Rout the house out!” reiterated Pew, striking with his stick upon the road.
— from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

"Well, I'm not the first man who has had to hide out," Ronan parried, seeking to justify his obvious disguise.
— from The Raid of The Guerilla, and Other Stories by Mary Noailles Murfree

The hydrolysis of raffinose presents several interesting possibilities.
— from The Chemistry of Plant Life by Roscoe Wilfred Thatcher

Finally, the histories of religions, philosophy, science, the fine arts, and the industrial arts, show, it is said, development "through as unobtrusive changes as those which the mind of a child passes on its way to maturity."
— from Creation or Evolution? A Philosophical Inquiry by George Ticknor Curtis

Last year, by an overwhelming bipartisan margin, the House of Representatives passed sweeping IRS reforms.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

These, and most of the officials, have generally their families with them in Siberia; and although they never lose their hold of Russia, practically Siberia is their home.
— from The Siberian Overland Route from Peking to Petersburg, Through the Deserts and Steppes of Mongolia, Tartary, &c. by Alexander Michie

From this branch of good-for-nothing knowledge, his studies, by an easy transition, extended to the histories of robbers, pirates, smugglers, and the whole race of Irish rogues and rapparees.
— from Oliver Goldsmith: A Biography by Washington Irving

In a sense that hour with Mary Ballard in the screened space by the fire was the hour of Roger Poole's spiritual awakening.
— from Contrary Mary by Temple Bailey

Her features were extremely small and delicate, and her eyes had an anxious look, as if she were in the habit of receiving periodical shocks of grief, and were wondering what shape the next one would take.
— from Freaks on the Fells: Three Months' Rustication by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

With sufficient evidence they would then make a quiet crusade in the hope of rousing public spirit to the extent of forcing in a grand jury that could not be bought by the Boss.
— from Ancestors: A Novel by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton