Secondly, the individual branches of reproduction show deviations from social requirements amounting to all-round disparity and thus resulting in a general interruption of reproduction.
— from The Accumulation of Capital by Rosa Luxemburg

Speech, in short, turned its back on Resolution.
— from Punch, Or the London Charivari, Volume 102, April 16, 1892 by Various

I will go farther, and say that I believe our republic is, on the whole, in less danger from its poor men, who have got to stay in it and bring up their children, than from its rich men, who have always Paris and London to fall back upon.
— from Women and the Alphabet: A Series of Essays by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

So there is but one Religion, one appeal, and one God.
— from Letters from a Sûfî Teacher by Sharaf al-Din Ahmad ibn Yahya Maniri

She thought it best, or rather she yearned so much for counsel, that at night, over the fire in the stove, she told what Leonard had said, to which her host listened with the fatherly sympathy that had grown up towards her.
— from Grisly Grisell; Or, The Laidly Lady of Whitburn: A Tale of the Wars of the Roses by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

Indeed, one less resolutely bent on her object would not have encountered all the mortification and misery her anticipation pictured; but Polly fortified herself by the philosophy that said, “There is but one road to this goal; I must either take that one, or abandon the journey.”
— from Barrington. Volume 1 (of 2) by Charles James Lever

To windward was the long, monotonous bank, too obtusely piled to afford a screen, over which they could hear the canine crunching of pebbles by the sea without; on their right stretched the inner bay or roadstead, the distant riding-lights of the ships now dim and glimmering; behind them a faint spark here and there in the lower sky showed where the island rose; before there was nothing definite, and could be nothing, till they reached a precarious wood bridge, a mile further on, Henry the Eighth’s Castle being a little further still.
— from The Well-Beloved: A Sketch of a Temperament by Thomas Hardy

Not wishing to thrust myself more forward than need be in this narrative, I have scarcely thought it becoming or right to speak of my own adornments.
— from Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

The word translated “Comforter” means literally, “one called to another's side,” the idea being, one right at hand to take another's part.
— from The Person and Work of The Holy Spirit by R. A. (Reuben Archer) Torrey

He would have instantly gratified the feelings of his cruel and revengeful heart, and have shed the innocent blood of Rodolph's son to atone for the death of his friend, but that he feared to disappoint his Chief, who so earnestly desired to imbrue his own hands in the blood of the slayer.
— from The Pilgrims of New England A Tale of the Early American Settlers by Mrs. (Annie) Webb-Peploe