Not from curiosity, such as moved most of the people about me, but because of some strong instinctive feeling I could not understand; as if it were my heart which had been struck, and my fate which was trembling in the balance.
— from The Woman in the Alcove by Anna Katharine Green

With a millionaire at my back for a mascot, and one strong star, I fancy I could cut a pretty wide gash through the English dramatic stage.
— from The Daft Days by Neil Munro

After much study of this virtuous product of the mountain regions of our Southern States I find it capable of great development.
— from How to make rugs by Candace Wheeler

With a millionaire at my back for a mascot and one strong star, I fancy I could cut a pretty wide gash through the English dramatic stage.
— from Bud: A Novel by Neil Munro

To the Aragonese the plateau is accessible only through the valleys of the Guadalupe, Martin, and Jiloca, and it is these which have enabled them to obtain possession of the upland of Teruel, which is of such strategical importance, from its commanding position between the basins of the Guadalaviar, Júcar, and Tajo.
— from The Earth and its inhabitants, Volume 1: Europe. Greece, Turkey in Europe, Rumania, Servia, Montenegro, Italy, Spain, and Portugal. by Elisée Reclus

At one small station I found in charge a stat
— from Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland by Joseph Tatlow

For I shall feel the rush of streets Shooting inquisitive fingers into chaos, Piercing the night's remote divinity.
— from Poems by Iris Tree