Then, as they turned backwards along the road, El Sarria told Rollo all his tale, and the young Scot found himself, for the first time, deep among the crude mother-stuff of life and passion.
— from The Firebrand by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

The stone swung outwards. Mayne, gripping the rough edge, sought to retain a tenacious hold.
— from The Scouts of Seal Island by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

In the same case it was held that a rule requiring every scholar to read a particular version of the Bible, though it may be against the conscience of some to do so, does not violate the letter or spirit of the constitution.
— from The Clergyman's Hand-book of Law: The Law of Church and Grave by Charles Martin Scanlan

A single event, a thousand times weightier to the world, each time it comes, than if with one fell stroke all the kingdoms of the globe became republics and all the republics empires, so to remain a thousand years.
— from It Is Never Too Late to Mend by Charles Reade

[198] Figure 174.—Top View of the Hay-Track Roof Extension, showing the ridgeboard and supporting jack-rafters.
— from Farm Mechanics: Machinery and Its Use to Save Hand Labor on the Farm. by Herbert A. Shearer