Returning to the hut, they observed that the Gauchos were exceedingly busy round their corral, or enclosure for cattle.
— from The Rover of the Andes: A Tale of Adventure on South America by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

A simple trial of the work either by requiring the child to form sentences similar to those given, or by memorizing the sentences as models for future use, will convince any one of the following advantages to be derived from the Model Word-Book Series: Saving of Time.
— from In the School-Room: Chapters in the Philosophy of Education by John S. (John Seely) Hart

On the walls are the Sunday School tickets that the young Gaudets, now grey-haired men and women, earned by reciting the Catechism when they were little boys and girls—the same old tickets that flourish in the latitudes below.
— from The New North by Agnes Deans Cameron

It was easy, by regulating this counterpoise, to balance in the air either the total weight of the table or only a fraction, more or less great, thereof.
— from Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants by Camille Flammarion

A compromise was effected, by referring the case to the proprietors for a decision.
— from The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, Vol. 2 (of 2) or, Illustrations, by Pen And Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence by Benson John Lossing

I wager that before long you will even be reading the classics.
— from Discourses of Keidansky by Bernard G. Richards

"Then our attempts to destroy her ought to have been successful, for they were equally brave," retorted the captain.
— from Rodney, the Overseer by Harry Castlemon

Numbers of them sought only to shorten regular time in order to lengthen overtime, and numbers more got themselves persuaded that a general reduction of hours was the grand means of effecting a general rise of wages, either by removing the competition of the unemployed, or in some other way; and it has often been only the few—always the very élite of labour—who fought for the eight hours day because they valued the leisure enough to make, if necessary, some little sacrifice for so noble a boon.
— from Contemporary Socialism by John Rae

In particular, it has always seemed to me that the curved, especially the doubly curved, streamers of the [109] corona can only be well explained by regarding the corona as in the main an auroral phenomenon.
— from Flowers of the Sky by Richard A. (Richard Anthony) Proctor

He rode fast and with a little watchfulness, exercised before reaching the Crazy Woman, satisfied himself that he had not been followed out of town.
— from Laramie Holds the Range by Frank H. (Frank Hamilton) Spearman