We could understand him if the change in him were essentially a spiritual one similar to that in Máslova, but what Tolstoy has portrayed is rather a profound intellectual dissatisfaction, so deep and so far-reaching that it could only have been experienced by a man of the greatest intellectual and moral power, a man of genius, while there is nothing in Nekhlúdof's previous life to suggest that he was in any way out of the ordinary.
— from Tolstoy by Lilian Winstanley

They were barricaded in their log-walled strongholds, well guarded in anticipation of expected reprisals, and prepared in due season to come forth and prove by a dozen witnesses, or two dozen if so many should be needed to establish the alibi, that they had no hand in the massacre of the Dugmores.
— from The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

Thereupon the bonga went outside and brought in the rice and putting it down, said: “It is I who do it.
— from Folklore of the Santal Parganas by Cecil Henry Bompas

We are told that, after another adventure of this kind, this victim to alchymy, after ruining another patron, in despair swallowed poison.
— from Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Isaac Disraeli

And in point of strict fact, Barthorpe was both stunned by the news he had just received and plunged into deep speculation by a certain feature of it.
— from The Herapath Property by J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher

Moreover, all property being subject to taxation for the purpose of educating the children of both rich and poor, it deserved some representation for this valuable aid to government.
— from Daniel Webster by Henry Cabot Lodge