A new eclipse thus entering will at first be a very small one, but will be larger at every recurrence in each Saros.
— from The Story of Eclipses by George F. (George Frederick) Chambers

In its typical form this species has an extensive range in England, spreading from Yorkshire to Surrey and Sussex.
— from The Moths of the British Isles, Second Series Comprising the Families Noctuidæ to Hepialidæ by Richard South

We may remedy this by takeing one only Matter, that is tractable and easily reduceable into every sort of Figure.
— from A Discourse Presented to the Most Serene Don Cosimo II., Great Duke of Tuscany, Concerning the Natation of Bodies Vpon, and Submersion In, the Water. by Galileo Galilei

In thought and action they are ever rushing into empty spaces.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 04, June 1884, No. 9 by Chautauqua Institution

There are established rites in early social conditions, by which a stranger is received into the bond of fellowship and the sanctity of friendship.
— from Races and Peoples: Lectures on the Science of Ethnography by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton

Its two streets thus arranged contain some thirty houses, six or seven stories high; and every story, and every room in every story, is a workshop and a warehouse for goods of every sort and description, for this wart upon the face of Paris is a miniature Faubourg Saint-Antoine.
— from Poor Relations by Honoré de Balzac

Though Agnes Strickland stated that copies of this Queens Closet Opened are exceedingly rare in England, several are preserved in old New England families, some of them the descendants of colonial physicians; and the book may be shown as a fair example of the methods of practice and composition of prescriptions in colonial and provincial days.
— from Customs and Fashions in Old New England by Alice Morse Earle

But one will find in lieu of it hardy exhibitions of the strength, the courage, the endurance, the indomitable unflagging spirit that came finally to set an English Resident in every state of India.
— from The Gilded Chair: A Novel by Melville Davisson Post