This process of accommodation was carried out in after ages by followers who, made of less ethereal stuff than their masters, were for that reason the better fitted to mediate between them and the common herd.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

What we are losing, ever seems to us the most precious: Gonzalvo was quitting Spain for ever, and therefore was Spain dearer to his eyes than all else which the World contained.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

Frequently it introduces an explanation or illustration, and, from Cicero on, a remark or question made in passing: as, sīc enim sēsē rēs habet: nam Odyssīa Latīna est sīc tamquam opus Daedalī , Br. 71, the case stands thus: the Odyssey in Latin is, you may say, a regular work of Daedalus ( 1908 ).
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

There is reason to believe that King Charles's spaniel has been unconsciously modified to a large extent since the time of that monarch.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

You will not be summoned to leave England sooner than you expected?”
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

Hence the harvesters are naturally reluctant to give the last cut at reaping or the last stroke at threshing or to bind the last sheaf, and towards the close of the work this reluctance produces an emulation among the labourers, each striving to finish his task as fast as possible, in order that he may escape the invidious distinction of being last.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

There is a popular error to the effect that Generals Grant and Lee each signed the articles of surrender.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

Layágun ug dunggan si Pidru mu nay nahímung pagyà, Pedro has large ears so that became the way they used to refer to him.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

What an interesting collection could be made of these insects’ skeletons, photographed large enough so that we could see and study them!
— from Book of Monsters Portraits and Biographies of a Few of the Inhabitants of Woodland and Meadow by Marian Fairchild

A little experimenting showed that the alcohol in fermenting juices was lighter than water; so that by gently heating the fermenting mass, the alcohol would evaporate and pass off as vapor, with a little of the steam from the water.
— from A Handbook of Health by Woods Hutchinson

Swarming like ants, The Idea for captain, No banners, no bugles, Only a terrible Ground-bass of gathering Tempest and fury, Only a tossing Of arms and of garments; Sexless and featureless, (Only the children Different among them, Crawling between their feet, Borne on their shoulders;) Rolling their shaggy heads Wild with the unheard-of Drug of the sunshine; 10 Tears that had eaten The half of their eyelids Dry on their cheeks; Blood in their stiffened hair Clouted and darkened; Down in their cavern hearts Hunger the tiger, Leaping, exulting; Sighs that had choked them Burst into triumphing; On they come, Victory!
— from Labor and the Angel by Duncan Campbell Scott

Law everywhere: Simson, tin deed-box manufacturer; Bodgers, deeds copied; Screw, law-writer; Bird, office-furniture warehouse—valuations for probate; S Hardon, legal and general printer; while, like a shade at the end of the street, stood the great hospital, where the wan faces of patients might be seen gazing up at the sky, towards where the clouds scudded before the wind, hurrying to be once more in the country.
— from Mad: A Story of Dust and Ashes by George Manville Fenn

If it "would be unconstitutional to endeavor by his Majesty's name to carry questions in Parliament," it must be at least equally so to use his name to defeat them.
— from The Constitutional History of England from 1760 to 1860 by Charles Duke Yonge

What more likely than that Lucy, at last enlightened, should turn upon her husband, who no doubt had forced this uncongenial companion upon her, should turn from Sir Tom altogether, and put her trust in him no longer!
— from Sir Tom by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

A true ecclesiastical music no longer existed, so that even Winterfeld closed his history of church music with Seb. Bach.
— from Church History, Volume 3 (of 3) by J. H. (Johann Heinrich) Kurtz

The description of the places they visit is enhanced by a pleasant vein of humor, and an attractive love episode sustains the interest.
— from The Pursuit by Frank (Frank Mackenzie) Savile