dislike.—When they had nothing else to say, it must be always easy to begin abusing Miss Woodhouse; and the enmity which they dared not shew in open disrespect to her, found a broader vent in contemptuous treatment of Harriet.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

When threatening symptoms appeared to his left front, he did his best to watch this quarter by despatching successively three small bodies of his best-mounted burghers, under A. Cronje, Lubbe, and Christian de Wet, some 1,200 in all; but he made no effort to set in motion his partly dismounted main force of about 6,000 men, with its unwieldy laager.
— from War and the Arme Blanche by Erskine Childers

Of "Uncle Tom and his Wife for Sale," it is not easy to speak in moderation, as assuredly it is impossible to look at it, and keep from bursting into tears and laughter all at once.
— from Horae subsecivae. Rab and His Friends, and Other Papers by John Brown

I did not enter the sale in my books at the time because Miss Newton said she was in a hurry.
— from The Lost Despatch by Natalie Sumner Lincoln

It is separated from the mainland of the parish from which it takes, or to which, perhaps, it gives its name, by a channel called Dalkey Sound, which is about nine hundred yards long, three hundred and eight yards wide at its south entrance, and two hundred and nine yards wide at its north entrance; the soundings in mid-channel varying from ten to five fathoms.
— from The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 21, November 21, 1840 by Various

She also formed the conclusion that she on her side was meant not to urge Elizabeth any more, nor even to see if Mr. Martin could not probe and heal her trouble.
— from Arundel by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

There is no equivalent to “slick” in Megalian.
— from The Island Mystery by George A. Birmingham

Rather a robust method of conciliating their affection; not exactly the suaviter in modo. .
— from Old Calabria by Norman Douglas

Fused nitre solidifies to a radiated crystalline mass; but it does not exhibit this structure if metallic chlorides be present, so that this method may be taken advantage of to determine the degree of purity of nitre.
— from The Principles of Chemistry, Volume I by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev