Efforts to displace the preceptor resulted only in giving him the title, as well as the power, of minister in 1726.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

He understood quite plainly why Nurse Baker did not want him to go near to his mother, and the reason of it gave him this pang, not of nervousness but of black horror, that the sane and the sensitive must always feel when they are brought intimately in contact with some blind derangement of instinct in those most nearly allied to them.
— from Michael by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

I didn't know about these photographs, but when I came into the room once in general he tried to make it so that I would spend less time in that room.
— from Warren Commission (01 of 26): Hearings Vol. I (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

Peremptorily dismissing the lad who had been sent to act as a guide, the officers retraced their steps until a ridge of intervening ground hid them from the village.
— from The Fight for Constantinople: A Story of the Gallipoli Peninsula by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

—Although the main part of the Panjáb plain is covered by a mantle of comparatively recent alluvium, the provinces described in this book display a more complete record of Indian geological history than any other similar area in the country.
— from The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir by Douie, James McCrone, Sir

Priscilla’s repetition of it goaded him to a reply which he immediately afterwards felt to be unworthy.
— from Priscilla's Spies by George A. Birmingham