The young Englishman, of mixed parentage, had on his American side a certain quality unusual in the average Englishman, and the rapid fire of his questioning was very characteristic of the land of his mother’s birth, while a certain “sureness” of point of view might be attributed to both countries.
— from My Brother, Theodore Roosevelt by Corinne Roosevelt Robinson

The will is thus the title appropriate to the final stage of a process, by which sensation and impulse have polished and perfected themselves by union and opposition, by differentiation and accompanying redintegration, till they assume characters quite unsurmised in their earliest aspects, and yet only the consolidation or self-realisation of implications.
— from Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Anger and alarm spread through England as the nation learned that James aimed at placing a Catholic queen upon its throne.
— from History of the English People, Volume V Puritan England, 1603-1660 by John Richard Green

When he reduces his diet the cells and fluids of his body free themselves of these by-products and he realizes a capacity quite unguessed in the past.
— from How to Use Your Mind A Psychology of Study: Being a Manual for the Use of Students and Teachers in the Administration of Supervised Study by Harry Dexter Kitson