Yes, he was conscious of the shadow, of regrets, of something else that was nameless and indefinable,—a shadow.
— from The Hidden Places by Bertrand W. Sinclair

" There are six other retractions of similar enormities, when he concludes: "These were my sins in my childhood, as to which, conscience troubled me for a great while before they were overcome."
— from The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author by Walter Scott

It is at most a symbol, a sign, or representation of something, entirely absent and in no way connected with it.
— from The Way of Salvation in the Lutheran Church by G. H. (George Henry) Gerberding

Here did not appear to be any thing like superiority of rank or subordination established among them; nor could it be remarked, that three old men who were in the party, received any peculiar marks of esteem from the rest.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13 by Robert Kerr

Hume, Benjamin Franklin, Horace Walpole, and other men as well qualified to judge, and as little likely to fall under the spell of religions or sentimental enthusiasm, have borne willing testimony to the irresistible power of a sermon from Whitefield.
— from A History of the Four Georges, Volume II by Justin McCarthy

The immense building erected and occupied by the World's Dispensary Medical Association as a Laboratory, wherein are manufactured our Dr. Pierce's Standard Family Medicines, as well as all the various Tinctures, Fluid Extracts and other pharmaceutical preparations used by the Staff of Physicians and Surgeons of the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute in their practice, is not inappropriately called the World's Dispensary , for within its walls is prepared a series of remedies of such exceeding merit that they have acquired world-wide fame, and are sold in vast quantities in nearly every civilized country.
— from The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand by Ray Vaughn Pierce

There was not a light in any of the houses on either side; and not a sound of revelry or sorrow escaped from the ill-closed casements.
— from The Mysteries of London, v. 1/4 by George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds

The order of the draft is shown along with the design; the order runs, 2 1, 3 2, 4 3, and so on, repeating on sixteen ends.
— from Cotton Weaving and Designing 6th Edition by John T. Taylor