Some steers had just escaped from the yards, and the strikers had got hold of them, and there would be the chance of a scrap!
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

The Jesuits Expelled from the Philippines.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

But what words can express her sense of humiliation when, at the close of this long conflict, the government which she had served so faithfully still held her unworthy a voice in its councils, while it recognized as the political superiors of all the noble women of the nation, the negro men just emerged from slavery 239 and not only totally illiterate but also densely ignorant of every public question?
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

This did not save me from more jokes, either; for a husky-voiced gentleman with a rough face, who had been eating out of a sandwich-box nearly all the way, except when he had been drinking out of a bottle, said I was like a boa-constrictor who took enough at one meal to last him a long time; after which, he actually brought a rash out upon himself with boiled beef.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Moreover, powerful Truth, being the rich grape juice expressed from the vineyard of the ages, has an intoxicating quality, when imbibed by any save a powerful intellect, and often, as it were, impels the quaffer to quarrel in his cups.
— from Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Consider, for a moment, how miraculous it all was to a boy of seventeen, just escaped from a narrow valley: I willed and lo!
— from Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a bloody deed.
— from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Illustrated by Arthur Conan Doyle

But to his own flock, he gave only just enough food to keep them alive.
— from The Aesop for Children With pictures by Milo Winter by Aesop

A small island, fairly laughing with flowers in full bloom, and affording little more space than just enough for a picturesque little building, seemingly a fowl-house—arose from the lake not far from its northern shore—to which it was connected by means of an inconceivably light-looking and yet very primitive bridge.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

When Herod had despatched these affairs, and he understood that Marcus Agrippa had sailed again out of Italy into Asia, he made haste to him, and besought him to come to him into his kingdom, and to partake of what he might justly expect from one that had been his guest, and was his friend.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

The "Mayflow'r"'s anchor'd in the wintry bay; And now the crowded boat with busy oar Glides onward to the solitary shore, Where, just emerging from the wave, there lay A Rock, which trusting feet would not betray.
— from A Book of Christian Sonnets by William Allen

Popham, Chief Justice, examines Fawkes, 17 ; sends to Salisbury a rumour of Percy’s movements, 23 ; makes inquiries into the movements of Catholics, 24 ; a commissioner to examine the plot, 25 Priests, the banishment of, proclamation for, 160 Privy Councillors, form of publishing the signatures of,
— from What Gunpowder Plot Was by Samuel Rawson Gardiner

The northern province of Galilee, which saw most of the ministry of Jesus, extended from the Mediterranean to the Sea of Galilee, and a much greater distance from the north to the south.
— from A Trip Abroad An Account of a Journey to the Earthly Canaan and the Land of the Ancient Pharaohs; To Which Are Appended a Brief Consideration of the Geography and History of Palestine, and a Chapter on Churches of Christ in Great Britain by Don Carlos Janes

Why couldn’t we raise some tents as long as the weather is good and camp out there at night?” said Jane exultantly, for she thought she had anticipated the Guide’s plan.
— from The Woodcraft Girls in the City by Lillian Elizabeth Roy

It was nearly luncheon-time when he returned from it and came upon Anna just emerging from the house.
— from The Reef by Edith Wharton

Jewish exiles from, take refuge in Poland, 4 , 263 , 420 .
— from History of the Jews, Vol. 6 (of 6) Containing a Memoir of the Author by Dr. Philip Bloch, a Chronological Table of Jewish History, an Index to the Whole Work by Heinrich Graetz

Now, seeing that such pastimes are in number almost infinite, and infinite the varieties of human character, pray what is there at all surprising in your being madly fond of shooting—and your brother Tom just as foolish about fishing—and cousin Jack perfectly insane on fox-hunting—while the old gentleman your father, in spite of wind and weather, perennial gout, and annual apoplexy, goes a-coursing of the white-hipped hare on the bleak Yorkshire wolds—and uncle Ben, as if just escaped from Bedlam or St Luke's with Dr Haslam at his heels, or with a few hundred yards' start of Dr Warburton, is seen galloping, in a Welsh wig and strange apparel, in the rear of a pack of Lilliputian beagles, all barking as if they were as mad as their master, supposed to be in chase of an invisible animal that keeps eternally doubling in field and forest—"still hoped for, never seen," and well christened by the name of Escape? Phrenology sets the question for ever at rest.
— from Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 1 by John Wilson

Page 54 Jealousy, especially from the female side, is an ever-present source of trouble and unhappiness among the Natives.
— from The Black Man's Place in South Africa by Nielsen, Peter, active 1922-1937