It is of the greatest importance that whatever diet is found to suit the individual taste, this diet should be eaten slowly and thoroughly masticated, otherwise the most suitable and wholesome food may both disagree with the eater, and lose most of its nourishing value.
— from Daily Training by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

But for any less majestic object in nature, Jim Scroggles had nothing to say either to his eye, or his nose, or his shipmates.
— from The Red Eric by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

‘I am like Moses only in not being eloquent,’ he said in his simplicity.
— from The Minister's Wooing by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Any connection with a large mansion, or its neighbourhood, is sufficient to give name to a new house.
— from The Town: Its Memorable Characters and Events by Leigh Hunt

You'll forgive me for saying of it; but supposing she do , sir?" "No good in supposing, Caudel," said I, suppressing a little movement of irritation; "no good in obstructing one's path by suppositions stuck up like so many fences to stop one from advancing.
— from A Marriage at Sea by William Clark Russell

It then returns to its keeper, who has been anxiously watching and encouraging its movements, and a little manipulation of its neck effects the delivery of the booty.”
— from Birds and Nature, Vol. 10 No. 1 [June 1901] by Various

The American Press-Association, which furnishes plate-matter to thousands of newspapers, secured him in 1888 as Local Manager of its New-York office.
— from Sketches in Crude-oil Some accidents and incidents of the petroleum development in all parts of the globe by John J. (John James) McLaurin

It is for this reason that any gas gives so much brighter a light when burnt in pure oxygen than in air, (1) because the flame is smaller and its heat more concentrated, and (2) because part of its heat is not being wasted in raising the temperature of a large mass of inert nitrogen.
— from Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use A Practical Handbook on the Production, Purification, and Subsequent Treatment of Acetylene for the Development of Light, Heat, and Power by W. J. Atkinson (William John Atkinson) Butterfield

I can forgive being snubbed a little myself, or if not exactly snubbed, treated as a mysterious (and inferior) being from another planet; but if he had been condescending or disagreeable with Miss Evesham I should have hated him.
— from The Affair at the Inn by Jane Helen Findlater