Indeed, of late, life at Marino had been far from comfortable.
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

In compiling these lists the recorded observations of other naturalists have been freely utilized, especially the papers of Lord Lilford and Mr. Howard Saunders in the Ibis , and Col. Irby's "Ornithology of the Straits of Gibraltar."
— from Wild Spain (España agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration by Abel Chapman

The first accounts estimated the number of lives lost at many hundreds, but when the state statistician collated the local reports sent in he was happy to find that not more than seventy persons had perished.
— from Minnesota, the North Star State by William Watts Folwell

Scarcely looking to left or right, but hastening with impatient paces he hurried onward, less like a man hastening to some eagerly-sought shelter, than like one flying from some hated thing behind his back.
— from The New Abelard: A Romance, Volume 3 (of 3) by Robert Williams Buchanan

See, that one looks like a mysterious hand raised to beckon us away.
— from Dora Thorne by Charlotte M. Brame

It is true that Major Morgan’s “drag-net” had not cleared the neighborhood of everyone who was subject to military duty, for a few of the desperate ones, like Lambert and Moseley, had taken to the woods, and a few others had joined the Yankees in Baton Rouge, where they were safe from pursuit; but it had caught the most of the able-bodied men and boys of Tom’s acquaintance, and now he found himself almost alone.
— from Sailor Jack, the Trader by Harry Castlemon

They live like kings in what, outside, looks like a mud hut.
— from General Gordon A Christian Hero by Seton Churchill

On the whole, our liquor laws are more honored in the breach than the observance.
— from The Washington Historical Quarterly, Volume V, 1914 by Various