We did not easily regain our seats; the lottery was begun, and all was excited confusion; crowds blocked the sort of corridor along which we had to pass: it was necessary to pause for a time.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

It may have been silly, but it was not either revolutionary or socialistic.'
— from The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 2 by Stephen Lucius Gwynn

Now this is found to be the case with nearly every race of savages of whose condition we have any knowledge.
— from The Evolution of Culture, and Other Essays by Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers

Th and s often interchange in anlaut , some dialects of Kuki-Chin showing the intermediate stage of θ, which in Burmese now everywhere replaces original s .
— from The Mikirs by Edward Stack

The numerous experimental researches on specific heat, latent heat, the tension of vapours, the properties of water, the mechanical effect of heat, etc., resulted in the development of steam-engines, and railways, and the almost endless employments depending upon their construction and use.
— from Town Geology by Charles Kingsley

[416] At these sacrifices there is no elaborate ritual or suggestion of symbolism.
— from Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 by Eliot, Charles, Sir

France and Russia had now established relations of such amity that their ambassadors jointly threatened to quit Constantinople if the elections were not annulled.
— from A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878 by Charles Alan Fyffe

—At a recent meeting of the Archæological Institute, Mr. Nesbitt exhibited rubbings of some fine brasses at Bamberg, Naumberg, Meissen, and Erfurt.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 186, May 21, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various