A pair of glistening eyes, peeping through a broken board at the end, showed me that the foxes had appropriated it to their own use.
— from Nature and Human Nature by Thomas Chandler Haliburton

yet there it was and always on her nose, which turning up and being broad at the end seemed to boast of it and caused warning from a steady gentleman and excellent lodger with breakfast by the week but a little irritable and use of a sitting-room when required, his words being “Mrs. Lirriper I have arrived at the point of admitting that the Black is a man and a brother, but only in a natural form and when it can’t be got off.”
— from Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings by Charles Dickens

It should extend quite through both planes as well as the cube, and be bent around the edges, so as to make them rigid.
— from Carpentry and Woodwork by Edwin W. Foster

We should know more of him and be better able to explain some of the allusions in this chapter if the writings of the secular historians had not come down to us in so fragmentary a condition.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Daniel by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar

The Tsar accepted this advice gladly, and began by asking the eldest Simeon: “Listen to me, my friend: with whatever science or art thou wishest to occupy thyself, in that I will have thee instructed.”
— from Myths and Folk-tales of the Russians, Western Slavs, and Magyars by Jeremiah Curtin

The ox rates better than a butchers' "beast," as the English say.
— from The Golden Censer Or, the duties of to-day, the hopes of the future by John McGovern