He will be executed at Fisherton gallows, on Tuesday morning, about 11 o'clock, and his body will then be inclosed in a suit of chains, ingeniously made by Mr. Wansborough and conveyed to Chippenham, and affixed to a gibbet erected near the spot where the robbery was committed."
— from Bygone Punishments by William Andrews

I remember it, because, though I knew nothing whatever about the brain, I felt a conviction that a classification thus founded on a single character would break down, and it seemed to me a great error not to separate more completely the Marsupialia...
— from Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 by Charles Darwin

So here is another point of great saving in a gasoline engine, namely, the saving of one man’s time.
— from Farm Engines and How to Run Them: The Young Engineer's Guide by James H. Stephenson

Besides, though you are good enough not to say it, I know that there must be other objections.
— from With Wolfe in Canada: The Winning of a Continent by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Even in a center like Portadown, which, be it noted, is Protestant and to a great extent new, the same undesirable traits assail you pretty well wherever you go.
— from The Wild Irishman by T. W. H. (Thomas William Hodgson) Crosland

“Ah,” he cried, “you are glad enough, now, to see me go!
— from The Gentleman from Indiana by Booth Tarkington

It is a great effort not to sink.
— from Pelham — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

We have reason to doubt that, when we find him threatening the witnesses, and going every night to show their statements to the Jesuits.
— from La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages by Jules Michelet