They all had short necks and legs, pink hair and eyes, rosy cheeks and pink complexions, and their faces were good-natured and jolly in expression.
— from Sky Island Being the Further Exciting Adventures of Trot and Cap'n Bill After Their Visit to the Sea Fairies by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

Viewed from above, Figure 23, A, the forehead presents an evenly rounded curve, and passes into the contour of the sides and back of the skull, which describes a tolerably regular elliptical curve.
— from Lectures and Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley

I have seen many of them struggle with difficulty, and exhibit rare courage and patience; I have watched them grow older and feebler.
— from London's Underworld by Thomas Holmes

23, A , the forehead presents an evenly rounded curve, and passes into the contour of the sides and back of the skull, which describes a tolerably regular elliptical curve.
— from Man's Place in Nature, and Other Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley

And they are, even, rightly considered as properties of animated nature itself; because they may evidently be affiliated to the general laws of animated nature; because we may fairly presume that some rudiments or feeble degrees of those properties would be recognized in all animals by more perfect organs, or even by more perfect instruments, than ours; and because those may be correctly termed properties of a class, which a thing exhibits exactly in proportion as it belongs to the class, that is, in proportion as it possesses the main attributes constitutive of the class. § 4.
— from A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive by John Stuart Mill

All contracts, stipulations, and conditions, regarding the right of controlling and regulating the charges for freight and passengers upon railroads, heretofore made, in granting lands or other property, or franchises to railroad corporations, are expressly reserved, continued, and perpetuated, in full force and effect, to be exercised by the general assembly whenever the public good and the public necessity requires such exercise thereof."
— from Monopolies and the People by D. C. Cloud

She was taken to see the parish schools, and was walked into the parish church,—in which the Stowte family were possessed of an enormous recess called a pew, but which was in truth a room, with a fireplace in it.
— from The Vicar of Bullhampton by Anthony Trollope

24, A, the forehead presents an evenly rounded curve, and passes into the contour of the sides and back of the skull, which describes a tolerably regular elliptical curve.
— from On Some Fossil Remains of Man by Thomas Henry Huxley

Lady Feenix's? Been much abroad lately—really feel quite strange on an English race course," and persuaded him to take her round before the great people of the day were all assembled.
— from Mrs. Warren's Daughter: A Story of the Woman's Movement by Harry Johnston