These men no doubt were paid in full, but when that was done eight months of new and fifteen months of old arrears were due to those that remained under arms.
— from Ireland under the Stuarts and During the Interregnum, Vol. 3 (of 3), 1660-1690 by Richard Bagwell

At first, disregarding the smoke and mist which became denser every minute, our navigator was soon aware that "So thick a haze o'erspreads the sky, He cannot see the sun on high: On deck the captain takes his stand, So dull it is, he sees no land.
— from By Water to the Columbian Exposition by Johanna Sara Wisthaler

However, a convenient railway accident, the deus ex machina of nineteenth-century novels, carries Miss Norma Novello off; and everybody is finally made happy, except, of course, the philosopher, who gets only a lesson where he wanted to get love.
— from Reviews by Oscar Wilde

You could not even seek out the submarines thus sheltered by other submarines because running below the surface our boats could not detect either mines or nets and would be doomed to destruction.
— from Aircraft and Submarines The Story of the Invention, Development, and Present-Day Uses of War's Newest Weapons by Willis J. (Willis John) Abbot

This shocking circumstance is enough, one would think, to deter every mother or nurse, who becomes acquainted with it, from using needles in infants' clothes.
— from The Young Mother: Management of Children in Regard to Health by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott

The Bolsheviki occupying the various newspaper plants began deserting en masse over neighboring roofs and the plants were occupied by government troops without a contest.
— from And the Kaiser abdicates: The German Revolution November 1918-August 1919 by S. Miles (Stephen Miles) Bouton