We rarely meet such cases, but when we do, they occur after we have compounded concepts and have united rather carelessly some symbol with an object or an event which ought not to have been united, simply because we were mistaken about its importance.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

Collecting himself, and assuming as much of his accustomed manner as his utmost resolution could summon, Ralph descended the stairs.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Having utterly ruined Columbia, the right wing began its march northward, toward Winnsboro', on the 20th, which we reached on the 21st, and found General Slocum, with the left wing, who had come by the way of Alston.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

This sitting was the last which the Assembly held under regular conditions.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

He had, at her urgent request, consented to pin a rosette on his left shoulder and to become one of our stewards.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Also stones in great quantities at once, and in appearance something like hail, fell from heaven upon Rome continually.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

cold, cold-blooded, cold-hearted; black-hearted, hard-hearted, flint- hearted, marble-hearted, stony-hearted; hard of heart, unnatural; ruthless &c. (unmerciful) 914a; relentless &c. (revengeful) 919.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

He returned with such a large force that Sheridan was about withdrawing without making any effort to hold it against such odds; but about the time he commenced the evacuation he received orders to hold the place at all hazards, until reinforcements could be sent to him.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

“Which makes it the more probable that she may be tired of his idea,” calmly pursued the client, “and not indisposed to exchange it for the newer one of another lover, who presents himself (or is presented by his horse) under romantic circumstances; has the not unfavorable reputation—with a country girl—of having lived thoughtlessly and gaily, without doing much harm to anybody; and who, for his youth and figure, and so forth—this may seem foppish again, but upon my soul I don’t mean it in that light—might [70] perhaps pass muster in a crowd with Mr. Alfred himself.”
— from The Battle of Life: A Love Story by Charles Dickens

By that means the villainous savage thought to have his unsuspecting rival cruelly assassinated and his body secretly disposed of without arousing any suspicion of the dark deed among the Cowetas.
— from Revolutionary Reader: Reminiscences and Indian Legends by Sophie Lee Foster

"He's taken the very one I was going to have Uncle Rufus cut for our Saturday's dinner."
— from The Corner House Girls at School by Grace Brooks Hill

“That must have been a huge undertaking,” remarked Cobb.
— from A. D. 2000 by Alvarado M. (Alvarado Mortimer) Fuller

“That is but natural in her, uncle,” replied Corbet, “if you knew everything; but for the present you can't; nobody knows who he is, and that is a secret that must be kept.”
— from The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by William Carleton

It was not long before we found out how useful Ramonou could make himself.
— from Blanco y Colorado: Old Days among the Gauchos of Uruguay by William C. Tetley

As for Sidney Prale, now that he had but the one thug against him, he fought with skill and cunning, knowing that the other was a bit the stronger, but realizing that he would be victor if he used reasonable care.
— from The Brand of Silence A Detective Story by Harrington Strong

They were made more than twenty-five years before the "Director" was published, but are made of mahogany with richly carved knees, ball-and-claw feet, with carved and ornamentally pierced splats, handsome upper rail curved and ending in the little ears before mentioned.
— from The Old Furniture Book, with a Sketch of Past Days and Ways by N. Hudson Moore