It will go on in its ring-dance of moral corruption, linking steel unto steel, and machine unto machine; trampling under its tread all the sweet flowers of simple faith and the living ideals of man.
— from Nationalism by Rabindranath Tagore

At home I had to expect my wife’s amazement and perhaps her mockery, the dismal upper storey and my uneasiness; but, still, at my age that was easier and as it were more homelike than travelling for two days and nights with strangers to Petersburg, where I should be conscious every minute that my life was of no use to any one or to anything, and that it was approaching its end.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Once, however, when we had prolonged our walk far beyond its ordinary limits, and so had been very glad to encounter, half way home, as afternoon darkened into evening, Dr. Percepied, who drove past us at full speed in his carriage, saw and recognised us, stopped, and made us jump in beside him, I received an impression of this sort which I did not abandon without having first subjected it to an examination a little more thorough.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

Uerd , sb. army, MD; uerden , pl. dat. , S; see Ferd .
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

I need not tell the reader, if he keeps a H OBBY -H ORSE ,—that a man’s H OBBY -H ORSE is as tender a part as he has about him; and that these unprovoked strokes at my uncle Toby ’s could not be unfelt by him.——No:——as I said above, my uncle Toby did feel them, and very sensibly too.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

I need not tell the reader, if he keeps a Hobby-Horse,—that a man's Hobby-Horse is as tender a part as he has about him; and that these unprovoked strokes at my uncle Toby's could not be unfelt by him.—No:—as I said above, my uncle Toby did feel them, and very sensibly too.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

pounce upon, spring a mine upon.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

716 0 0 Fatted Cattle ........................ 1,840 0 0 High Wines ........................... 3,098 0 0 Whiskey .............................. 1,830 0 0 ————————————- L153,411 16 6 Our exports to the United States are made up as follows: 30,686 bushels of Wheat .....................
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

Starting from the axiom that every event has a cause, we have here the causa finalis manifested in the last set of phenomena, the causa materialis and formalis in the first, while the existence of a causa efficiens within the seed or egg and its product, is a corollary from the phenomena of growth and metamorphosis, which proceed in unbroken succession and make up the life of the animal or plant.
— from Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions by Thomas Henry Huxley

It is with satisfaction that I am able to announce that the joint commission for the adjustment of claims between the United States and Mexico under the convention of 1868, the duration of which has been several times extended, has brought its labors to a close.
— from State of the Union Addresses by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

But all this is not Paris, Paris of olden times, of history; it is beautiful, but it is terribly new, and the old fogies of the Faubourg St. Germain, emerging from their narrow streets, shake their heads at the broad new avenues, with their unmitigated straightness and meaningless uniformity.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 05, April 1867 to September 1867 by Various

Though war was not declared by the United States against Mexico until May, 1846, it had been a possibility ever since the establishment of the Texan Republic by the defeat of the Mexicans at San Jacinto in 1834, and it had been a great probability since 1841, when it was discovered that both England and France were holding out prospects of assistance to the Mexicans (p. 659) in case of conflict with the United States.
— from The Naval History of the United States. Volume 2 by Willis J. (Willis John) Abbot

For who thinks, my Lords, that the insatiable cruelty of the Papists within this realm shall end in the murdering of these two brethren now unjustly summoned, and more unjustly to be accused?
— from The History of the Reformation of Religion in Scotland With Which Are Included Knox's Confession and The Book of Discipline by John Knox

It makes us so ashamed; makes us think how much more we might have done; how lovely a thing it is to give in return for such common gifts as ours; how needy the man or woman must be in whom a trifle awakes so much emotion.
— from The Seaboard Parish Volume 1 by George MacDonald

To this I deigned no answer but trudged on in moody silence, endeavouring to formulate some method of escape from this outrageous creature and so absorbed that I paid not the least heed to her foolish chatter until suddenly and most unpleasantly roused by the touch of her fingers on my ear which she tweaked none too gently.
— from Peregrine's Progress by Jeffery Farnol