At such times the more exuberant among them called out in an excited manner on our emergence round some corner of expectancy, “ Here they come!”
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

In it lie the germs of much of our European religions and philosophies, customs, and institutions.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

The French were disposed so as to march on our extreme right, in order to attack the enemy’s left,
— from The Young Dragoon: Every Day Life of a Soldier by Alfred W. (Alfred Wilks) Drayson

The first moving object our eyes rest upon is a goose, and we decide to use him as a model.
— from How to Amuse Youself and Others: The American Girl's Handy Book by Lina Beard

The communistic societies of the United States, for instance, are mostly organizations of eccentric religious sects which have no part or influence in the life of the century.
— from Contemporary Socialism by John Rae

This would bar much of our existing reading matter.
— from A Librarian's Open Shelf: Essays on Various Subjects by Arthur E. (Arthur Elmore) Bostwick

The extent of the reduction, indeed, unavoidably involved the exclusion of many meritorious officers of every rank from the service of their country; and so equal as well as so numerous were the claims to attention that a decision by the standard of comparative merit could seldom be attained.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

There were Joseph Sinzheim, first rabbi of Strasbourg, foremost Talmudist and considered the most scholarly member of the Assembly, who was made president of the Assembly and later chairman of the Great Sanhedrin; Michel Berr, afterwards the first French Jew to practice at the bar; Abraham Furtado, son of a marano or crypto-Jewish Portuguese family from which was also descended the wife of the first Benjamin D'Israeli and Sir John Simon; Isaac Samuel d'Avigdor of Nice, grandfather of Jules d'Avigdor who was a member of the Piedmont Parliament; Israel Ottolenghi, an ancestor of Italy's late Minister of War; Abraham de Cologna, rabbi of Mantua, a great political leader and reformer; and many others of equal rank and caliber.
— from Under Four Administrations, from Cleveland to Taft Recollections of Oscar S. Straus ... by Oscar S. (Oscar Solomon) Straus

Her models were what Milton called the "fantastics," a school of poets who mistook for manifestations of poetic power, far-fetched and strained metaphors, oddities of expression, remote comparisons, conceits, and strange groupings of thought.
— from History of American Literature by Reuben Post Halleck

Its graduates, in civil life or in the army, built most of our early railroads, ran our surveys, constructed our canals, lighthouses, and public buildings. ...
— from The Book Review Digest, Volume 13, 1917 Thirteenth Annual Cumulation Reviews of 1917 Books by Various