It is a necessary condition of my acting rightly that I should not do what I judge to be wrong: but if my judgment is mistaken, my action in accordance with it will not be “objectively” right.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

The magpies flew joyfully in myriads, making a way for the tiny feet of the little lady.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

I turned to cut him down: he cried out in alarm; the well-known voice caused an instant's hesitation: at that moment a spearman stepped forward, left his javelin in my mouth, and retired before he could be punished.
— from First Footsteps in East Africa by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

For once in my life I got enough jam in my mouth, and as I scrambled to my feet I beheld a young lady standing before me screaming with laughter.
— from Pretty Madcap Dorothy; Or, How She Won a Lover by Laura Jean Libbey

The jungle is much maligned and often misinterpreted.
— from Prowling about Panama by George A. (George Amos) Miller

Organization of the New Empire While thus the new united empire was furnished with a national character, which doubtless necessarily lacked individuality and was rather an inanimate product of art than a fresh growth of nature, it further had need of unity in those institutions which express the general life of nations—in constitution and administration, in religion and jurisprudence, in money, measures, and weights; as to which, of course, local diversities of the most varied character were quite compatible with essential union.
— from The History of Rome, Book V The Establishment of the Military Monarchy by Theodor Mommsen

As they joined it, Mr. Morton approached from the other direction.
— from Sam by E. J. Rath

Un jour ils me menèrent avec eux
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III by Richard Hakluyt

James II. made Massey, an ex-Presbyterian convert to the Roman Church, Dean of Christ Church, and the Holy Communion was celebrated according to the Roman use every day in the House.
— from The Cathedral Church of Oxford A description of its fabric and a brief history of the Episcopal see by Percy Dearmer

Mary straightened up in her chair and looked at him with a perplexed expression, saying in a slow, puzzled way, "Jack, it makes me almost cross-eyed trying to see your way and my way at the same time.
— from Mary Ware's Promised Land by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

I had never seen the lad since the day it was determined to make an Oxford man of him, instead of following out his father's wishes and fetching him home to our own University, and the surprise I felt at sight of him, a grown man and a monstrous fine one, gave me something of a jolt in my mind at the rapid passing of the years.
— from Nancy Stair: A Novel by Elinor Macartney Lane