After 1870 there was developed on a large scale an unprecedented situation, and the economic condition of Europe became during the next fifty years unstable and peculiar.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes

For every real dilemma is in literal strictness a unique situation; and the exact combination of ideals realized and ideals disappointed which each decision creates is always a universe without a precedent, and for which no adequate previous rule exists.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

What is Ripley's conclusion in regard to urban selection and the ethnic composition of cities?
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

The feeble flame gave one dispirited upward spurt at this encouragement, causing excitement in front.
— from The Wishing Moon by Louise Elizabeth Dutton

Steam lines, as stated in the preceding extract from the Admiralty Report, were established, radiating from England to all the prominent European ports, to the Mediterranean, to Egypt, the East-Indies and China, the West-India Islands, South-America and Mexico, the ports in the Gulf of Mexico and Havana, the United States and the English colonial possessions in North-America, and to the islands and ports in the Pacific ocean.
— from Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean Post by Thomas Rainey

The solidity of these wagons, which occasionally passed us singly, and the excellent condition of the teams excited our admiration, they contrasted so strikingly with our own.
— from Our campaign around Gettysburg Being a memorial of what was endured, suffered and accomplished by the Twenty-third regiment (N. Y. S. N. G.) and other regiments associated with them, in their Pennsylvania and Maryland campaign, during the second rebel invasion of the loyal states in June-July, 1863 by John Lockwood

There's that long up sweep, and that easy curve to the right with no hitch.
— from Cressy by Bret Harte

The very silence ended by having its own charm, by becoming an actual pleasure to me; and I took particular delight in roaming about the Forum, the ruins of the Palatine Hill, and the Coliseum, those glorious relics of a power and splendour departed, which have rested now for centuries under the august and peaceful rule of the universal Shepherd, and the Empress city of the world.
— from Charles Gounod Autobiographical Reminiscences with Family Letters and Notes on Music by Charles Gounod

On one or the other of these two scales he was placed by every man in the United States, according to each citizen's modicum of sense and temper.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 2, February, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

It stated also that there was no common law of the United States and that (English) common law as to copyright had not been adopted in Pennsylvania, where the case arose.
— from Copyright: Its History and Its Law by R. R. (Richard Rogers) Bowker

During the great debate, which now opened in the Senate, upon the Judiciary Committee's substitute resolution for the Amendment of the Constitution, so as forever to prohibit Slavery within the United States, and to empower Congress to pass such laws as would make that prohibition effective—participated in by Messrs. Trumbull, Wilson, Saulsbury, Davis, Harlan, Powell, Sherman, Clark, Hale, Hendricks, Henderson, Sumner, McDougall and others—the whole history of Slavery was enquired into and laid bare.
— from The Great Conspiracy, Volume 6 by John Alexander Logan