Such considerations, however, are really foreign to our subject.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

At her suppressed cry the Maccabee sprang forward, but she caught herself and ran faster.
— from The City of Delight: A Love Drama of the Siege and Fall of Jerusalem by Elizabeth Miller

Some cried, Hurrah! and ran for a while by the side of the carriage, with heads turned towards Klaus Heinrich.
— from Royal Highness by Thomas Mann

"It's all right, I suppose, since Conniston has a rich father," Roger admitted, with a sigh.
— from Under Handicap A Novel by Jackson Gregory

The “Shell” Company has a record for successful industrial expansion which is achieved by few companies in the world of commerce: its capital is now £15,000,000, and in dividends it has distributed over 300 per cent.
— from Petroleum by Albert Lidgett

The fear psychosis, based on an abnormally developed fear instinct which formed the main structure of her symptom complex, had a real foundation in the psycho-physiological condition of her organism.
— from Nervous Ills, Their Cause and Cure by Boris Sidis

"I wish to know what the Yellow Domino has done that you or any one should consider him as responsible for the tragedy that has here taken place," I steadily replied.
— from X Y Z: A Detective Story by Anna Katharine Green

The Knights Templars, whose rules, like those of the Hospitallers, enjoined humility and poverty, soon became the proudest and wealthiest order in Christendom; and while the Knights of St. John remained during several centuries honoured and respected for acts of benevolence, the Templars became hated and feared for their vices and their cruelty.
— from Cassell's History of England, Vol. 1 (of 8) From the Roman Invasion to the Wars of the Roses by Anonymous

No such character has any reason for existing.
— from Is The Bible Worth Reading, and Other Essays by L. K. (Lemuel Kelley) Washburn