The theory of rationality is the one at present accepted in political science.
— from The Jewish State by Theodor Herzl

The lock of hair that had escaped and curled loosely over her brow, the traces of tears yet scarcely dry, the flushed cheek, the look of sorrow, all fired some dormant train of recollection in the old man’s breast; and the face of his dead brother seemed present before him, with the very look it bore on some occasion of boyish grief, of which every minutest circumstance flashed upon his mind, with the distinctness of a scene of yesterday.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Edna had intended to be indifferent and as reserved as he when she met him; she had reached the determination by a laborious train of reasoning, incident to one of her despondent moods.
— from The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin

Now Titus his chamber adjoined that of Gisippus and one might go from the one room into the other; wherefore Gisippus, being in his chamber and having put out all the lights, betook himself stealthily to his friend and bade him go couch with his mistress.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

Whence it followed, that the Catholic principles daily gained strength, and all the Scots that dwelt in England either conformed to these, or returned into their own country.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

Under General Sultan, the OWI ran itself; the Outpost serviced the Theater.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

To this our reply is that, of all kinds of needlework, Plain Sewing needs to be most thoroughly learned, as being the foundation of all.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

Taking into account the obvious tendency which there would be in scribes to make the title πρὸς Κολοσσαεῖς or πρὸς Κολασσαεῖς conform to the opening ἐν Κολοσσαῖς or ἐν Κολασσαῖς, as shown in G, we seem to arrive at the conclusion that, while ἐν Κολοσσαῖς was indisputably the original reading in the opening, πρὸς Κολασσαεῖς was probably the earlier reading in the title.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

At the same time, the Moravian savages from the banks of the Ohio, rejoicing in the opportunity afforded by the contentions of the white men, suddenly burst upon the English western frontier, and massacred no less than 1000 of the scattered settlers.
— from The Conquest of Canada, Vol. 2 by George Warburton

She was not sure that there was a touch of rebuke in the old man’s mournful tones, but she felt that any sort of reproach would be justified.
— from Joan of Arc of the North Woods by Holman Day

Constantly as the name of France is in our mouth, comparatively few Englishmen understand the way in which France is governed;—that is, how far absolute despotism prevails, and how far the power of the one ruler is tempered, or, as it may be, hampered by the voices and influence of others.
— from North America — Volume 1 by Anthony Trollope

Jack hurled his rifle from him and tossed one revolver into the open.
— from The Boy Allies with Uncle Sam's Cruisers by Clair W. (Clair Wallace) Hayes

They have taken our rooms in the other wing for themselves.
— from Burton of the Flying Corps by Herbert Strang

The older research into the origin of the nutritive apparatus in the metazoa—especially its chief part, the alimentary or gastric canal—had led to the erroneous belief that in several groups of the metazoa it owed its origin to very different growth-processes, and that particularly in the higher vertebrates (the amniotes) it was a comparatively late product of evolution.
— from The Wonders of Life: A Popular Study of Biological Philosophy by Ernst Haeckel

3. Transverse section through part of the ovarian ridge, including the ovarian region of an almost ripe embryo of Scyllium canicula .
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 1 (of 4) Separate Memoirs by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour

The character of its industries is still determined largely by its natural resources of farm, forest, and mine, but the recent wars in the Orient, resulting in the opening of new markets, gave to the industries 123 of this section a great stimulus which had only begun to be felt at the time the twelfth census was taken.
— from The Quarterly of the Oregon Historical Society, Vol. IV March, 1903-December, 1903 by Oregon Historical Society