Scanning newsletter headlines and conducting keyword searches are cheaper.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

Long experience has taught her a candid, kindly, sensible way of presenting her views, which wins the good will of her hearers whether they accept them or not.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

Not often, certainly, in history, has a Christian king spoken thus calmly of butchering his subjects while the work was proceeding all around him.
— from The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-84) by John Lothrop Motley

The old jeans-clad mountaineer had a certain keen spryness of aspect, despite his bent knees and stooped shoulders.
— from The Raid of The Guerilla, and Other Stories by Mary Noailles Murfree

He and Count Karl started for the Val Camonica on the chance of intercepting the pursuit.
— from Vittoria — Complete by George Meredith

She, full of health and cheerfulness, kept sending the little lad to and fro between the two men, from the grandfather, who obstinately lived on in hopeless suffering, to the father, who was already undermined by terror of the hereafter.
— from The Joy of Life [La joie de vivre] by Émile Zola

"Leave him alone," called Kit sternly.
— from The Gentleman: A Romance of the Sea by Alfred Ollivant