The longer she had to ponder her mission the better, and she sat up nervously straight pondering it, tracing with her parasol a sage-green block in the elderly aestheticated pattern of the carpet.
— from A Daughter of To-Day by Sara Jeannette Duncan

The stronger may do the same, but he will be under no such paramount inducement to do so.
— from Naval Warfare by James R. (James Richard) Thursfield

The subjects of the said States-General of the United Netherlands shall pay in the ports, havens, roads, countries, islands, cities, or places of the United States of America, or any of them, no other nor greater duties or imposts, of whatever nature or (p. 076)
— from The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 by J. F. (Joseph Florimond) Loubat

Born in another class, he might have been, he would have been, a writer more refined in his strength, more uniformly excellent, but never so universal nor so popular in the best sense of the term.
— from Essays in Little by Andrew Lang

I repeat, collect your faculties, and utter not such palpably idle tales.
— from The Youth of the Great Elector by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

Practical men utilizing the results of the great work in the business affairs of life, use no stinted phrases in the encomiums they bestow upon it; Military men compelled to rely upon it in the perils of warfare, have not found it wanting, and have given only praise for the great help it was to them; Scientific men, ever watchful of that which is true, have approved it the world over, and cite it as an example of the great profit that may come to a people, free to utilize Science in the conduct of practical work.
— from The National Geographic Magazine, Vol. I., No. 1, October, 1888 by Various

The salad of unprincipled notions she put into these girl-friends’ heads!
— from Chance: A Tale in Two Parts by Joseph Conrad