To a speculative mind, that had retained an ingenuous sense of nature's inexhaustible resources and of man's essential continuity with other natural things, there could be no ground for doubting that similar principles (could they be traced in detail) would be seen to preside over all man's action and passion.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

I have now given the reader an imperfect sketch of nine years’ experience in freedom—three years as a common laborer on the wharves of New Bedford, four years as a lecturer in New England, and two years of semi-exile in Great Britain and Ireland.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

The dogs were either wandering restlessly about in search of new adventures, or were stretched out at their masters' feet.
— from The Dogs of Boytown by Walter A. (Walter Alden) Dyer

They are all composed in Redondilhas , arranged in stanzas of nine or ten lines each, called decimas .
— from History of Spanish and Portuguese Literature (Vol 2 of 2) by Friedrich Bouterwek

It was what a young kindergarten teacher might describe as a trunk from which the branches had been riven away in some of Nature's convulsions, probably electric.
— from The Cassowary; What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains by Stanley Waterloo

His whole expression is the opposite to that of the Duke, not repose, but restless activity in search of new objects.
— from The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 by Various

O. N. jo before r > a in starn (O. N. stjorn ).
— from Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch A contribution to the study of the linguistic relations of English and Scandinavian by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

He would rush from his desk to the printer's or race away in search of names, clad in his green hunting-jacket with its copper buttons of foxes' heads, black and gray checked trousers, pleated at the waist, and held down by straps passing under the huge high-quartered shoes, tied or untied as might happen, a red silk kerchief cord-like about his neck, his hat, shaggy and faded, crushed over his eyes—altogether a grotesque creature!
— from The Stones of Paris in History and Letters, Volume 2 (of 2) by Benjamin Ellis Martin

—The habit of using snuff in any manner—smoking—sipping intoxicating liquors—taking opium—or indulging in any improper and disagreeable habit of actions or expressions, should be carefully avoided by those who hold the responsible and important station of nurses of the sick.
— from Mrs. Hale's Receipts for the Million Containing Four Thousand Five Hundred and Forty-five Receipts, Facts, Directions, etc. in the Useful, Ornamental, and Domestic Arts by Sarah Josepha Buell Hale

But while her eyes roved around in search of novel and amusing sights—while she nodded to one acquaintance, and smiled at another—what words are those which ring down into her soul?
— from May Brooke by Anna Hanson Dorsey

Dat nigger would run away in spite of nothin' they could do.
— from Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume I, Alabama Narratives by United States. Work Projects Administration