To some, fortune comes on the brink of the grave, to some never, and now and then the most inexperienced "tenderfoot" stumbles upon wealth at the very outset of his search.
— from The Mystic Mid-Region: The Deserts of the Southwest by Arthur J. (Arthur Jerome) Burdick

It was terrible to think of some of these poor men in their shoddy uniforms, without an overcoat, going off to face a long German winter.
— from Field Hospital and Flying Column Being the Journal of an English Nursing Sister in Belgium & Russia by Violetta Thurstan

And when a girl of twenty, with a secret on her mind, is thus shut up with an elder woman whom she likes, with no one else within hearing, and after half an hour’s profound silence, that is the very moment in which a confidential disclosure is sure to come.
— from Ombra by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

[1729] The moral ideal thus supplies us with a ground [1730] for regarding the universe as systematically ordered according to moral purposes, and also with a principle that enables us to infer the nature and properties of its Supreme Cause.
— from A Commentary to Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason' by Norman Kemp Smith