He had to eat with a knife and fork; he had to use napkin, cup, and plate; he had to learn his book, he had to go to church; he had to talk so properly that speech was become insipid in his mouth; whithersoever he turned, the bars and shackles of civilization shut him in and bound him hand and foot.
— from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

Under normal conditions a pair of coyotes is found with every den unless one parent has been killed.
— from Den Hunting as a Means of Coyote Control USDA Leaflet No. 132 by Harold Warren Dobyns

All sorts of things she does—picks up neglected children and puts them in safe homes, saves lost girls, nurses poor women in trouble, sews, knits, trots, begs, works for the poor day after day with no reward but the thanks of the needy, the love and honour of the rich who make Saint Matilda their almoner.
— from Jo's Boys by Louisa May Alcott

But under new conditions and phases we are to meet for the most part repetitions and developments of the forces already recognised as at work from time immemorial.
— from The Evolution of States by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson

The funds, which must enable these last minute pioneers to adjust their affairs and settle down wherever most needed, must, under no circumstances, and particularly on the part of the well-to-do, be withheld, as the present critical situation moves towards its climax.
— from The Unfolding Destiny of the British Bahá'í Community : the Messages from the Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith to the Bahá'ís of the British Isles by Effendi Shoghi

Semi-luxurious Crestwood, the only resort in the Mahela, had accommodations for sixty guests under normal conditions and perhaps ninety if they were crowded in.
— from Double Challenge by Jim Kjelgaard

It is neither so universal nor constant as peace.
— from The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning

Let us now contemplate a pen picture of "The Butcher," painted by Mr. Elbert Rappleye, a very clever American newspaper correspondent: "General Weyler is one of those men who creates a first impression, the first sight of whom can never be effaced from the mind, by whose presence the most careless observer is impressed instantly, and yet, taken altogether, he is a man in whom the elements of greatness are concealed under a cloak of impenetrable obscurity.
— from Cuba: Its Past, Present, and Future by A. D. (Arthur D.) Hall

My friend the Bulgarian' (and she mentioned an unpronounceable name) 'contributed a preface.
— from A Mummer's Wife by George Moore

With a most admirable unanimity— nemine contradicente , as Parliamentary procedure says—the Canadian Parliament decided at once, at the very outbreak of the hostilities, to organize a great army to go and defend the Empire of which the Dominion is an important component part, and Civilization in peril from the Teutonic crushing wave of barbarism, let loose over Belgium and France.
— from England, Canada and the Great War by L. G. (Louis Georges) Desjardins