Then, assisted by Bicarat, the only one left standing, they bore Jussac, Cahusac, and one of Aramis’s adversaries who was only wounded, under the porch of the convent.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

The dilatory process of convening the legislature, or one of its branches, for the purpose of obtaining its sanction to the measure, would frequently be the occasion of letting slip the golden opportunity.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

Richard, answering what he saw in Ada's compassionate eyes, took the opportunity of laying some money, softly and unobserved, on the chimney-piece.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

These were of course regarded with peculiar jealousy by the older or loyalist settlers from the same country.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

In spite of the objections of Leonhardi, Strehlow maintains his affirmations on this point (see Strehlow, III, p. xi).
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

The Sault Sainte Marie locks and canals, at the outlet of Lake Superior, have already been described.
— from America, Volume 4 (of 6) by Joel Cook

Tables relating to the operation of lathes, screw machines, milling machines, etc.
— from Metal Spinning by C. Tuells

(34) In this relation we see one of the closest connections between comparative zoology and comparative philology; and here the theory of development assigns to the latter the task of following the origin of language step by step.
— from The History of Creation, Vol. 2 (of 2) Or the Development of the Earth and its Inhabitants by the Action of Natural Causes by Ernst Haeckel

Chapter XXI Conclusion Our tale is now done, and it only remains to us to collect the scattered threads of our little story, and to tie them into a seemly knot.
— from The Warden by Anthony Trollope