In the wealthy Kashinsky province, which always took the lead of other provinces in everything, there was now such a preponderance of forces that this policy, once carried through properly there, might serve as a model for other provinces for all Russia.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

With consummate skill Tsar Ferdinand kept his plans secret while the Balkan League was forming to overthrow the last of Ottoman power in Europe.
— from The Passing of the Turkish Empire in Europe by B. Granville (Bernard Granville) Baker

The localization of oil pools is evidently determined partly by original organic deposition, often in alignment with old shore lines, and partly by the structural, textural, and other conditions which trap the oil in its migration from the source.
— from The Economic Aspect of Geology by C. K. (Charles Kenneth) Leith

I suppose he must have had some conversations with his lord at Castlewood, whom we have heard expressing some intention of complimenting his chaplain with a good living or other provision, in event of his being able to carry out his lordship's wishes regarding a marriage for Lady Maria.
— from The Virginians by William Makepeace Thackeray

We all know the efficiency of the drum in politics and religion, but it seemed to me a little out of place in economics.
— from Ireland In The New Century by Plunkett, Horace Curzon, Sir

The learning of our poet is encyclopædic; and though there is no display of it, there is large use of it; and it often happens that iv passages or phrases, which seem crabbed or obscure, require only the knowledge of some unfamiliar fact in science or in history, or it may be something not readily thought of, and yet within easy range of a keen enough observation, to light them up and reveal unsuspected strength or beauty.
— from Pomegranates from an English Garden A selection from the poems of Robert Browning by Robert Browning

[her Dramatic Poems] long out of print in England, and never, I think, known in America.
— from Yesterdays with Authors by James Thomas Fields