That same day Washington's army, free from its long exile at Valley Forge, occupied the capital.
— from Washington and His Comrades in Arms: A Chronicle of the War of Independence by George McKinnon Wrong

Various supraorbital and postorbital bones, etc. are also frequently found in Lacertilia, etc. which are not impossibly phylogenetically independent of the membrane bones inherited from Fishes; and may have been evolved as bony scutes in the subdermal tissue of the papillæ of the sauropsidan scales.
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 3 (of 4) A Treatise on Comparative Embryology: Vertebrata by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour

There was a touch of treachery in this proceeding against a former friend, in looking everywhere for evidence against him, in driving him into court, that is to say, towards the galleys or the scaffold; and this revolted people’s consciences.
— from Within an Inch of His Life by Emile Gaboriau

Clusters of grapes four and five feet in length, each grape as large as an orange, and apples larger than a man's head typified the wonderful growth of all things on the "inside" of the earth.
— from The Smoky God; Or, A Voyage to the Inner World by Willis George Emerson

The labrum hangs like a flap from its lower edge.
— from The Structure and Life-history of the Cockroach (Periplaneta orientalis) An Introduction to the Study of Insects by L. C. (Louis Compton) Miall