This will provide a rail less expensive to build than a concrete rail and one which will last longer and save on tires.
— from Motor Truck Logging Methods Engineering Experiment Station Series, Bulletin No. 12 by Frederick Malcolm Knapp

Over-work and this emotional shock produced a result likely enough to occur in one of his ardent temperament.
— from The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother by George H. (George Henry) Napheys

From this mask falls a long veil which completely conceals the dancer's body and produces a resemblance lively enough to give to this ceremony the name of "The Dance of the Marabouts."
— from Indo-China and Its Primitive People by Henry Baudesson

Gordon Lee, sitting up in bed with this liberal repast spread on the bread-board across his knees, and his large, bare feet, with their pink adornments, rising like ebony tombstones at the foot of the bed, forgot his grievance.
— from Miss Mink's Soldier and Other Stories by Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice

George Sand, with her lifelong passion for propaganda and reformation, labors earnestly to bring Flaubert to her point of view, to remould him nearer to her heart's desire.
— from The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters by George Sand

“She’s as graceful as a hitching post,” Adelaine replied, loud enough to be heard by several who stood near.
— from Rilla of the Lighthouse by Grace May North

With her own dainty fingers, each rolled up a leaf of the betel-nut, enclosing in it several kinds of spices, and filling it with a good pinch of tobacco, which, our Spanish friend explained, was not so much for the taste, as to make the morsel plump and round, large enough to fill the mouth (or, as a wine-taster would say of his favorite madeira or port, to give it sufficient body ); and also, he added, it was to clean the teeth, and to give an aromatic fragrance to the breath!
— from From Egypt to Japan by Henry M. (Henry Martyn) Field