They were lying on my shelf, and when there was no leaf, they climbed about the shelf, and came to its very edge, but they never fell down, though they are blind.
— from Fables for Children, Stories for Children, Natural Science Stories, Popular Education, Decembrists, Moral Tales by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Actually, [Pg 57] the situation was much worse than these figures suggested, for a census taken in Virginia early in 1625 showed a total population of only 1,275.
— from The Virginia Company Of London, 1606-1624 by Wesley Frank Craven

Nay, I 169 am half inclined to suppose, that, in this debate between us, I have rather your politeness to contend with, than your judgment: and that, if your Lordship would deal roundly with me, your answer on this occasion would be the same with HIS , who, (as I have heard you tell the story) being questioned by his friends why a person of his acknowledged sense and bravery would accept the challenge of a coxcomb, thought it vindication enough of himself to reply, “that, for the men , he could safely trust their judgment; but how should he appear, at night, before the maids of honour 43 ?”
— from The Works of Richard Hurd, Volume 4 (of 8) by Richard Hurd

It burns with a white light, in the proximity of the Milky Way, not far from a constellation that is very easily recognized by the arrangement of its principal stars in the form of a cross.
— from Astronomy for Amateurs by Camille Flammarion

But here again it was so hard and crude that its very equality was like a desert rather than a field.
— from The New Jerusalem by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Close to its dorsal, i.e. embryonic dorsal, edge lies the dorsal pore of the water-vascular system (madreporic canal), and close to its ventral edge the anus.
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 2 (of 4) A Treatise on Comparative Embryology: Invertebrata by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour