But I kept this to myself, and comforted the expecting child with the oft-repeated assertion that it would certainly snow upon the morrow.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

Then, you must also consider the exact circumstances—I standing there, with destruction hanging over me, with the sense that within a few hours I should be a pariah to her, a masquerader stripped of his disguise and cast out from the ball where he had been making so merry
— from The Deluge by David Graham Phillips

We should probably be surprised if we heard it said that Shakespeare had made a contribution to English "culture": but, on consideration, we should admit that he had, though we should not have chosen that way of speaking about him.
— from The War and Democracy by John Dover Wilson

In later times it was proved that substances like sugar, starch, urea, indigo, and a great many more, all contain the element carbon.
— from Acids, Alkalis and Salts by George Henry Joseph Adlam

In this extremity of misery and confusion, the eastern Church addressed Pope Symmachus in 512.
— from The Holy See and the Wandering of the Nations, from St. Leo I to St. Gregory I by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies

I cannot help imagining that this seeming death must be much less frequent in England than in some other countries; (is that owing to the more vigorous practice for which English medical men are celebrated, they either cure or kill?)
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 by Various

So then, now, I also will rival and surpass him, and by means of the intensity of my extraordinary penance bend the very gods to my will, and compel them to obey me, and change the established constitution of the world, whether they will or no. Aye, my resolution is fixed, and adamantine, and inalterable.
— from The Ashes of a God by F. W. (Francis William) Bain

"By leaving the S.L. & W. survey at Horse Creek, following up to the low divide at Emory's Mine, and crossing to enter Copah from the southeast instead of from the northeast.
— from Empire Builders by Francis Lynde

We can manipulate and control the electric current; but we do not know yet precisely what it is .
— from The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal by Hereward Carrington

I have in my possession some spear heads measuring from seven to nine inches long, which were dug up on an old Indian trail at Point Oken, lying to the north of Lake St. John, Quebec; and implements of the like material are common throughout eastern Canada.
— from The Lost Atlantis and Other Ethnographic Studies by Wilson, Daniel, Sir