The surface is very uneven, rising like the waves of a troubled sea, descending low, and interspersed by rifts that sink deep.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

[486] as where Utilitarian reasoning leads a man to take part in a political revolution, or to support a public measure in opposition to what Common Sense regards as Justice or Good Faith.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

However, the Syrians, though they were inferior in wealth, yet valuing themselves highly on this account, that the greatest part of the Roman soldiers that were there were either of Cæsarea or Sebaste, they also for some time used reproachful language to the Jews also; and thus it was, till at length they came to throwing stones at one another, and several were wounded, and fell on both sides, though still the Jews were the conquerors.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

I conceived, however, that I held the distinguished situation I had obtained, however unworthily, rather like the champion of pugilism, 3 on the condition of being always ready to show proofs of my skill, than in the manner of the champion of chivalry, who performs his duties only on rare and solemn occasions.
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

How the children—perhaps because they had not yet grown quite away from the breast of the bounteous Mother—threw themselves face downward on her brown bosom with uncouth caresses, filling the air with their laughter; and how Miss Mary herself—felinely fastidious and intrenched as she was in the purity of spotless skirts, collar, and cuffs—forgot all, and ran like a crested quail at the head of her brood, until, romping, laughing, and panting, with a loosened braid of brown hair, a hat hanging by a knotted ribbon from her throat, she came suddenly and violently, in the heart of the forest, upon the luckless Sandy!
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

Pero no es culpa nuestra que la ciencia esté derribando a martillazos un día y otro tanto ídolo vano, la superstición, el sofisma, las mil mentiras de lo pasado, 15 bellas las unas, ridículas las otras, pues de todo hay en la viña del Señor.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Thence in the afternoon with my Lady Batten, leading her through the streets by the hand to St. Dunstan’s Church, hard by us (where by Mrs. Russell’s means we were set well), and heard an excellent sermon of one Mr. Gifford, the parson there, upon “Remember Lot’s wife.”
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Spoil o u r little group.
— from Mrs. Warren's Profession by Bernard Shaw

But soon after his regiment came home he took up religion, left off powdering his hair, sold his commission, and gave the money to the building fund for Wesley's Chapel in the City Road."
— from The Infidel: A Story of the Great Revival by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

The instructions for the preparation of a sauce for the "Beef á la jardinière " seem to us rather lavish.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, Jan. 15, 1919 by Various

He answered up rough like,—I wouldn’t do that, I’d go down on my hands and knees to ’em rather than have any trouble with em,—and the policeman broke his club over his head, arrested him, and they sent him to the chain gang.
— from The Southern South by Albert Bushnell Hart

"No, I am making a tour with my young sister—but let us reach Lidham before we enter into particulars."
— from The Manoeuvring Mother (vol. 3 of 3) by Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady

But it is admitted that the nerve fibres constitute an uninterrupted network which admits of no endings--that is, whose ultimate reticulations lie beyond the microscopic limit.
— from Life: Its True Genesis by Horatius Flaccus

[Until recently little was known about the Parc-aux-Cerfs, and it was believed that a great number of young women had been maintained there at enormous expense.
— from Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, Complete Being the Historic Memoirs of Madam Campan, First Lady in Waiting to the Queen by Mme. (Jeanne-Louise-Henriette) Campan

The 50 cent stamp of course would serve a useful purpose in making up relatively large amounts of postage.
— from Canada: Its Postage Stamps and Postal Stationery by Clifton A. (Clifton Armstrong) Howes

Billy reflected that Mother Jenks had been up rather late the night before and that trade in the cantina of El Buen Amigo had been unusually brisk; so since he desired to exhibit the old lady at her best, he concluded it might be well to spar for wind.
— from Webster—Man's Man by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne