ts and bateaux; bright sunshine overhead, the sound of military music in their ears, flags waving, men cheering and shouting--what expedition could have started under happier and more joyous auspices?
— from French and English: A Story of the Struggle in America by Evelyn Everett-Green

This was in accommodation to the rude and uncultivated state of most minds in those early days.
— from The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Edward Hitchcock

I had doomed myself to stand side by side, to work hand in hand with guilt, to feel hourly the dread lest in some moment of frenzy engendered by the dumb anguish within me I might betray the secret whose rust was eating into my soul, and shriek out my misery in the ears of all men.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 64, February, 1863 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

For the Belgian soldiers no longer sang, or made merry in the evening.
— from Golden Lads by Arthur Gleason

He had a dim presentiment that such a state of mind must in the end lead to insanity, if it were not already itself a kind of insanity.
— from Through Night to Light: A Novel by Friedrich Spielhagen

Nature is not always severe, nor the spirit of man melancholy, in the East.
— from The Holy Land by John Kelman

One of them ridicules my walk, and my laugh: another makes of my features a subject of accusation: to another the simplicity of my manners is the evil thing: and I have lived three years in the company of such men!"
— from The Makers of Modern Rome, in Four Books by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

The opponents of evolution, who declare that this gradual development of the human form from lower animal forms, and ultimately from a unicellular organism, is an incredible miracle, forget that the same miracle takes place within the space of mine months in the embryonic development of every human being.
— from The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 by Ernst Haeckel