In this paper, on the pretended authority of Professor Ebeling, we are told "that Robison had lived too fast for his income, and to supply deficiencies had undertaken to alter a bank bill, that he was detected and fled to France; that having been expelled the Lodge in Edinburgh, he applied in France for the second grade, but was refused; that he made the same attempt in Germany and afterwards in Russia, but never succeeded; and from this entertained the bitterest hatred to masonry; and after wandering about Europe for two years, by writing to Secretary Dundas, and presenting a copy of his book, which, it was judged, would answer certain purposes of the ministry, the prosecution against him was stopped, the Professor returned in triumph to his country, and now lives upon a handsome pension, instead of suffering the fate of his predecessor Dodd."
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

With this admission freely made, if after reading what follows in this and the next chapter, and weighing the same in the light of all that has preceded, the reader does not decide that the writer, far from being animated by any intelligent high purpose, is merely a foolish person of the sounding-brass-and-tinkling-cymbal variety full of sound and fury signifying nothing, then he can reach but one other conclusion, viz., that colonization by a republic like ours, such as that we blundered into by purchasing the Philippines, is a case of a house divided against itself, a case of the soul of a nation at war with the better angels of its nature, a case where considerations of what may be demanded by home considerations of political expediency will always operate to the detriment of the Filipino people, and be the controlling factor in our government of them.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

So Roger Chillingworth—the man of skill, the kind and friendly physician—strove to go deep into his patient's bosom, delving among his principles, prying into his recollections, and probing everything with a cautious touch, like a treasure-seeker in a dark cavern.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

I would then defer my ramble, or confine myself for that day to the park and gardens, or, if the proposed excursion was a matter of importance, such as a visit to the sick or afflicted, I would take Rachel with me, and then I was never molested.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

The same formidable lightning proceeds from the torch of Prometheus to Cambronne’s short pipe. H2 anchor CHAPTER XII—THE FUTURE LATENT IN THE PEOPLE As for the Parisian populace, even when a man grown, it is always the street Arab; to paint the child is to paint the city; and it is for that reason that we have studied this eagle in this arrant sparrow.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

But the black beetles took no notice of the agitation, and groped about the hearth in a ponderous elderly way, as if they were short-sighted and hard of hearing, and not on terms with one another.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

A public entrance was arranged, which took place some fifteen days after his reaching the city.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

His person showed marks of habitual neglect, his dress was slovenly; and yet there was something in the presence of the old Squire distinguishable from that of the ordinary farmers in the parish, who were perhaps every whit as refined as he, but, having slouched their way through life with a consciousness of being in the vicinity of their "betters", wanted that self-possession and authoritativeness of voice and carriage which belonged to a man who thought of superiors as remote existences with whom he had personally little more to do than with America or the stars.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot

Each one was working out his part of a plan; each was a responsive unit of the system of training for such affairs.
— from My Second Year of the War by Frederick Palmer

For they continued in existence through two or three centuries, dating, as Baur has shown, from a time anterior not only to the Christian heresies, but to Christianity itself, and extending down to Origen's time; and to what part of this long period the writings belonged which the author of the "Philosophumena" employed, we are absolutely unable to determine.
— from Studies of Christianity; Or, Timely Thoughts for Religious Thinkers by James Martineau

From this point everything was a blank to Dantès—he knew nothing more, not even the length of time he had been imprisoned.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Perhaps it was his strange surroundings, although Elmer could hardly believe such to be the case, for past experiences were against it.
— from Storm-Bound; or, A Vacation Among the Snow Drifts by Douglas, Alan, Captain

Whole masses of electors whose right to vote had been established at the previous election were arbitrarily disfranchised.
— from Bolshevism: The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy by John Spargo

[23-25] The 1964 presidential election was at hand to test this consensus.
— from Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 by Morris J. MacGregor

On the first night the play opened propitiously enough with a loud laugh due to the only accident of the kind that ever happened at the Lyceum.
— from The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections by Ellen Terry

When Watt's perfected engine was available, however, this was utilized to pump water from the tail race back to the head race, that it might be used over and over.
— from Every-day Science: Volume 6. The Conquest of Nature by Edward Huntington Williams