News into a nose dive.
— from The Sky Trail by Graham M. Dean

Now, at home, I have to go to school, and I get up early so that I shan’t be hurried, but my breakfast is always late; so I have too much time before breakfast, and nothing to do, and too little time after breakfast when I’ve a lot to do.”
— from Paris Nights, and Other Impressions of Places and People by Arnold Bennett

He was tempted to give up entirely, stop trying to do anything.
— from The Children's Six Minutes by Bruce S. (Bruce Simpson) Wright

A heavy porch shelters the entrance, and above this is a sculptured Norman arch of great antiquity, a Scripture subject being graven upon each stone, that upon the key-block representing the Last Supper.
— from A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors by Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen) Wolfe

“The kingdom of God upon earth,” said the minister—“It ought not to be incredible; but that, more than anything else you told us of, gave me pause.”
— from A Traveler from Altruria: Romance by William Dean Howells

Give us either schools to which we can send our children, or divide the schools equitably between Catholics and Protestants, and we will solicit no special grants of the sort.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 10, October, 1869 to March, 1870 by Various

Leonora had given up even showing the accounts of the Ashburnham estate to Edward.
— from The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford

Then I swung the arms up and back to the sides of the body, but just before the hands touched the ground Uncle Ed seized the body in both hands just below the ribs, and as soon as I touched the arms to the ground he swung forward with all his weight on his hands, squeezing the waist and pushing upward so as to force out the air in the chest.
— from The Scientific American Boy; Or, The Camp at Willow Clump Island by A. Russell (Alexander Russell) Bond