He was much in debt, even at this early period and with his princely fortune.
— from The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-66) by John Lothrop Motley

and I will not allow anything of the sort done in my room, but I know that it is done elsewhere, and that every spark of religious interest is killed by the process.
— from The Story of Wellesley by Florence Converse

He always supposeth that the soul—at the deceasing of the body—goeth only out at the mouth, and he understandeth nothing concerning its deep essences above the elements.
— from The Ghost World by T. F. (Thomas Firminger) Thiselton-Dyer

I felt it distinctly enough, and that enabled me to discover the place.
— from Osceola the Seminole; or, The Red Fawn of the Flower Land by Mayne Reid

Some, also, have imperfectly developed eyes at the ends of the arms or rays.
— from The Sea Shore by William S. Furneaux

"There is death enough at the end.
— from Revenge! by Robert Barr

British officers, and, indeed, all their countrymen, may well feel astonished and disgusted at the extraordinary reasoning of Gordon, who, though merely the hired mercenary of a local Mandarin (Le Futai), and being totally without status in the Imperialist service, [72] made his duty to the Manchoo, forsooth, a reason for condoning the atrocities in which they had already involved him, and justifying his future participation in deeds equally abhorrent to every civilized and Christian sentiment.
— from Ti-Ping Tien-Kwoh: The History of the Ti-Ping Revolution (Volume II) by Augustus F. Lindley

"Oh, well, you're here now, and it's all right," put in dad easily, as though everything was quite commonplace and had happened dozens of times to us.
— from The Range Dwellers by B. M. Bower