The sudden and unexpected growth had sunk the Boss ear-deep in detail drudgery, and so he decided to surround himself with men who could balance some of the burden that rested upon his convex shoulders and caused forehead-furrows like a first-line trench.
— from Dumbells of Business by Louis Custer Martin Reed

He wipes away the blinding tears, and with an angel smile, and upward glance, he says, “ Though he slay me, yet will I trust in Him. ”
— from Fern Leaves from Fanny's Port-folio. Second Series by Fanny Fern

She was undoubtedly a sweet and unselfish girl, Hartwell said; and he feared that Captain Snowdon thought that she was making too great a fuss in referring to the risks which he, Wesley, had run to bring her happiness.
— from The Love That Prevailed by Frank Frankfort Moore

He was innately conservative to the backbone, though since an ungrateful Government had slighted him, he had become an ardent Canadian, and in all political questions aggressively democratic.
— from Winston of the Prairie by Harold Bindloss