“The Seneca nation, ever the largest, and guarding the western door of the ‘long house,’ which was threatened alike from the north, west, and south, had traditions peculiarly their own, besides those common to the other members of the confederacy.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Instead of the church representing all the truth to the world, we find the beginning of a great apostasy, which in time was to eclipse and well nigh extinguish the light and glory of primitive Christianity by substituting in its
— from The Last Reformation by F. G. (Frederick George) Smith

Ludibras: I think it is not easy to leave a great city.
— from Plays of Gods and Men by Lord Dunsany

"Some; but not enough to last a great while.
— from Down the Slope by James Otis

That fact of itself shows that that process had already begun which is still not ended, the long and gloomy work of which Finlay steeled himself to write the story, the History of Greece under Foreign Domination.
— from The Chief Periods of European History Six lectures read in the University of Oxford in Trinity term, 1885 by Edward A. (Edward Augustus) Freeman

The drag-net of the Free Press was no exception to this rule; but, one day, it fetched up from the depths of the hard commonplaces of our New England town life a genuine pearl.
— from William Lloyd Garrison, the Abolitionist by Archibald Henry Grimké

It is not easy to lay a good stone wall less than eighteen inches in thickness.
— from Convenient Houses, With Fifty Plans for the Housekeeper by Louis H. (Louis Henry) Gibson

It was now evident that Lee, anticipating Grant's strategy, had set about thwarting it.
— from Three Years in the Sixth Corps A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865 by George T. (George Thomas) Stevens

But presently he came to a standstill in front of the clerk, and said gloomily, "You have told us ill news enough to last a good many years; so, unless there is more to come, you may go on to the next part, and tell us any good news you have."
— from 'Neath the Hoof of the Tartar; Or, The Scourge of God by Jósika, Miklós, báró