I wonder if the judges of the land feel as I do now when they put on the black cap and pass sentence of death upon some poor, shivering wretch, who has never done them any wrong.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

But those men and women who have dwelt all their lives beneath a sky of leaden gray, in an horizonless space of desolate, unbroken steppe; whose children and children's children must come into a heritage even heavier than their own, handed down from those first, hunted creatures who began the age-long battle with ice and snow and frozen hurricanes—these, alas!
— from The Genius by Margaret Horton Potter

Superintendent of Documents, U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington 25, D. C. 1961, 513 pages, $1.50.
— from Atoms in Agriculture: Applications of Nuclear Science to Agriculture (Revised) by Thomas S. Osborne

" "Like the furniture?" said I. She did not answer this with words, but I felt her scrutinizing look directed full upon me, I knew I was in a most uncharitable and provoking mood, but I was not responsible, heaven knows, for what I said or did under such maddening influences.
— from The Doctor's Daughter by Vera

Here and there, on separate slips, were great outlying tracts of light, contributed by Ralph, to be inserted, and sketches of dark, undeveloped stuff, sprung from Waddington, to be inserted too.
— from Mr. Waddington of Wyck by May Sinclair