MOUSE model displays some of the earliest solar cells made (under square cover on front).
— from Rockets, Missiles, and Spacecraft of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution by Lynne C. Murphy

And then everything that we include in the term "actual forbearance"—misfortunes of life out of which privations of love arise, poverty, family discord, unfortunate choice in marriage, unfavorable social conditions and the severity of moral claims.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

No, this is my unhappiness....” She could hear the sound of her son’s voice coming towards them, and glancing swiftly round the terrace, she got up impulsively.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

As we were going along the people stared; not at Queequeg so much—for they were used to seeing cannibals like him in their streets,—but at seeing him and me upon such confidential terms.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

The Creator said they would have done the same as man under similar circumstances; whereupon [ 304 ] Asa and Asael proposed that the experiment should be tried.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

It will not do to ask the Bobo Gildings, not because of the difference in age but because Lucy Gilding smokes like a furnace and is miserable unless she can play bridge for high stakes, and, just as soon as she can bolt through dinner, sit at a card table; while Mrs. Highbrow and Mrs. Oncewere quite possibly disapprove of women's smoking and are surely horrified at "gambling."
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

Sir, it is not unnatural that an arrest made under such circumstances should have attracted attention in that town and throughout Massachusetts.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 06 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

All the first night we spent in mixing up some combustible matter, with aqua vitae, gunpowder, and such other materials as we could get; and having a good quantity of tar in a little pot, about an hour after night we set out upon our expedition.
— from The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

The latter returned the gaze and for a few moments it was a duel of stare; neither appeared disposed to open the conversation, while in the mind of each there dawned a suspicion, and finally the young stranger mustered up sufficient courage to ask: "Say, young fellow, who are you?" CHAPTER II.
— from The Twin Ventriloquists; or, Nimble Ike and Jack the Juggler A Tale of Strategy and Jugglery by Old Sleuth

It is true that a nervous person might, under such circumstances, faint and become insensible by mere nervous shock; but a true sudden narcosis is impossible.
— from Poisons, Their Effects and Detection A Manual for the Use of Analytical Chemists and Experts by Alexander Wynter Blyth

I think I told you that the old lady has a claim upon the estate, which, most unfortunately, she cannot establish.
— from Guild Court: A London Story by George MacDonald

It sometimes happens, that a man undergoes such changes, that I should hardly call him the same.
— from Ethics — Part 4 by Benedictus de Spinoza

Max under such conditions would wisely seek safety in flight.
— from With Trapper Jim in the North Woods by Lawrence J. Leslie