Dick, who, in serious earnest, was supposed to have considerable natural talents for his profession, and whose vain and sanguine disposition never permitted him to doubt for a moment of ultimate success, threw himself headlong into the crowd which jostled and struggled for notice and preferment.
— from The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott

Of these dreary hours in the lecture-rooms the biting comments of Faust and Mephistopheles on university studies in general are the lively reminiscence.
— from The Youth of Goethe by Peter Hume Brown

A few awful minutes of universal silence followed, which was at last broken by the watch-bells of the fleet striking eight o'clock.
— from The Influence of Sea Power upon the French Revolution and Empire 1793-1812, vol 1 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

And so I rambled on, soothing her shaken feeling and my own until she had let me beguile her out of her attitude of reluctance and shrinking into one at least of common interest.
— from Miss Bretherton by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

[60] To make a bar scale for a map of unknown scale that shows only a single meridian and parallel, or for a map on which no meridians or parallels are shown, first ascertain the distance between two points shown on the map by reference to other authentic maps.
— from The Preparation of Illustrations for Reports of the United States Geological Survey With Brief Descriptions of Processes of Reproduction by John L. Ridgway

Method of making a bar scale for a map of unknown scale 60 9.
— from The Preparation of Illustrations for Reports of the United States Geological Survey With Brief Descriptions of Processes of Reproduction by John L. Ridgway

No; he feared all manner of unknown sorrows; he looked vaguely forward to a sea of difficulty, to be waded across in blindness and bewilderment before he could clasp his rescued wife in his arms; but he never thought that she was dead.
— from John Marchmont's Legacy, Volumes 1-3 by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

The lighter forms are mounted on upright stands, with screws at the ends [256] for fastening to the floor and roof, although the heavier types are sometimes mounted on trucks.
— from Every-day Science: Volume 6. The Conquest of Nature by Edward Huntington Williams

There followed a moment of utter stillness, then the sudden scrape and shuffle of feet, and thereafter Carnaby's voice, a little raised and wholly incredulous: "What, Viscount,—d'you mean to take this fellow's part—against me?"
— from The Amateur Gentleman by Jeffery Farnol