These repeated annoyances could have at last but one effect—they shook his confidence.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

This protest being held inadmissible, she rose again, crossed herself, and, leaning on her maids, approached the king, threw herself at his feet, and addressed him in a pathetic speech.
— from Cassell's History of England, Vol. 2 (of 8) From the Wars of the Roses to the Great Rebellion by Anonymous

“It would have involved a great deal more risk, and could have accomplished little or nothing for them.
— from The Flying Boys in the Sky by Edward Sylvester Ellis

“Why, sir,” he replied, after contemplating her, and looking over the schooner’s side for some time, “this craft has got as clean a pair of heels as any vessel I was ever aboard; and though our brig, I’ll allow, is no laggard, I doubt if she’ll overtake her, if the wind holds steady, before we reach the West Indies, where, I take it, we are bound.”
— from Salt Water: The Sea Life and Adventures of Neil D'Arcy the Midshipman by William Henry Giles Kingston

The ever-increasing jealousy between Rome and Constantinople had at last reached a height which made even nominal union impossible, and the smouldering fire burst into sudden flame.
— from Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History by Annie Besant

Hence the reaction I 2 + H 2 = HI + HI is very easily reversible, and consequently has a limit, and hydrogen iodide easily dissociates.
— from The Principles of Chemistry, Volume I by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev

We left instructions with Joe to remain at Cape Herschel as long as they could find enough to eat there; but if there was more game further down the coast, or on the main-land, to go there, and leave stones to indicate their route, so Toolooah would know where to look for them when we returned from Cape Felix.
— from Schwatka's Search: Sledging in the Arctic in Quest of the Franklin Records by William H. (William Henry) Gilder

They had to sit Miles apart, with Mountains of unseemly Victuals stacked between them, while some moss-grown Offshoot of the Family Tree rose and conquered his Asthma long enough to propose a Toast to the Bride.
— from Ade's Fables by George Ade

Her mind went back over all the events that had taken place since the first time she had stood in the long drawing room at Carver House and looked up at the picture of Elizabeth Carver.
— from The Camp Fire Girls Do Their Bit; Or, Over the Top with the Winnebagos by Hildegard G. Frey

All at once, however, orders for a general retreat arrived, Chanzy having at last decided to fall back on Le Mans.
— from My Days of Adventure The Fall of France, 1870-71 by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly