Not with all he had that day seen and gone through, had Gibbie until now gathered any notion of the force of rushing water.
— from Sir Gibbie by George MacDonald

Bahá’í observers accredited by United Nations participated in Conference on Human Rights, Geneva; United Nations General Assembly, Paris.
— from Citadel of Faith by Effendi Shoghi

"You may get up now," Greg admonished his captive, as he leaped to his feet.
— from Uncle Sam's Boys with Pershing's Troops Or, Dick Prescott at Grips with the Boche by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

A timid tapping at it, which had gone unobserved, now grew audible.
— from Jinny the Carrier by Israel Zangwill

The Stoic hopes for no results, and gives up natural good altogether.
— from The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James

Even this date gives us no glacial age for early man in California, but here again we have skulls that are older and more archaic in type than those of the Mongoloid Indian.
— from Early Man in the New World by Joseph A. Hester

It is equally true, however, that on such grounds alone it is no less impossible to defend interest than to attack it; and here we arrive at what is the real truth of the matter—namely, that in cases like the present the principles of ideal justice do not, indeed, give us false guidance, but give us no guidance at all, unless we take them in connection with the concrete facts of society, and estimate social arrangements as being either right or wrong by reference to the practical consequences which do, or which would result from them.
— from A Critical Examination of Socialism by W. H. (William Hurrell) Mallock