This foreign admixture will lead us to the discussion of the different kinds of grants: a difference, perhaps, more nominal than real, but exhibiting a distinction so wide as to imply grants resumable and irresumable.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

To such efforts the Indian girl responds almost incredibly.
— from Lighted to Lighten: the Hope of India A Study of Conditions among Women in India by Alice B. (Alice Boucher) Van Doren

A page boy knocked at the door and came in holding out on a salver a card for Mr. Ruggles, and at the interruption Galorey rose and invited Ruggles to go out with him that night to Osdene.
— from The Girl From His Town by Marie Van Vorst

As age darkens the wood, the interior grows rich, and it is discovered that the effect of the seasoning of the wood or of the musical vibrations steadily improves the acoustic properties, having the same effect upon the sonorousness of the wood that long use has upon a good violin.
— from Studies in the South and West, with Comments on Canada by Charles Dudley Warner

And so the boat was floundering about in the gale till it got righted, and it was Mr. Langenau's presence of mind that saved him and the boat, for he never let go the rudder, and controlled her as far as he could, though he did not know where he was going, the blackness was so great, and the flashes did not show him the shore; and he was like one placed in the midst of a frightful sea wakened out of a dream, owing to the blow and the unconsciousness which followed.
— from Richard Vandermarck: A Novel by Miriam Coles Harris

Many, for example, are of opinion that the existing tendency to introduce government regulations and interferences into all departments is at least greatly exaggerated, and [Pg 158] that it would be far better if a larger sphere were left to individual action and free contract.
— from The Map of Life Conduct and Character by William Edward Hartpole Lecky

But then I got religion and I couldn't do it.
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 1 by United States. Work Projects Administration

The world has been waiting for just the kind of knowledge regarding Russia’s new Arctic port that Mr Graham gives us.” + Nation 104:430 Ap 12 ‘17 1550w “Discount the politics and the war prophecies, and much that is genuinely revelatory and illuminating does emerge. ...
— from The Book Review Digest, Volume 13, 1917 Thirteenth Annual Cumulation Reviews of 1917 Books by Various

In the region of the brain the medullary cord is so thick that it gives rise, as in Teleostei, to a projection of the whole body of the embryo towards the yolk.
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 3 (of 4) A Treatise on Comparative Embryology: Vertebrata by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour