A few canoes were seen up the reach in full flight.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

Admitting the rule, (and this Le Moniteur does not deny, insisting merely upon its exceptions,) the argument of L’Etoile is suffered to remain in full force; for this argument does not pretend to involve more than a question of the probability of the body having risen to the surface in less than three days; and this probability will be in favor of L’Etoile’s position until the instances so childishly adduced shall be sufficient in number to establish an antagonistical rule.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

[Footnote 1: Ruisseaux is French for rivulets or “burns,” a translation of his name.
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

Under these disadvantages, the old loyalist's story required more revision to render it fit for the public eye than those of the series which have preceded it; nor should it be concealed that the sentiment and tone of the affair may have undergone some slight—or perchance more than slight—metamorphosis in its transmission to the reader through the medium of a thoroughgoing democrat.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

He may offer me ten or even twenty times what he has now done, nay—not though it be all that he has in the world, both now or ever shall have; he may promise me the wealth of Orchomenus or of Egyptian Thebes, which is the richest city in the whole world, for it has a hundred gates through each of which two hundred men may drive at once with their chariots and horses; he may offer me gifts as the sands of the sea or the dust of the plain in multitude, but even so he shall not move me till I have been revenged in full for the bitter wrong he has done me.
— from The Iliad by Homer

Yet the retrospect is far from painful or matter of regret.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

FREQUENT PERIODS OF INACTION IN WAR REMOVE IT FURTHER FROM THE ABSOLUTE, AND MAKE
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

[Pg 54] so unexampled as to make it at all incredible that they may some day be revived in full force.
— from On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

But at their rate of racing it fell far behind, just by the cab containing Gogol; and in faint hope of a clue or for some impulse unexplainable, he stopped his cab so as to pick it up.
— from The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

“I am surprised at your taking such a tone towards me,” I replied, coldly, “and were it not for the respect I feel for your misfortune, I should answer as bitterly as you deserve.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

But since you have deigned to confide in me, since when (happily for me, and with a generosity which no coquette could have been capable) you, in good time, repressed into friendship feelings that might else have ripened into those you are formed to inspire and disdain to return, you told me with your charming smile, 'Let no one speak to me of love who does not offer me his hand, and with it the means to supply tastes that I fear are terribly extravagant;'—since thus you allowed me to divine your natural objects, and upon that understanding our intimacy has been founded, you will pardon me for saying that the admiration you excite amongst the grands seigneurs I have named, only serves to defeat your own purpose, and scare away admirers less brilliant, but more in earnest.
— from The International Magazine, Volume 4, No. 5, December 1851 by Various

All her latent fear and distrust of her father had risen in full force.
— from A Girl of the People by L. T. Meade

It was a city obeying the articles of war, governed by despotic authority, and yet occasionally revealing, in full force, the irrepressible democratic element.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

"Below Fort Selkirk, the Yukon River is from five to six hundred yards broad, and maintains this width down to White River, a distance of ninety-six miles.
— from Klondyke Nuggets A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest by Joseph Ladue

It required twenty faithful days' work to clear one acre, and render it fit for the harrow and a crop of wheat.
— from Jacob Hamblin: A Narrative of His Personal Experience as a Frontiersman, Missionary to the Indians and Explorer, Disclosing Interpositions of Providence, Severe Privations, Perilous Situations and Remarkable Escapes Fifth Book of the Faith-Promoting Series, Designed for the Instruction and Encouragement of Young Latter-day Saints by Jacob Hamblin

Sophia's old worship, if the term be not too strong, returned in full force.
— from An Ambitious Woman: A Novel by Edgar Fawcett

But as they trudged along together through the dark his chagrin returned in full force.
— from The Ne'er-Do-Well by Rex Beach

To this list we must also add the horse-radish, the colza, the seed of which produces an oil well adapted for lighting purposes; the crysimum , or hedge-mustard, a popular remedy in France for coughs; the shepherd's purse, which the Mexicans use as a decoction for washing wounds; and the Lepidium piscidium , employed by the natives of Oceanica for intoxicating fish, so as to catch them more easily.
— from Adventures of a Young Naturalist by Lucien Biart