Then, at the end, we introduce the program guest, some history expert, a real name, and he tells how he thinks history would have been changed if it had happened this way."
— from Crossroads of Destiny by H. Beam Piper

She continually wiped her eyes with the back of her hand, and rather than snuffle, heroically endured a running nose.
— from If You Touch Them They Vanish by Gouverneur Morris

When this current set in, Rowland straightway turned his back or stopped his ears, and Roderick now witnessed these movements with perfect indifference.
— from Roderick Hudson by Henry James

She had established a rich new circuit, a new current of passional electric energy, between the two of them, released from the darkest poles of the body and established in perfect circuit.
— from Women in Love by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

But if these things are so, how evidently against reason, nature, and every thing human and divine, must they act, who not only force men into slavery , against their own consent ; but treat them altogether as brutes , and make the natural liberty of man an article of publick commerce!
— from An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Particularly the African Translated from a Latin Dissertation, Which Was Honoured with the First Prize in the University of Cambridge, for the Year 1785, with Additions by Thomas Clarkson