The underlying rationalistic explanation shows through!
— from The Quest of the Historical Jesus A Critical Study of its Progress from Reimarus to Wrede by Albert Schweitzer

The king of Zeyla acted with the utmost resolution, even shewing his son to the army, a boy of only ten years old, to stir up his men to fight valiantly against the Christians.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 06 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Robert Kerr

In [Pg 543] that unknown region, each step which he ventured might be the last.
— from The Underground World: A mirror of life below the surface by Thomas Wallace Knox

[763] Nothing could be easier than for an accuser to find matter for inculpation of Sokratês, by partial citations from his continual discourses, given without the context or explanations which had accompanied them; by bold invention, where even this partial basis was wanting; sometimes also by taking up real error, since no man who is continually talking, especially extempore, can always talk correctly.
— from History of Greece, Volume 08 (of 12) by George Grote

The underbrush rustled, ever so softly.
— from The Kindred of the Wild: A Book of Animal Life by Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir

Ung aultre tableau de la pourtraiture de l'empereur Maximilien, père de Madame, que Dieu pardoint, habillé d'une robbe de drapt d'or, fourré de martre, à ung bonnet noir sur son chief, pourtant le colier de la thoison d'or, tenant ung rolet en sa main dextre.
— from The First Governess of the Netherlands, Margaret of Austria by Eleanor E. Tremayne

In this unknown region each step that he ventured might be his last.
— from Les Misérables, v. 5/5: Jean Valjean by Victor Hugo