Meanwhile, as during the observations of two years before, he was sending papers to various scientific journals, American and foreign, about results obtained on Mars, Mercury and Venus; and about this time Sir Robert Hart asked through Professor Headland permission to translate “Mars” into Chinese.
— from Biography of Percival Lowell by A. Lawrence (Abbott Lawrence) Lowell

This one must be a good fighter, they thought; a brawny giant with a bulldog jaw, and a face as red and knobby as his knees.
— from One of Ours by Willa Cather

"Then tell her we are awfully sorry to [271] leave her again to-day, but some of the new machinery has just arrived, and Frank and Ralph have promised to explain it to us.
— from The Ranch Girls' Pot of Gold by Margaret Vandercook

Just in the same way even ministers of State have too much advantage over rising politicians to need to regard them with jealousy; and accordingly for analogous reasons they are glad to single out distinguished men and set them to work, in order to make use of their powers for themselves.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; On Human Nature by Arthur Schopenhauer

The poor fellow had learned to look on Mr. Jameson as a friend, and, realizing that he had abandoned the island, doubtless it was his desire to see him again that had induced this visit.
— from The Banner Boy Scouts Afloat; or, The Secret of Cedar Island by George A. Warren

The other woman was just as anxious for a reconciliation, but their respective husbands could not be brought to terms.
— from Up in Ardmuirland by Michael Barrett

In the first days of January, an Austrian force, after repulsing a weak French detachment, established itself upon Bavarian territory.
— from The Marquis D'Argenson: A Study in Criticism Being the Stanhope Essay: Oxford, 1893 by Arthur Ogle