The record of tactile sensations is frequent in our protocols and requires constant consideration of the sense’s unreliability.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

Afghanistan Akrotiri the flag of the UK is used Albania red with a black two-headed eagle in the center Algeria two equal vertical bands of green (hoist side) and white; a red, five-pointed star within a red crescent centered over the two-color boundary note: the crescent, star, and color green are traditional symbols of Islam (the state religion)
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

With our pieces ready to fire, we made a regular cavalry charge on the heavy animals, which, however, galloped away at a pretty brisk rate.
— from Maximilian, Prince of Wied's, Travels in the Interior of North America, 1832-1834, part 2 by Wied, Maximilian, Prinz von

The sketch is a rather cruel caricature of the persevering but inefficient sportswoman who is always in the way, and is destined to "develop from a would-be hard-riding maiden into a genuinely hard-featured old maid."
— from Mr. Punch's History of Modern England, Vol. 3 (of 4).—1874-1892 by Charles L. (Charles Larcom) Graves

One day, while strolling in the outskirts of the town, above a cloud of dust, I saw approaching a huge lumbering mass, like a moving hay-stack, swaying from side to side, and I heard the creaking of wheels in the distance, and a volley of strange oaths accompanied the sharp cracking of a whip; presently the horns of a pair of monstrous bullocks appeared, straining solemnly at their yokes; then another and another followed, until I counted five pair of elephantine beasts, drawing a rude cart, composed of two high wheels and a platform without sides, upon which were packed and piled bales of wool full fourteen feet in height.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. IX.—February, 1851.—Vol. II. by Various

Dr. Weddell, alluding to this recklessness as regards C. Calisaya , observes that "the forests of Bolivia, rich as they are, cannot long resist the continued attacks to which they have been recently exposed.
— from Travels in Peru and India While Superintending the Collection of Chinchona Plants and Seeds in South America, and Their Introduction into India. by Markham, Clements R. (Clements Robert), Sir

We see here also the futility of constructing a Ruhmkorff core coil on the closed iron magnetic circuit plan, because the currents in the primary are interrupted, not reversed.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 711, August 17, 1889 by Various