She had even risen earlier than usual in the execution of her purpose.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

He saw his enemy rather exposed at a point in front of Richmond, quickly got some troops in position, and made a dash at them in [259] great style.
— from Recollections of a Confederate Staff Officer by G. Moxley (Gilbert Moxley) Sorrel

The consequent greatly increased height of surface would, of itself, present an insuperable bar to exploration, so that no means remain of ascertaining if an extensive lacustrine settlement had ever really existed here of old.
— from The Lake Dwellings of Ireland Or ancient lacustrine habitations of Erin, commonly called crannogs. by W. G. (William Gregory) Wood-Martin

Alfred read this twice over, and felt a contemptuous repugnance towards the writer, a cashiered servant, who offered to tell the truth out of spite, having easily resisted every worthy motive.
— from Hard Cash by Charles Reade

She had even read enough to be able to tell Ni-ha-be a good deal about a camel.
— from The Talking Leaves: An Indian Story by William O. Stoddard

But that sight Stephen, his eyes rapt elsewhere, did not see.
— from The Epic of Saul by William Cleaver Wilkinson

Heretofore the State had encouraged railroad enterprise by exemption from taxation and before the war had even gone so far as to levy special railroad taxes in the several counties in payment of stock subscriptions to these enterprises.
— from Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society, Volume 02 (of 14), 1899 by Mississippi Historical Society

It reviled her for the belief she had propounded, but in this century she never renounced that belief, but thundered back to the pulpit and to the newspapers that the world does move and the time will come when women shall be free; the time will come when they shall have every right, every privilege, every liberty which any man enjoys....
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper