While God has meant that reason should rule over passion, and that every sexual impulse should yield to other requirements and activities, yet He has wisely purposed that these leadings of our nature should be pronounced and strong.
— from What a Young Husband Ought to Know by Sylvanus Stall

The woman's whereabouts is unknown to the police, and the elder sister is still missing.
— from The Secrets of the Great City A Work Descriptive of the Virtues and the Vices, the Mysteries, Miseries and Crimes of New York City by James Dabney McCabe

Any anxiety that prevailed as to Egypt settled itself shortly afterwards owing to the Gallipoli troops, so skilfully withdrawn from Anzac, Suvla and Helles, all assembling in the Nile Delta, where they were refitted and obtained some rest after their terribly arduous campaign in the Thracian Chersonese.
— from Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918 by Callwell, C. E. (Charles Edward), Sir

He was always prowling about the East Side in search of sociological prey, and the modest little woman with her
— from Visionaries by James Huneker

Most of the domestic rice crop entering into commerce is packed in buri sacks and practically all the export sugar is sent away in them.
— from Philippine Mats Philippine Craftsman Reprint Series No. 1 by Philippines. Bureau of Education

Inevitably the forces interacted: Montesquieu and Rousseau alike dealt with both the religious and the social issues; d’Holbach in his first polemic, the Christianisme dévoilé , opens the stern impeachment of kings and rulers which he develops so powerfully in the Essai sur les Préjugés ; and the Encyclopédie sent its search-rays over all the fields of inquiry.
— from A Short History of Freethought Ancient and Modern, Volume 2 of 2 Third edition, Revised and Expanded, in two volumes by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson

In the background figured a multitude of ladies, the lean, the plump, and the elephantine, some in sacque frocks, some in the hairbreadth ridi ; high-born and low, slave and mistress; from the queen to the scullion, from the favourite to the scraggy sentries at the palisade.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 18 by Robert Louis Stevenson