But when an attempt is made to fill in the detail, it issues sooner or later in confusion even with readers whose dramatic memory is unusually strong.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

To perceive the effect of these movements, we must first note that in the great rock-constructing realm of the seas organic life is constantly extracting from the water substances, such as lime, potash, soda, and a host of other substances necessary for the maintenance of high-grade organisms, depositing these materials in the growing strata.
— from Outlines of the Earth's History: A Popular Study in Physiography by Nathaniel Southgate Shaler

Even the situation of London is carefully explained.
— from The Life and Times of Alfred the Great Being the Ford lectures for 1901 by Charles Plummer

Although many years have passed since I was supported and invigorated by that "staff of life," I cannot even now think of it without a shudder of disgust!
— from Jack in the Forecastle; or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale by John Sherburne Sleeper

Sir Oswald looked in cautiously, evidently rather in dread of what he might find there; then his eyes fell upon something, and he said: "Pauline, are you there?"
— from Love Works Wonders: A Novel by Charlotte M. Brame

Certain erratic phenomena, of which the apparent slowing of the speed of light in certain earth areas was the most important, led a few scientists to speculate on the existence of some strange condition of space and time that would account for the observed phenomena.
— from The Lost Warship by Robert Moore Williams