The Irish army, during the same period, accepting the highest estimate, suffered a diminution of 2,300 men, of whom 500 were slain, and 566 captured in the last surprise and assault.
— from The battle-fields of Ireland, from 1688 to 1691 including Limerick and Athlone, Aughrim and the Boyne. Being an outline history of the Jacobite war in Ireland, and the causes which led to it by Boyle, John, active 1867

The so-called philosophers of our time, whether psychologists or ideologists, have, like their Greek predecessors, always aimed at a complete concentration of all social powers; and they have even spread this delusion among the students of special sciences.
— from A General View of Positivism Or, Summary exposition of the System of Thought and Life by Auguste Comte

Here the speaker paused, as though he expected some comment from the listeners regarding the seeming miracle.
— from The Fiery Totem A Tale of Adventure in the Canadian North-West by C. F. Argyll Saxby