But it may be said that in masculine sports and games, other than the great game of debate, there is definite emulation and eclipse.
— from What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

o' the noise of it, when first I was married, for there was no mills in our family,–not the Dodson's,–and if I'd known as the mills had so much to do with the law, it wouldn't have been me as 'ud have been the first Dodson to marry one; but I went into it blindfold, that I did, erigation and everything."
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

About the Jews, for instance, listen to the following:—I have never yet met a German who was favourably inclined to the Jews; and however decided the repudiation of actual anti-Semitism may be on the part of all prudent and political men, this prudence and policy is not perhaps directed against the nature of the sentiment itself, but only against its dangerous excess, and especially against the distasteful and infamous expression of this excess of sentiment;—on this point we must not deceive ourselves.
— from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The season was drawing to its dusty end, and everyone I knew was arranging to go away.
— from The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

Note 86 ( return ) [ Liutprand (p. 484, 485) relates and interprets the oracles of the Greeks and Saracens, in which, after the fashion of prophecy, the past is clear and historical, the future is dark, enigmatical, and erroneous.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

It would only be interesting to see Kitty, to show her how I despise everyone and everything, how nothing matters to me now.” Dolly came in with the letter.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

" Here the good man's voice faltered a little, and he made a stop in his discourse; but in a little while said that he had thought it behoved him to set down in writing such matters concerning Sir Thomas's life as he could then call to remembrance, and that he would lend me the manuscript to read, which I did esteem an exceeding great favor, and one I could not sufficiently thank him for.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 01, April to September, 1865 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Various

At last a free corps commanded by Tibaldi, an Italian conspirator of Imperial days, effected an entrance into the Hotel-de-Ville, followed by a good many of the mob.
— from My Days of Adventure The Fall of France, 1870-71 by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly

But although much of this is doubtless exaggerated and embellished, the Talmud contains many narratives concerning the relations existing between the Patriarch and the Emperor which are certainly historical.
— from History of the Jews, Vol. 2 (of 6) by Heinrich Graetz

Irregularity of the pulse may be caused by disease of the brain, heart, stomach, or liver; by the disordered condition of the nervous system; by lack of muscular nutrition, as in gout, rheumatism, or convulsions; by deficiency of the heart's effective power, when the pulse-wave does not reach the wrist, or when it intermits and then becomes more rapid in consequence of septic changes of the blood, as in diphtheria, erysipelas, and eruptive fevers.
— from The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand by Ray Vaughn Pierce

The work assigned to us later was to unearth and withdraw all mines left in dugout entrances and elsewhere, and pick up all bomb-traps and devilish contrivances of a similar nature.
— from Fighting the Boche Underground by H. D. (Harry Davis) Trounce

The bear was certainly in deadly earnest, and evidently meant to complete the job that had been undertaken with such fury.
— from The Pioneer Boys of the Yellowstone; or, Lost in the Land of Wonders by St. George Rathborne

Unless all the early ova so far described are pathological, it seems to [Pg 270] follow that the mesoblast of the chorion is formed before the embryo is definitely established, and even if the pathological character of these ova is admitted, it is nevertheless probable (leaving Krause’s embryo out of account), as shewn by the early embryos of Allen Thomson and His, that it is formed before the closure of the medullary groove.
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 3 (of 4) A Treatise on Comparative Embryology: Vertebrata by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour