There are hardly any poultry now, since my mother's death; but there's the house, as you know it, and the garden.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

The line cannot always be drawn very sharply between these stems in -io- (many of which may be formed through a presumed noun stem), and denominatives in -io- ( 249 ).
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

The very fact that the mind, though acknowledging the imperfection of its own ideal, unconsciously asserts, that somewhere, in some mind, there is an ideal, in which a perfect hand joins a perfect arm, and a perfect foot a perfect leg, and these a perfect trunk; and a perfect neck supports a perfect head, adorned by perfect features, and thus there is a perfect ideal, is decisive that such an ideal exists.
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation Including Some Strictures Upon the Theories of Rev. Henry L. Mansel and Mr. Herbert Spencer by Jesse Henry Jones

But apart from this they choose oak-woods for their sacred groves and perform no sacred rites without oak-leaves; so that the very name of Druids may be regarded as a Greek appellation derived from their worship of the oak.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

At a plantation near some Indian mounds we met a detachment of the Eighth Missouri, that had been up to the fleet, and had been sent down as a picket to prevent any obstructions below.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

You are perhaps not so unwilling to be known—?"
— from Cubs of the Wolf by Raymond F. Jones

It is difficult to understand how a people numerically so weak as the inhabitants of that portion of the once great kingdom of Poland, which fell to the Russian Empire at the time of the unfortunate partition, could have undertaken a rebellion against so great a Power as Russia.
— from Pius IX. And His Time by Æneas MacDonell Dawson

At mention of the audacious peasant, Nara smiled quietly, for he thought he saw his way to make a weapon of him wherewith to vex the enemy.
— from The Curse of Koshiu: A Chronicle of Old Japan by Lewis Wingfield

"He always comes; he's a perfect nuisance," she observed.
— from The Halo by Bettina Von Hutten

Other blow holes were later detected along the ice, then they disappeared and for a period no seal rewarded the hunters.
— from The Eternal Maiden by T. Everett (Thomas Everett) Harré

Once the office force, including De Quille, McCarthy, and a printer named Stephen Gillis, of whom Clemens was very fond, bought a large imitation meerschaum pipe, had a German-silver plate set on it, properly engraved, and presented it to Samuel Clemens as genuine, in testimony of their great esteem.
— from The Boys' Life of Mark Twain by Albert Bigelow Paine

As an unmarried woman, Ann, you could not remain here with us men——" (Ann: "Pooh, nonsense!") "Supposing we were really attacked by the Arabs and we men were killed, I dare not think what might be your fate!
— from The Man Who Did the Right Thing: A Romance by Harry Johnston

And pray now, since it is your own motion to return again to him, let us discourse a little more of his quiet and still death.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by John Bunyan