Then a pedigree is nicely grown on a summer day, and this fine young Jersey adventurer is found to be a green branch from the old root; and there’s a great blare of trumpets, and the States of the duchy are called together to make this English officer a prince—and that’s the Thousand and One Nights in Arabia, Ma’m’selle Carterette.’
— from The Battle of the Strong: A Romance of Two Kingdoms — Complete by Gilbert Parker

Immediately the Parachute was cut away, the balloon ascended with frightful velocity, owing to the ascending power it necessarily gained by being freed from a weight of nearly 500 pounds; and had it not been that its occupants applied their mouths to the air-bags previously provided, they must have been suffocated by the escaping gas.
— from Umbrellas and Their History by William Sangster

[85] The full significance of this annulling power is not generally understood.
— from The Spirit of American Government A Study Of The Constitution: Its Origin, Influence And Relation To Democracy by J. Allen (James Allen) Smith

Which, when it comes to actual practice, is not good enough.” “Oh no.
— from Women in Love by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

According to a local Bráhman account the original image of the Sun was of wood and is still preserved in Lakshmí’s temple at Pátan in North Gujarát.
— from History of Gujarát Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, Volume I, Part I. by James M. Campbell

"It is a problem ," he wrote, with a splutter of his pen, charging his grievance full tilt with his most effective term; "it is, we conscientiously believe, one of the great problems of this problem-haunted and problem-fighting age—one of the wrongs that it is the mission of the reforming Modern Spirit to set right—though the subject is so inextricably entangled and wrapped up in its amusing associations that at present its naked gravity is only recognised by the philosophic few.
— from The Three Miss Kings: An Australian Story by Ada Cambridge

The resemblance of the dotterel's egg to a pebble is no greater than the resemblance between many eggs laid in nests and pebbles.
— from Field and Hedgerow: Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies by Richard Jefferies

He had been flogged in his time before, and not without reason, and had taken a pride in not giving in, or crying out for pain; and the ancient habit acquired in a worse cause, came to his help.
— from Under the Storm by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

Then a pedigree is nicely grown on a summer day, and this fine young Jersey adventurer is found to be a green branch from the old root; and there's a great blare of trumpets, and the States of the duchy are called together to make this English officer a prince—and that's the Thousand and One Nights in Arabia, Ma'm'selle Carterette.'"
— from The Battle of the Strong: A Romance of Two Kingdoms — Volume 4 by Gilbert Parker