The brook of Wady Mousa, after leaving the eastern defile by which it entered, passes directly across the valley, and makes its exit by a rocky ravine on the west, almost impassable by the foot of man.
— from Ruins of Ancient Cities (Vol. 2 of 2) With General and Particular Accounts of Their Rise, Fall, and Present Condition by Charles Bucke

I thank you for your kindness, good cousin; but there are many causes which make it as necessary to me as life, that Eugenie de Menancourt should become my wife.
— from One in a Thousand; or, The Days of Henri Quatre by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

Taking advantage of the smoke and excitement, Frank Mayne’s adversary struck at him once more, and made a leap to escape, dragging the half-insensible assigned servant with him; but the grasp was too tenacious, and though he tried hard, Mayne held on to the end; only sinking back when a pair of handcuffs had secured the prisoner’s hands behind his back.
— from First in the Field: A Story of New South Wales by George Manville Fenn

For a time I thought I should never be able to reach it, and then with a rush I thought of Muriel, and all that the future held for us, and I made a last terrible effort, dragged myself across the few feet remaining between myself and the door, and, with barely enough strength left to reach up and turn the knob, managed somehow to fall across the threshold and into the hall.
— from The Green God by Frederic Arnold Kummer

After hearing this testimony, as it occurred between Marina and Lee that evening, do you think that could have had anything to do with his attitudes and feelings the next day?
— from Warren Commission (11 of 26): Hearings Vol. XI (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

The different ideas of monism and materialism , and likewise the essentially distinct tendencies of theoretical and practical materialism, are still very frequently confused.
— from The Riddle of the Universe at the close of the nineteenth century by Ernst Haeckel

—The actual hour at which the Sabbath was held is specified in very few cases; it appears to have been a [112] nocturnal assembly, beginning about midnight and lasting till early dawn or cockcrow.
— from The Witch-cult in Western Europe: A Study in Anthropology by Margaret Alice Murray

For the moment at least, the English do not care what we do or what we think or whether we exist—except those critics of things-in-general who use us as a target since they must take a crack at somebody.
— from The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II by Burton Jesse Hendrick