These would perhaps not have {287} been noticed if the other ones had not been there to remind the once powerful Czar of All the Russias that he was at the mercy of the subjects whose rights he had not respected and whose cries for freedom he had quenched in blood.
— from Confessions of the Czarina by Radziwill, Catherine, Princess

big, strong-domed nest or deep burrow, all the eggs are hatched and all the young reared, the thinning, out process commencing only after the brood has been led forth into a world beset with perils.
— from The Naturalist in La Plata by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

He certainly was an enthusiast in his sentiments of this equilibrium; and fully convinced that he himself, of all the potentates in Christendom, was the only prince capable of adjusting the balance.
— from The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. Continued from the Reign of William and Mary to the Death of George II. by T. (Tobias) Smollett

In the spring of 1889 Richard as the correspondent of the Philadelphia Telegraph, accompanied a team of Philadelphia cricketers on a tour of Ireland and England, but as it was necessary for him to spend most of his time reporting the matches played in small university towns, he saw only enough of London to give him a great longing to return as soon as the chance offered.
— from Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis by Richard Harding Davis

As we looked back toward the open pastoral country of Ambaca, the broad green gently undulating plains seemed in a hollow surrounded on all sides by rugged mountains, and as we went westward we were entering upon quite a wild-looking mountainous district, called Golungo Alto.
— from Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa by David Livingstone

The only protesting church of a thoroughly sensible evangelical sort was that of the Waldensians.
— from Church History, Volume 2 (of 3) by J. H. (Johann Heinrich) Kurtz

Why then should our Great President risk his precious person and become a target of public criticism; or "abandon the rock of peace in search of the tiger's tail"; or discourage the loyalty of faithful ones and encourage the sinister ambitions of the unscrupulous? Ch'i-chao sincerely hopes that the Great President will devote himself to the establishment of a new era which shall be an inspiration to heroism and thus escape the fate of those who are stigmatized in our annals with the name of Traitor.
— from The Fight for the Republic in China by B. L. (Bertram Lenox) Putnam Weale

We are struck dumb by finding Malthus's theory of population come out as the sum and end of this Christian Romanticism.
— from Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature - 3. The Reaction in France by Georg Brandes

In the Fallopian tubes and the ovaries pathological changes occur as the result of uterine fibroids.
— from A Text-book of Diseases of Women by Charles B. (Charles Bingham) Penrose

All the kraals at Lebombo were crowded, and there were thousands of people camped out around the village.
— from Adventures in Swaziland: The Story of a South African Boer by Owen Rowe O'Neil