He groans out that it is too late, that he must "sink along with the whole of the bungled social system"—he is not the first, nor the last man, who has attempted to shift upon society his individual sins.
— from Iconoclasts: A Book of Dramatists Ibsen, Strindberg, Becque, Hauptmann, Sudermann, Hervieu, Gorky, Duse and D'Annunzio, Maeterlinck and Bernard Shaw by James Huneker

[381] and while thus shut up, salt held in solution is deposited, and qualities analogous to those of marine bottoms are produced, purged by cleansing processes of all products offensive to the bivalves.
— from The Ocean World: Being a Description of the Sea and Its Living Inhabitants. by Louis Figuier

Lost, in his disappointment, even to shame for the wretched pun, he straightened up, surveying his immediate surroundings.
— from In Old Kentucky by Charles Turner Dazey

When Luff quitted the old shepherd upon Sudbourn Heath, in search of Laud, he was prepared to find him at the Compasses at Orford, and there he did find him, and he pretended to be glad to see him, and to be very friendly with him.
— from The History of Margaret Catchpole, a Suffolk Girl by Richard Cobbold

They grew dumb in the midst of their conversation when the count entered, and stood up, saluting him in stiff and military style.
— from The Youth of the Great Elector by L. (Luise) Mühlbach