Two of them had been detailed to fetch up the horses grazing in the reed-bed, and the remainder, 163 having just sighted Redgrave and Constable Kearney, stood to their arms with sufficient determination.
— from The Squatter's Dream: A Story of Australian Life by Rolf Boldrewood
When making her rug, Aunt Cornelia knitted several strips a couple of inches in width and the length she wished the finished rug to be.
— from Mary at the Farm and Book of Recipes Compiled during Her Visit among the "Pennsylvania Germans" by Edith May Bertels Thomas
The feeling of conscience (being, I repeat, a certain keen sensibility, pleasant or painful,—self-approval and hope, or compunction and fear,—attendant on certain of our actions, which in consequence we call right or wrong) is twofold:—it is a moral sense, and a sense of duty; a judgment of the reason and a magisterial dictate.
— from An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent by John Henry Newman
A peculiar feminine strain has often been imputed to the Malay temperament, yet this same Oceanic people displays in many respects a curiously kindred spirit with the ordinary Englishman, as, for instance, in his love of gambling, boxing, cock-fighting, field sports
— from Man, Past and Present by A. H. (Augustus Henry) Keane
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