Poprob had exhausted every rational attempt and the new Poprobattacklines would have to be irrational or sub-rational.
— from The Marching Morons by C. M. (Cyril M.) Kornbluth

Plausibility has ended; empty Routine has ended; much has ended.
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

By sea and land every precaution was taken to prevent his escape, every road, pass and landing place being guarded, and the whole coast being patrolled by government vessels in such numbers that no craft, however small, could approach or leave the island unobserved, except perhaps under cover of darkness by special good fortune, while some two thousand soldiers made diligent search on shore; in addition to which a prize of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars was offered for his capture.
— from A Year in Europe by Walter W. (Walter William) Moore

To animate his brethren to perfection, he employed example, rather than precept.
— from The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi by Candide Chalippe

my dear Miss Ellis, if every body judged you as justly as I do; but when people have enemies—' 'Enemies?' repeated Ellis, amazed, 'surely, Madam, you are not serious?—Enemies?
— from The Wanderer; or, Female Difficulties (Volume 2 of 5) by Fanny Burney

He could depose prelates and excommunicate the greatest personages; he enjoyed enormous revenues; he was vicegerent of the Pope.
— from Beacon Lights of History, Volume 3 part 1: The Middle Ages by John Lord

And, in his role as peacekeeper, he effectively extricated Russia from the war psychosis that Messrs. Primakov et al. were trying to plunge Russia into.
— from After the Rain : how the West lost the East by Samuel Vaknin

The blue flames from the abyss, roaring in a way that neither of the prisoners had ever experienced, reached upward in searing tongues toward the invisible roof of this place.
— from Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 by Various

The Pampopas 'habitaban en el rio de las Nueces, à 22 leguas al Sur de la mision de San Juan Bautista; los Tilijaes mas abajo de los anteriores; al Sur de estos los Patacales, y los Cachopostales cerca de los Pampopas.
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 1, Wild Tribes The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 1 by Hubert Howe Bancroft

Dickens thought Allonby the dullest place he ever entered, rendered additionally dull by “the monotony of an idle sea,” and in sad contrast to the expectations formed of it.
— from The Dickens Country by Frederic George Kitton