Hence, when a witness says anything which appears to have been difficult to remember, it is necessary to ask him how he was able to remember it.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

Henry V., who had already made several exactions from Normandy before he had obtained by force the throne of France, did not spare the other provinces, and, whilst proclaiming his good intentions towards his future subjects, he added a new general impost, in the shape of a forced loan, to the taxes which already weighed so heavily on the people.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

Men who remembered Rome engaged in waging petty wars almost within sight of the Capitol lived to see her the mistress of Italy.
— from Lays of Ancient Rome by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

Besides, Kotick was a white seal.
— from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

"Christen und Juden," by the late Rev. A. Fürst, D.D., formerly a Missionary and Pastor at Amsterdam, and well acquainted with Spanish literature.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

Naglúmung ang túbig dinhi kay walay awtlit, Water stagnates here because there is no outlet.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

She had a French master, who complimented her upon the purity of her accent and her facility of learning; the fact is she had learned long ago and grounded herself subsequently in the grammar so as to be able to teach it to George; and Madam Strumpff came to give her lessons in singing, which she performed so well and with such a true voice that the Major's windows, who had lodgings opposite under the Prime Minister, were always open to hear the lesson.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

But even this apology was spoken in such a mechanical way and with such false intonation that the manufacturer would certainly have noticed if he had not been fully preoccupied with his business affairs.
— from The Trial by Franz Kafka

It was a warm, sunshiny morning, but the brightness of the outer air was poorly reflected in the stuffy room, which though comfortably and even luxuriously furnished, conveyed the usual sense of dismal depression common to London precincts of the law.
— from The Treasure of Heaven: A Romance of Riches by Marie Corelli

A few miles below the city the river is blocked up, almost all the way across, with stones and old junks, which are covered at high water.
— from Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China Including a visit to the tea, silk, and cotton countries; with an account of the agriculture and horticulture of the Chinese, new plants, etc. by Robert Fortune

On either side were twenty portholes that could be left open when weather permitted, but each porthole was equipped with a panel of glass that closed from the inside in cold weather and wooden shutters that swung from the outside and were to be used during violent storms or in heavy seas.
— from Hi Jolly! by Jim Kjelgaard

The antagonism which, as we shall see in a few moments, blazed out against me from the commencement of my platform work, was based partly on ignorance, was partly aroused by my direct attacks on Christianity, and by the combative spirit I myself showed in those attacks, and very largely by my extreme Radicalism in politics.
— from Annie Besant: An Autobiography by Annie Besant

Siegmund Wagner substitutes for the warrior whom Brünnhilde in the saga once struck down, contrary to Wotan's wishes, and when she is put to sleep on the mountain it is for protecting, not slaying, the wrong man.
— from Richard Wagner His Life and His Dramas A Biographical Study of the Man and an Explanation of His Work by W. J. (William James) Henderson

Admitting that there exists in Africa something like to courts of justice; yet what an office of humiliation and meanness is it in us, to take upon ourselves to carry into execution the partial, the cruel, iniquitous sentences of such courts, as if we also were strangers to all religion, and to the first principles of justice.
— from The American Union Speaker by John D. (John Dudley) Philbrick

Alphonse de Candolle and others have shown that plants which have very wide ranges generally present varieties; and this might have been expected, as they are exposed to diverse physical conditions, and as they come into competition (which, as we shall hereafter see, is a far more important circumstance) with different sets of organic beings.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

Then there was a wild shriek, a crash, and the head of our fast cutter crashed into them, driving their bows round, partly forcing them under water, and the flimsily-built boat began rapidly to fill.
— from Blue Jackets: The Log of the Teaser by George Manville Fenn

The embarcation was a wondrous spectacle, such as civilized eyes have rarely beheld, and can never witness again.
— from The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions, in Their Explorations of the Prairies, Forests, Lakes, and Rivers, of the New World, and Their Interviews with the Savage Tribes, Two Hundred Years Ago by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott