I do not think it proper or necessary, at this time, to refer to the causes which have reduced us to this extremity; nor is it now a matter of material consequence to us how such results were brought about.
— from Notes of a Private by John Milton Hubbard

XI THE WORKING WOMAN AND MARRIAGE It is a lamentable fact that the wholesome and normal tendency towards organization which is now increasingly noticeable among working-women has so far remained unrelated to that equally normal and far more deeply rooted and universal tendency towards marriage.
— from The Trade Union Woman by Alice Henry

I can stand on the edge of cliffs of a thousand feet or so and look down, but I can never bring myself right up to the edge nor crane over to look to the very bottom.
— from An Englishman Looks at the World Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

As a matter of fact, at this time a railway truck was run up to the edge nightly propelled by forty of our men, bringing filled sandbags for making a barricade across the line, thus affording the relieving party cover when getting out of trench.
— from A Soldier's Sketches Under Fire by Harold Harvey

It was this unparalleled series of disasters which made the existing Lancastrian rule unbearable to the English nation.
— from Warwick, the Kingmaker by Charles Oman

What he thought of the figure before him, with its riotous curly black hair, brilliant eyes, pale dark cheeks, dusty pinafore, a singular smudge upon the forehead, and sleeves rolled up to the elbows, nobody would have known from his manner, which instantly expressed a friendly concern.
— from The Second Violin by Grace S. (Grace Smith) Richmond

This never failed her right up to the end, nor was it broken down by her long illness or by the fear of death, and this has made us miss her all the more severely and made our sorrow all the heavier to bear.
— from The Letters of the Younger Pliny, First Series — Volume 1 by the Younger Pliny