The Americans seem to have excellent tab on the German movements, and when, at 5 o'clock, the Germans came over, they met a terrific machine gun fire, while a heavy barrage which was put right behind the attacking party and gradually lowered on it not only cut off reinforcement for it but killed many in it.
— from New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol. 8, Pt. 2, No. 1, July 1918 by Various

In no other class of rugs are so many and such painstaking devices to avert the spell of the evil eye.
— from Oriental Rugs, Antique and Modern by W. A. (Walter Augustus) Hawley

For it has the perfection of a cipher, which is to make anything signifying anything; subject however to this condition, that the infolding writing shall contain at least five times as many letters as the writing infolded; no other condition or restriction is required.
— from The Mystery of the Sea by Bram Stoker

With the increasing number of lines comes an increasing number of combinations of rhymes.
— from Practical Guide to English Versification With a Compendious Dictionary of Rhymes, an Examination of Classical Measures, and Comments Upon Burlesque and Comic Verse, Vers de Société, and Song-writing by Tom Hood

In the wide domain even of our free states, there is not one city of refuge for the poor runaway fugitive; not one spot upon which he can stand and say, I am a free man—I am protected in my rights as a man , by the strong arm of the law; no!
— from An Appeal to the Christian Women of the South by Angelina Emily Grimké

Before the conversion we have not a single written document upon which to base our history; from the moment of Augustine's landing we have the invaluable works of Bæda, and a host of lesser writings (chiefly lives of saints), besides an immense number of charters or royal grants of land to monasteries and private persons.
— from Anglo-Saxon Britain by Grant Allen

No hypothesis of interchange of ideas nor of community of race is needed to explain the resemblance of form in the missiles.
— from Custom and Myth by Andrew Lang

For if there, where there is nothing of covenant, of restraint, or of equivalent between the church and the state, the propositions of the Syllabus are still to have the countenance of the episcopate, it becomes really a little difficult to maintain in argument the civil rights of such persons to toleration, however conclusive be the argument of policy in favour of granting it.
— from The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 2 (of 3) 1859-1880 by John Morley

We had set out full of hope, if not of confidence, of reaching the Snow Mountains, and the disappointment of not having set foot on them was aggravated by the fact that we had been so long in sight of them.
— from Pygmies & Papuans: The Stone Age To-day in Dutch New Guinea by A. F. R. (Alexander Frederick Richmond) Wollaston