When John Browdie came to be spoken of, he dropped, by slow and gradual degrees, into a chair, and rubbing his hands upon his knees—quicker and quicker as the story reached its climax—burst, at last, into a laugh composed of one loud sonorous ‘Ha! ha!’
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Was it some such misfortune that had overtaken those grand and luxurious cities of Oriental lands?
— from Hope Mills; Or, Between Friend and Sweetheart by Amanda M. Douglas

It was a large, cheerful oblong of light, so quite naturally I stopped to investigate, being slightly phototropic, by virtue of the selenium grids in my rectifier cells.
— from B-12's Moon Glow by Charles A. Stearns

“The firing soon began, and about one o’clock one of the most desperate attacks I ever witnessed was made on the centre and left centre of our line; this was defeated, and repeated twice, the armies constantly mixed actually with each other, and the French always covering each attack by the most tremendous cannonade you can possibly imagine.
— from The Story of Napoleon by Harold Wheeler

Limestone is often burned at temperatures just above 900° C, at which point carbon dioxide goes off as a gas, and leaves calcium oxide, or lime.
— from Field Book of Common Rocks and Minerals For identifying the Rocks and Minerals of the United States and interpreting their Origins and Meanings by Frederic Brewster Loomis

a large circular or oval lady cake, and with a sharp knife cut out nicely the inside, leaving the sides and bottom standing, (about half an inch thick,) in the form of a mould.
— from Miss Leslie's Lady's New Receipt-Book, 3rd ed. A Useful Guide for Large or Small Families, Containing Directions for Cooking, Preserving, Pickling... by Eliza Leslie

For a few days I obtained a little consolation out of liquor, but one night after taking a drink I thought I noticed a sediment in the bottom of the glass.
— from Final Proof; Or, The Value of Evidence by Rodrigues Ottolengui

Another large class of originally Latin words appear in English with the ending ‘ ty .’
— from A Book About Words by G. F. (George Frederick) Graham

There is a work of Leon Batista's in a little Chapel of Our Lady on the abutment of the Ponte alla Carraja in Florence—namely, an altar-predella, containing three little scenes with some perspectives, which he was much more able to describe with the pen than to paint with the brush.
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 03 (of 10) Filarete and Simone to Mantegna by Giorgio Vasari