There is just a chance of being seen.
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

Or think of this; the hour midnight; place Salle de Manege; august Assembly just adjourning: 'Citizens of both sexes enter in a rush exclaiming, Vengeance: they are poisoning our Brothers;'—baking brayed-glass among their bread at Soissons!
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

The mother was almost painfully meek in her protest against her husband's embarking upon a public career; Mr. Sedgwick has been deterred from joining a church only by some impossible articles of puritan divinity, but cannot die happy until he has received the communion from Dr. Channing; "both my sisters were very religious," says Miss Sedgwick; while the letters I have quoted from two of her brothers, young lawyers and men of the world, have the devoutness of the psalms.
— from Daughters of the Puritans: A Group of Brief Biographies by Seth Curtis Beach

First, there was a vast multitude of intelligent men and women who did not belong to any church organization, and when some of them came to see and believe the new doctrines, they naturally desired to be baptized and to join a church organization; but seeing clearly in the light of the new revelations that, according to the Sacred Scriptures, God is one in essence and in person, and that that one God was manifested to man in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ, and that He made that human form Divine and is henceforth to be worshiped as one God in His Divine Humanity, and that a life according to His sayings and the commandments is essential to salvation, they could not join the prevailing churches, for they could not assent to their creeds.
— from Personal Experience of a Physician by John Ellis

The office occupied a large brick block of houses on New Jersey Avenue, corner of B Street, the house at the northeast end being the residence of the professor.
— from The Life of Isaac Ingalls Stevens, Volume 1 (of 2) by Hazard Stevens

When this was done, the first smack, with Captain Joe and Caleb on board, shook a reef from its mainsail, turned about, and despite the storm laid a straight course back to the Ledge.
— from Caleb West, Master Diver by Francis Hopkinson Smith

When we went to the campus house all along the other side not a girl would accept a ticket----" "Don't you think that was just a case of boycott?" suggested Jane.
— from Jane Allen, Center by Edith Bancroft

Each man was covered by a brown blanket, and within the hood of the stretcher were his special belongings, his boots and his haversack, and, with them, such delicacies for the journey as a pot of jam, a chunk of bread, some biscuits, a lump of tinned meat in a newspaper, and bottles (mostly with paper corks) containing water or milk or tea.
— from The Tale of a Field Hospital by Frederick Treves

In this action, which was fought with great judgment and coolness on both sides, the loss of the Americans was about four hundred men; that of the British was upwards of five hundred.
— from Great Events in the History of North and South America by Charles A. (Charles Augustus) Goodrich

One of them made for himself a complete outfit of boots, pantaloons, jacket and cap of buffalo skin with the hair outside.
— from Ten years in the ranks, U.S. Army by Augustus Meyers