No perceptible emotion could be discovered in the Mohicans during this critical moment, their rigid features expressing neither hope nor alarm; but the scout again turned his head, and, laughing in his own silent manner, he said to Heyward: “The knaves love to hear the sounds of their pieces; but the eye is not to be found among the Mingoes that can calculate a true range in a dancing canoe!
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

As long as the speed of the engine is normal, the water escapes from the cylinder as fast as it is pumped in, and no movement of the piston results; but when the screw begins to race, the pump overcomes the leak, and the piston is driven out, causing a throttling of the steam supply.
— from How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Archibald Williams

But when, as frequently happens, there is an insurrection, which has occurred even in our own times, the event is not the same to all, but different to different people.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

A man who had made up his mind to undertake a voyage into the Interior of the Earth, is not the man to haggle over a few miserable rix-dollars.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

I saw mankind housed in splendid shelters, gloriously clothed, and as yet I had found them engaged in no toil.
— from The Time Machine by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Even when a strong accession of force by the enemy is not to be feared, the conqueror finds in the above circumstances a powerful check to the vivacity of his pursuit.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

Of the extremities of the Pharos, the eastern is nearest to the continent and to the promontory in that direction, called Lochias, which is the cause of the entrance to the port being narrow.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

Kneeling against many of the pillars there were persons in prayer, and I stepped softly, fearing lest my tread on the marble pavement should disturb them,—a needless precaution, however, for nobody seems to expect it, nor to be disturbed by the lack of it.
— from Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Volume 1. by Nathaniel Hawthorne

“I have all the evidence I need to convict you of being a ringleader of the Hoods.”
— from The Clock Strikes Thirteen by Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt

The best thing, Elly, is not to think of setting up house yet.
— from Old People and the Things That Pass by Louis Couperus

To be King of the East is not to the purpose, Jurgen, when one must submit to such vexations.'
— from Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice by James Branch Cabell

as that enemy is not to be conquered by arms, I will conquer him by policy; let some blame me if they like, but let not my oath be made void.”
— from The Kathá Sarit Ságara; or, Ocean of the Streams of Story by active 11th century Somadeva Bhatta

Let no subject ever be coerced to enter it, nor to remain one hour longer than while his adoring loyalty consents.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus by G. A. (George Alexander) Chadwick

And although their explanation is not true (but an invention of their tagiya — corrupted minds), it shows to what straits 476 they were put to explain [205] away the succession of Azal, the legitimacy of which Azal still, in his ripe old age, maintains.
— from Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Ullah and Abdul Baha by Samuel Graham Wilson

In time past it was sors pro sorte —that is, the principal only for the principal; but now, beside that which is above the principal properly called Usura , we challenge Foenus —that is, commodity of soil and fruits of the earth, if not the ground itself.
— from Elizabethan England From 'A Description of England,' by William Harrison by William Harrison

So their care is always to preserve intact what they happen to have, to exceed in nothing, to study cleanliness, order, decency, sobriety, and a steady temper, and they fence all this round and preserve it in the only way it can be preserved, to wit, with conventions, and they are quite right.
— from The Path to Rome by Hilaire Belloc

The election in November turns on the single and simple question, Whether we shall consent to the indefinite multiplication of them; and the only party which stands plainly and unequivocally pledged against such a policy, nay, which is not either openly or impliedly in favor of it;—is the Republican party.”
— from James Russell Lowell, A Biography; vol 2/2 by Horace Elisha Scudder