He was rather disappointed, therefore; but he bore his disappointment pretty well, and expressed a placid and rather stoical satisfaction at the turn which affairs had taken.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Mr. Kipling is, in a precise and rather startling sense, the exception that proves the rule.
— from What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Studies Oratory at Rhodes, 76-75 B.C. Composita seditione civili Cornelium Dolabellam consularem et triumphalem repetundarum postulavit; absolutoque Rhodum secedere statuit, et ad declinandam invidiam et ut per otium ac requiem
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

The Pyrates went on all the while, plundering and robbing several Ships and Vessels, bending their Course towards Newfoundland , where they designed to raise more Men, and do all the Mischief they could on the Banks, and in the Harbours.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

"It was a pleasing and refreshing sight," says the Jesuit chronicler
— from The Moors in Spain by Stanley Lane-Poole

Now times are changed, and one poetic itch Has seized the court and city, poor and rich: Sons, sires, and grandsires, all will wear the bays, Our wives read Milton, and our daughters plays, To theatres, and to rehearsals throng, And all our grace at table is a song.
— from An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires by Alexander Pope

" After a pause, "A remarkable story," said the general distinctly.
— from The Fortieth Door by Mary Hastings Bradley

“Does that mean we’re bound to run up against 085.png a real sand storm?”
— from The Broncho Rider Boys Along the Border Or, The Hidden Treasure of the Zuni Medicine Man by Frank Fowler

Both boys hugged every fence and wall until they reached the offending barrels; then Matt's heart began pumping again, receiving some sympathy from that of Jack.
— from The Worst Boy in Town by John Habberton

"I have left Primrose at Rosebury," she said; "we have made inquiries, and there is no doubt a child resembling Daisy went down by the night train yesterday.
— from The Palace Beautiful: A Story for Girls by L. T. Meade

If it is possible to inject our religion into their blood, it must have been accomplished in Tahiti, but in my opinion the efforts of three generations of missionaries have produced a result surprisingly small on this island—the most civilized of the South 268 Pacific—where heathen superstition is far from dead to-day.
— from Faery Lands of the South Seas by James Norman Hall

Monopoly is thus likewise able to purchase competing plants at ridiculously small sums, by first making them valueless through fierce price-cutting, or by threats of it.
— from The Principles of Economics, with Applications to Practical Problems by Frank A. (Frank Albert) Fetter

In the church, from highest ecclesiastic and layman, wherever in the professions a religious, scientific, scholarly mind, there was felt the central intellectual commotion of those years—the Battle of the Great Three.
— from The Reign of Law; a tale of the Kentucky hemp fields by James Lane Allen