[310] {v1-630} § 7 [311] These seven centuries which saw the beginning and the end of the emperors in Rome and the complete breakdown and recasting of the social, economic, political, and religious life of Western Europe, saw also very profound changes in the Chinese world.
— from The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

And he took us into a workshop, littered over with shavings and sawdust, where among planks and rough logs of wood were various useful things of his own making.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 15, Nos. 85-90, April 1872-September 1872 A Monthly Magazine by Various

“Behold me here with my sea-hawks to present a reckoning long overdue.” Writing now of what his own eyes beheld, Lord Henry tells us how Sir John leapt to snatch a weapon from the armoured walls; how Sakr-el-Bahr barked out a single word in Arabic, and how at that word a half-dozen of his supple blackamoors sprang upon the knight like greyhounds upon a hare and bore him writhing to the ground.
— from The Sea-Hawk by Rafael Sabatini

In a very chastened form, however, the spirit that would put a reasonable limit on what the State shall be asked to do happily does survive and is powerful.
— from Social Justice Without Socialism by John Bates Clark

For undoubtedly, [Pg 237] while Gautier had an all but unsurpassed command of the short story proper, a really long one was apt to develop some things in him which, if they were not essentially faults, were not likely to improve a full-sized novel.
— from A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury