The victories of the Arabs after Mahomet, who, in a few years, from a small and mean beginning, established a larger empire than that of Rome, is an example.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

I’ll never send anything more by ’em.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

Hence it is that the widely-diffused sea is impregnated with the flavour of salt, in consequence of what is sweet and mild being evaporated from it, which the force of fire easily accomplishes; while all the more acrid and thick matter is left behind; on which account the water of the sea is less salt at some depth than at the surface.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

Granted the previous actions which you surmise, anything may be expected!” The old man remained silent from inability to answer these questions.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

With a handful of dust I made a water-mark round my neck, the place where Mr Turnbull's Sunday ablutions might be expected to stop.
— from The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan

Hence the impracticability of such a maxim becomes evident under the light of publicity.
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

Jews and Arabs are at any rate both Semites and may be expected to have certain ideas in common, but to place a highly civilized Aryan race under Semitic control is another matter.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

She shall acquire merit by entertaining us—in a little while—at an after-occasion—softly, softly.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

And with that he brought the paper to his eyes and read as follows: "MY DEAR UTTERSON,—When this shall fall into your hands, I shall have disappeared, under what circumstances I have not the penetration to foresee, but my instinct and all the circumstances of my nameless situation tell me that the end is sure and must be early.
— from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

Once, a canvas office where you could send a message by electricity anywhere around the world!
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

Altogether it is not much like the production of a mere man of letters, or a fastidious speculator in sentiment and morality; but exhibits throughout, and in a very pleasing form, the good sense and large toleration of a man of the world."
— from Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature by Margaret Ball

This will serve to explain why the tropical flowering trees and shrubs do not make so much show as might be expected.
— from Travels on the Amazon by Alfred Russel Wallace

The proprietor's care for the convenience and enjoyment of his guests is such as might be expected of a tasteful Knickerbocker , from the classic region of Sleepy Hollow.
— from The Knickerbocker, Vol. 22, No. 6, December 1843 by Various

All the drawers of the bureau were closed and there was no sign of any disorder such as might be expected if she had changed and gone out.
— from The Green Rust by Edgar Wallace

But this initiatory sketch, as might be expected, was very imperfect; and with respect to insects, instead of an improvement upon his predecessors, was extremely inferior to what Ray had effected; for he puts into one Order (to which he gives the name of Angioptera )
— from An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. 4 or Elements of the Natural History of the Insects by William Kirby

Among the rest, Gyges was admitted to this happiness, and the consequence was such as might be expected from his folly.
— from Constantinople and the Scenery of the Seven Churches of Asia Minor Series One and Series Two in one Volume by R. (Robert) Walsh

If a phonetic change has given to some words two forms without any difference in signification, the same alternation may be extended to other cases in which the sound in question has a different origin (‘phonetic analogy’).
— from Language: Its Nature, Development and Origin by Otto Jespersen

The subject of the contact of curves presents many interesting problems with [ 48 ] reference to Polemical Science, and may be extended indefinitely.
— from The Romance of Mathematics Being the Original Researches of a Lady Professor of Girtham College in Polemical Science, with some Account of the Social Properties of a Conic; Equations to Brain Waves; Social Forces; and the Laws of Political Motion. by P. Hampson