Stamens numerous; no filaments; anthers round and very small.
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera

Accordingly, though he used to mock and ridicule Alexinus very severely, still he conferred great benefits on him, conducting his wife from Delphi to Chalcis for him, as she was alarmed about the danger of robbers and banditti in the road.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

I am reading a very sad story, called "Little Jakey."
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

During 1874-7 Stanley surveyed Lakes Victoria Nyanza and Tanganyika and explored the intervening country; then going westward to where Livingstone had struck the Congo he followed the river down to its mouth, thus finally settling its course and completing a remarkable and valuable series of explorations.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

You might see almost as far; the sunshiny road a little winding and rising a very slight ascent.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

The Dieri tribe of Central Australia regard as very sacred certain trees which are supposed to be their fathers transformed; hence they speak with reverence of these trees, and are careful that they shall not be cut down or burned.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

The pistol snapped its penultimate shot and ripped a valuable Sidney Cooper.
— from The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

She looked at Rachael, and very slowly, very cautiously, poured out the contents.
— from Hard Times by Charles Dickens

Now, as luck would have it, Roger invariably wore a belt round his waist, to which was attached a very fine Venetian dagger, slender of blade, sharp as a razor, and very strong.
— from Across the Spanish Main: A Tale of the Sea in the Days of Queen Bess by Harry Collingwood

Now that I am the head of an honourable house, and that enterprises of the most daring character await my decision, and retainers and vassals seem ready to rise at my beck, my safety consists chiefly in the attachment of a blind stroller!’
— from Redgauntlet: A Tale Of The Eighteenth Century by Walter Scott

In sober thought, I, a reporter, was shadowing a respectable and venerable scientist, who in turn was probably about to investigate at length some little-known deep-sea conditions or phenomena of an unexplored island.
— from The Mystery by Samuel Hopkins Adams

And I am really a very safe person to talk to.
— from Watersprings by Arthur Christopher Benson

At that time, also, she looked no older than she was; in which respect, a rapid and very singular change took place, to the surprise of everybody.
— from The Life of Lord Byron by John Galt

Wherever the mountains retreat from the river the intervening country is profusely cultivated, and the sloping sides of the hills, covered with a rich and varied semi-tropical foliage, sweep down to the low land.
— from Ti-Ping Tien-Kwoh: The History of the Ti-Ping Revolution (Volume I) by Augustus F. Lindley

The girl in her pink evening dress looked very light and pretty to me—pretty enough to enrage me,—she had well shaped arms and white, well-modeled shoulders, and the turn of her cheek and the fair hair about her ears was full of subtle delights; but she was not Nettie, and the happy man with her was that odd degenerate type our old aristocracy produced with such odd frequency, chinless, large bony nose, small fair head, languid expression, and a neck that had demanded and received a veritable sleeve of collar.
— from In the Days of the Comet by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

After reading a verse, she closed her eyes and repeated it to herself.
— from Molly Brown's Junior Days by Nell Speed

You will write home and say how rude and rough and vulgar some of them are.’
— from Australian Writers by Desmond Byrne