In return, my uncle nearly crushed his hands, so warmly did he shake them.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

Nothing could have seemed more unreal; nothing could have been more exquisitely enjoyable.
— from Intermere by William Alexander Taylor

But now my Mother perceived I had some more complaisance than before for Antonio ; she wondred he talked nothing of Marriage to her, and told me her thoughts, which put me upon new contrivances, how I might shun her Anger, and yet
— from Olinda's Adventures: or the Amours of a Young Lady by Catharine Trotter

This inestimable person assured his master that nothing but the most urgent necessity could have induced him to take such a course.
— from Lord Loveland Discovers America by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

Interspecific matings under laboratory conditions [Pg 533] are not uncommon and several verbal reports of such matings under natural conditions have reached me.
— from Natural History of the Ornate Box Turtle, Terrapene ornata ornata Agassiz by John M. Legler

As the clock maker, under normal conditions, has but little to do with his handiwork, so it has been with the Creator and his universe.
— from Communism and Christianism Analyzed and Contrasted from the Marxian and Darwinian Points of View by William Montgomery Brown

As he continued, however, importunately to insist on seeing some one of the family, and stated his [Pg 294] business to be of the most urgent nature, Claud Halcro at length appeared, and, with more peevishness than belonged to his usual manner, that admirer of glorious John expostulated with his old acquaintance upon his pertinacious folly.
— from The Pirate Andrew Lang Edition by Walter Scott

Nothing, indeed, but the most urgent necessity could have driven the king to attempt so difficult an enterprise.
— from With Frederick the Great: A Story of the Seven Years' War by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Henry Storm was his name, and a milder mannered man with a more unsuitable name could hardly be found.
— from In a Steamer Chair, and Other Stories by Robert Barr