I soon had her focused, but found to my intense disappointment that, owing to her great distance and the rarefied condition of the atmosphere due to the intense heat of the day, I was unable to make out very much more in the shape of detail than was possible with the naked eye; the craft, as seen through the telescope, appearing to be merely a wavering blot of creamy white, with another wavering blot of dark colour, representing the hull, below it; a dark line with a spiral motion to it, which made it look like a corkscrew, representing above the sails the bare topgallant and royal-masts.
— from The Congo Rovers: A Story of the Slave Squadron by Harry Collingwood

So he ordered a retreat, and the honest Saxons chased the flying Normans, expecting to catch and slay them.
— from Hero Tales from History by Smith Burnham

Are we not entitled to call a slight tendency of a nascent amorphous precipitate to fall down in advance of another a “ physical difference ” ?
— from The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 1 of 4 by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky

It is a fact that our boasted civilization, instead of affording surer protection, murders more men in one way or another than barbarism, only in the present case the victims are not eaten; the coffins are sumptuous; the processions decorous; the mourners in good form; the burial service pregnant with hope, and culture is not shocked.
— from A Republic Without a President, and Other Stories by Herbert D. (Herbert Dickinson) Ward

“I wonder that you did not enter the citadel and stay there till the convoy arrived.”
— from Won By the Sword : a tale of the Thirty Years' War by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

The Griffons instinctively found out that man never entered these caverns, and so took possession of them.
— from Bible Animals; Being a Description of Every Living Creature Mentioned in the Scripture, from the Ape to the Coral. by J. G. (John George) Wood

Even Presbyterian Scotland did not escape the contagion, and some theologians and preachers of the Kirk at that time are now praised for their liberal views of religion, that is, for their want of real faith.
— from The Irish Race in the Past and the Present by Augustus J. Thébaud

It is not easy to conceive a situation that lacks the element of history in one or another of its phases or manifestations.
— from The Vitalized School by Francis B. (Francis Bail) Pearson