The rounded end may be left as it is.
— from Making Tin Can Toys by Edward Thatcher

While much criticism has been passed upon the Armenians by transient tourists, we may say truly of them, with the Rev. Edwin M. Bliss, late of Constantinople, that “those who know the race most widely and most intimately esteem it the most highly.”
— from The Golden Maiden, and other folk tales and fairy stories told in Armenia by A. K. Seklemian

All tend to replace early marriage by later marriage and parenthood to the obvious advantage of the race.
— from Radiant Motherhood: A Book for Those Who are Creating the Future by Marie Carmichael Stopes

It looked as if it was going to rain every minute, but luckily the wind kept it off.
— from Sunshine and Storm in Rhodesia Being a Narrative of Events in Matabeleland Both Before and During the Recent Native Insurrection Up to the Date of the Disbandment of the Bulawayo Field Force by Frederick Courteney Selous

Miss Anney from time to time raised her hand and shaded her head with it as if she desired to extinguish the lustre, but as the rays each moment became less warm, she finally discontinued the action.
— from Whirlpools: A Novel of Modern Poland by Henryk Sienkiewicz

It is manifest that the richest elements must be lost to any race that limits its own growth.
— from Stand Up, Ye Dead by Norman Maclean