A few scholars still explore it with delight, as a mine of classic wealth; but the style is hopelessly involved, and to the ordinary reader most of his numerous references are now as unmeaning as a hyper-jacobian surface.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

In America a groomsman is allowed for each bridesmaid, whilst in England one poor man is all that is allowed for six, sometimes eight bridesmaids.
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

I want to see my sister, that you keep cooped up here, poisoning her mind with your sly secrets and pretending an affection for her that you may work her to death, and add a few scraped shillings every week to the money you can hardly count.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

thou knowest how I love them;——thou knowest the secrets of my heart, and that I would this moment give my shirt——Thou art a fool, Shandy, says Eugenius, for thou hast but a dozen in the world,—and ’twill break thy set.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

788. fīō , become , and factus sum supplement each other: in the present system, the passive of faciō , make , except the gerundive, faciendus , is not used, fīō , &c., taking its place; in the perfect system, only factus sum , &c., is used.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

But it is not so clear; on the contrary, it must at first sight seem to every one very improbable that even subjectively that exhibition of pure virtue can have more power over the human mind, and supply a far stronger spring even for effecting that legality of actions, and can produce more powerful resolutions to prefer the law, from pure respect for it, to every other consideration, than all the deceptive allurements of pleasure or of all that may be reckoned as happiness, or even than all threatenings of pain and misfortune.
— from The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant

But Otway failed to polish or refine, And fluent Shakespeare scarce effaced a line.
— from An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires by Alexander Pope

What is most wanted in a woman is gentleness; formed to obey a creature so imperfect as man, a creature often vicious and always faulty, she should early learn to submit to injustice and to suffer the wrongs inflicted on her by her husband without complaint; she must be gentle for her own sake, not his.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The Martello Towers are four strong structures erected at different distances in rear of the city, between the St. Lawrence and the St. Charles.
— from The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, Vol. 1 (of 2) or, Illustrations, by Pen And Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence by Benson John Lossing

At each side of the front there is a small pinnacle, and flanking the gables of the transept there are four somewhat similar elevations.
— from Our Churches and Chapels: Their Parsons, Priests, & Congregations Being a Critical and Historical Account of Every Place of Worship in Preston by Atticus

Neotoma albigula subsolana , differs from topotypes of N. a. leucodon , the subspecies geographically adjacent to the southwest, as follows: size smaller, especially length of palatal bridge (6.9-8.1 instead of 8.2-9.6), alveolar length of maxillary tooth-row (8.3-8.9 instead of 8.8-9.7), and greatest length of auditory bulla (7.3-7.9 instead of 8.2-8.9); mastoid breadth relatively greater, 51.1 (47.8-52.7) instead of 47.0 (45.5-49.1) per cent of basilar length; posterior process of premaxilla extending only slightly beyond posterior border of nasals; auditory bulla conspicuously smaller; upper parts darker, especially middorsally; over-all color grayish instead of ochraceous or yellowish; lips gray instead of nearly white.
— from A New Species of Wood Rat (Neotoma) from Northeastern Mexico by Ticul Alvarez

Sex-Love, and Its Place in a Free Society SEX = LOVE, AND ITS PLACE IN A FREE SOCIETY: (Second Edition)
— from Sex-Love, and Its Place in a Free Society by Edward Carpenter

“'She spakes like a French spy, sure enough,' says Tom; 'and she was missin', I remember, all last Spy-Wednesday.'
— from Handy Andy, Volume 2 — a Tale of Irish Life by Samuel Lover