If under such circumstances we can say that this unit is an outcome natural to the character of mankind, and even if we say, perhaps, that we might have behaved similarly under like circumstances, if we really cannot find something absolutely evil in the deed, the criminal quality of it is throughout reduced.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

Served under Lord Cathcart, in North Germany, in 1805, and in the Pa., and was made bt. maj.
— from The Waterloo Roll Call With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes by Charles Dalton

These are the ordinary practices; yet in the said Lucian, Melissa methinks had a trick beyond all this; for when her suitor came coldly on, to stir him up, she writ one of his co-rival's names and her own in a paper, Melissa amat Hermotimum, Hermotimus Mellissam , causing it to be stuck upon a post, for all gazers to behold, and lost it in the way where he used to walk; which when the silly novice perceived, statim ut legit credidit , instantly apprehended it was so, came raving to me, &c. [5133] and so when I was in despair of his love, four months after I recovered him again.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

"She's staying with me at the Annonciata," Mousie's friend explained; "a charming creature, so uncommon, lately come into a tremendous lot of money, I believe, through some relative in America she nursed till the end.
— from The Guests Of Hercules by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

I lay still for a few seconds, but as the tugging continued, I concluded the game was up and I stood up, literally covered in sackcloth and ashes.
— from The Escaping Club by A. J. (Alfred John) Evans

This fort is situated upon Lympia Creek, in Wild Rose Pass, a most lovely cañon , through the Sierra Diablo .
— from The Young Trail Hunters Or, the Wild Riders of the Plains. The Veritable Adventures of Hal Hyde and Ned Brown, on Their Journey Across the Great Plains of the South-West by Samuel Woodworth Cozzens

The gallantry shown by both sides upon Lake Champlain in 1776 is evident from the foregoing narrative.
— from The Major Operations of the Navies in the War of American Independence by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

The filters were numbered and laid aside, and ultimately dried in the sunshine, under like circumstances, in two parcels, one embracing the experiments from May 22 to July 15, the other from July 17 to August 13.
— from Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

All three were buried in a chapel of the Church of St. Peter at Heidelberg, at the expense of a French professor in the University, one Guillaume Rascalon; where the following inscription, recently restored, M. Bonnet says, may yet be read:— "Deo Inmortali Sacrum et virtuti ac memoriæ Olympiæ Moratæ, Fulvii Morati Mantuani viri doctissimi, filiæ, Andreæ Grünthleri medici conjugis; lectissimæ feminæ, cujus ingenium ac singularis utriusque linguæ cognitio, in moribus autem probitas, summumque pietatis studium, supra communem modum semper existimata sunt.
— from A Decade of Italian Women, vol. 2 (of 2) by Thomas Adolphus Trollope

As clear as crystal, yet as dark as the brown cairn-gorm, it came pouring down among the broken rocks with a rapidity and force which showed what must be its fury when swollen by a storm among the mountains, here breaking into wreaths of rippling foam where some unseen ledge chafed its current, there roaring and surging white as December’s snow among the great round-headed rocks, and there again wheeling in sullen eddies, dark and deceitful, round and round some deep rock-brimmed basin.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXV, No. 1, July 1849 by Various

A bridge of stone that spanned the abyss; a roadway, fifty feet wide, which reached into some unknown land, connecting it with the desolate country in which our friends had been wandering.
— from Lost on the Moon; Or, in Quest of the Field of Diamonds by Roy Rockwood

This meant the gathering up in the country districts of thousands of helpless old men, women, and children, and driving them to the towns and forts, where they were shut up like cattle in large enclosures, surrounded by a deep ditch and a barbed wire fence.
— from The Story of American History for Elementary Schools by Albert F. (Albert Franklin) Blaisdell

The brains also are shaken up like coppers in a money-box.
— from The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table by Oliver Wendell Holmes