They pushed through a close tangle of reeds, broad fronds, and young trees, and at first it was toilsome going, but very speedily the trees became larger and the ground beneath them opened out.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

These small crowds experience a new sentiment, unknown to anonymous crowds, that of responsibility which may at times give to their actions a different orientation.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

There are cold spots up and down Wessex in autumn and winter weather; but the coldest of all when a north or east wind is blowing is the crest of the down by the Brown House, where the road to Alfredston crosses the old Ridgeway.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

SEE Train, Arthur C. TRAUTZ, OTTO R. Leicht und neu.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1961 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

The general characters of these appendages have been dealt with on a former page (p. 200 ), where they are compared to, or rather contrasted with, the horns of the Bovidae.
— from Mammalia by Frank E. (Frank Evers) Beddard

"Better let things alone," cautioned the older Racer lad.
— from Frank and Andy Afloat Or, The Cave on the Island by Vance Barnum

While I was waiting my anger gradually cooled and I began to see that Lalage was perfectly right in saying that I should suffer most if the Archdeacon came to our rescue.
— from Lalage's Lovers by George A. Birmingham

A race of men that had come to the coasts of America not in royal vessels and clad in steel to plant standards with the sign of Redemption, but locked up in the stench of a closed hold, the body naked and in chains, to irrigate with their sweat and blood the land of slavery, rose in defence of the natural laws, demolished the banner at the sight of which the most powerful nations of Europe had trembled, and conquered the outraged rights of humanity.
— from The History of Cuba, vol. 2 by Willis Fletcher Johnson

The least that any could think of returning was the usual price of the salt.
— from The Covenant of Salt As Based on the Significance and Symbolism of Salt in Primitive Thought by H. Clay (Henry Clay) Trumbull

176 28 Ventral view of the cranium, and lateral view of the cranium and mandible of Siphonops annulatus 178 29 Visceral arches of Amphibia: A, Molge cristata ; B, Rana temporaria , adult; C, Tadpole of Rana ; D, Siredon pisciformis 181 30 Shoulder-girdle and sternum of an adult male Common Frog ( Rana temporaria ), and of an adult female Docidophryne gigantea 183 31 A, Right antibrachium and manus of a larval Salamander ( Salamandra maculosa ); B, Right tarsus and adjoining bones of Molge sp. 186 32 Lateral and dorsal views of the skull of an Ichthyosaurus 196 33 Lateral view and longitudinal section of the skull of a Lizard ( Varanus varius ) 201 34 Lateral view of the shoulder-girdle of a Lizard ( Varanus ) 202 35 Restored skeleton of Ceratosaurus nasicornis 206 36 Dorsal and ventral views of the carapace of a Loggerhead Turtle ( Thalassochelys caretta ) 216 37 Plastron of a Green Turtle ( Chelone midas )
— from The Vertebrate Skeleton by Sidney H. (Sidney Hugh) Reynolds

On the first point I am afraid there can be no better reason assigned than the conscious pride of superiority, which induces the human being in all cases to enjoy and practise every means of employing an influence over his fellow-mortals; to which we may safely add that general love of tormenting, as common to our race as to that noble mimick of humanity, the monkey.
— from Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft by Walter Scott