These people here are now nervous and unstrung and actually believe that America will now enter the war against them.
— from Face to Face with Kaiserism by James W. (James Watson) Gerard

he returned, rather peremptorily; and Phillis had a notion now what manner of man he had been before misfortunes had tamed and subdued him.
— from Not Like Other Girls by Rosa Nouchette Carey

The carp did the same; and [Pg 21] the perch hung a nice nest of eggs in between the reeds where the warblers had built their nest.
— from The Pond by Carl Ewald

The poor patients had almost no nursing, and his heart ached.
— from Under Many Flags by Elsie Singmaster

Had he never spoken again, this idea would have procured him a niche next to Francis Bacon.
— from International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 by Various

However when these glands are excited into motions stronger than usual, either by the acrimony of their fluids, or by their own irritability being much increased, then the sensation of pain is produced in them as in all the other senses of the body; and these pains are all of different kinds, and hence the glands at this time really become each a different organ of sense, though these different kinds of pain have acquired no names.
— from Zoonomia; Or, the Laws of Organic Life, Vol. I by Erasmus Darwin

he asked genially, and his wife replied: "Precious has a new notion in her silly little noddle.
— from The Senator's Favorite by Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.

All the inhabitants of the once famous Ephesus, the chief of this part of Asia, as the mistress governing the rest, by the residence of the proconsul here, amount now not to above forty or fifty families of Turks, living in poor thatched cottages, without, says Wheler, one Christian among them.
— from Ruins of Ancient Cities (Vol. 1 of 2) With General and Particular Accounts of Their Rise, Fall, and Present Condition by Charles Bucke