Being a funny rogue, his heart soon cheered up; nor could he refrain from a hearty laugh at the uproar which his story had excited.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Just as all the children born here under normal conditions have reverted to pigmented skin and hair and eyes, so even the grown-ups have thrown back to civilization.
— from Darkness and Dawn by George Allan England

Resolved , That under no circumstances has religion excited such general interest, as when, not rendered odious by legal restraints, it has addressed its claims for support to the understandings and consciences of men.
— from The Olden Time Series, Vol. 3: New-England Sunday Gleanings Chiefly From Old Newspapers Of Boston And Salem, Massachusetts by Henry M. (Henry Mason) Brooks

Let us now consider her rival in the dispute which has led to the great war—Serbia.
— from The War and Democracy by John Dover Wilson

Some were regular appointees, but any one could be called upon, nor could he refuse to serve without pay.
— from A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 2 by Henry Charles Lea

Interspecific matings under laboratory conditions [Pg 533] are not uncommon and several verbal reports of such matings under natural conditions have reached me.
— from Natural History of the Ornate Box Turtle, Terrapene ornata ornata Agassiz by John M. Legler

Even the town seemed to him in these early hours an unreal place; it was not possible that it lay only a few hours distant, with its affairs going on uninterruptedly; nor could he realize that he would himself take up there the threads of his life that now seemed so hopelessly broken.
— from The Main Chance by Meredith Nicholson