Another father was writhing in the premature hell of leaving a shy little unprotected boy to starve.
— from We Can't Have Everything: A Novel by Rupert Hughes

But if he proposes murder as a means of enforcing them he puts his own life at stake.
— from Anarchy and Anarchists A History of the Red Terror and the Social Revolution in America and Europe; Communism, Socialism, and Nihilism in Doctrine and in Deed; The Chicago Haymarket Conspiracy and the Detection and Trial of the Conspirators by Michael J. Schaack

Various accounts are given; various explanations made; of the great cry, that the sailors, "coming from Paloda," heard over land and sea.
— from Visions and Revisions: A Book of Literary Devotions by John Cowper Powys

[147] Practical Hints on Light and Shade in Painting, by John Burnet, 1826, pp. 25, 26.
— from Letters of Edward FitzGerald, in Two Volumes. Vol. 1 by Edward FitzGerald

It is true that the State in its irony allows them the option of a fine; but the law might as well ask the youths of the underworld to pay ten pounds as ask them to pay ten shillings; nor can they procure all at once the smaller sum, so to prison hundreds of lads are sent.
— from London's Underworld by Thomas Holmes

This subject has been so admirably treated by John Burnet in his essay entitled "Practical Hints on Light and Shade,"
— from Crayon Portraiture Complete Instructions for Making Crayon Portraits on Crayon Paper and on Platinum, Silver and Bromide Enlargements by Jerome A. Barhydt

There must be no compromise, by which the tenant agrees to provide his own linen and silver; that would neutralize the effect I intend by the expropriation of the personal proprietor, if that says what I mean.
— from The Standard Household-Effect Company (from Literature and Life) by William Dean Howells

Here, of course, Lamb is really speaking of the spirit of the poems; his own Latinity, as shown by the Latin letters which he was fond of intermingling with his correspondence, was more copious than correct.
— from Essays by Arthur Christopher Benson

But Tharon Last, muttering to herself in the hatred that possessed her of late at sight of Courtrey, raised her own doubled fist and shook it high toward him, an answer, an acceptance of that challenge.
— from Tharon of Lost Valley by Vingie E. (Vingie Eve) Roe