He was coming to life again--he had survived the race. The last shout of applause which hailed Fleetwood's victory rang out as they lifted him from the ground to carry him to the pavilion.
Relieved of the oppression which had kept him silent while the race was in progress, Sir Patrick put a question to the surgeon as they drove home, which had been in his mind from the moment when Geoffrey had lost the day.
Man And Wife
"He is the Statesman who saved his country," answered the
Race Horse.
Fantastic Fables
The race that formed the character of the Haytiens was a worn-out, effeminate one; and, of course, the subject race will be centuries in rising to anything.
A nation has a right to argue, remonstrate, implore, and present the cause of its race,--which an individual has not.
Uncle Toms Cabin
For a coloured man to work it out in the South, where, in its constructive period, he was necessarily misunderstood by his own people as well as by the whites, and where he had to adjust it at every step to the strained
race relations--that is so very different and more difficult a thing that the man who did it put the country under lasting obligations to him.
Up From Slavery
Without the great secret this maleless
race must even-tually become extinct.
Pellucidar
Highcamp deplored the absence of her daughter from the
races, and tried to convey to her what she had missed by going to the "Dante reading" instead of joining them.
Awakening and Selected Short Stories
Trent, who had been looking forward to the next few minutes with all the eagerness of a man who, for the first time in his life, runs the favourite in a great
race, smiled as he realised how very content he was to stay where nothing could be seen until the final struggle was over.
A Millionaire of Yesterday
These ancient Martians had been a highly cultivated and literary
race, but during the vicissitudes of those trying centuries of readjustment to new conditions, not only did their advancement and production cease entirely, but practically all their archives, records, and literature were lost.
Princess of Mars
The excitement of the approaching
race gained upon him as he drove further and further into the atmosphere of the
races, overtaking carriages driving up from the summer villas or out of Petersburg.
Anna Karenina
"Once, when I was young," said Jim, "I was a
race horse, and defeated all who dared run against me.
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
When we attempt to estimate the amount of structural difference between the domestic
races of the same species, we are soon involved in doubt, from not knowing whether they have descended from one or several parent-species.
The Origin of Species
The dominant
race of Pellucidar, David, have not yet learned that men converse among themselves, or reason.
At the Earths Core
And I do not pretend to any interest in the enumeration of the great
races of that year.
Mirror of the Sea