[147] When I sent my servant on to you, I strolled in here because the place was new to me; and I had a natural curiosity in everything new and old, in these old scenes; and it was outside the town.
— from The Battle of Life: A Love Story by Charles Dickens

The effects described by Miss Martineau as produced upon herself, are credible and not preternatural, while the second-sight of the girl J—— is preternatural and not credible; i. e. not credible as preternatural, otherwise easily explicable.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 by Various

There are, therefore, neither astral septa nor a nodal cavity in each nodal point.
— from Report on the Radiolaria Collected by H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-1876, Second Part: Subclass Osculosa; Index Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-76, Vol. XVIII by Ernst Haeckel

There follow scenes like those in Valérie —projects of suicide which are never carried into execution; nights spent by the lovers in tender converse, with a thick oaken door between them; rapt, sentimental ecstasies.
— from Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature - 3. The Reaction in France by Georg Brandes