It led to many imitations; and one of the most popular of these answers line for line, save that it is more stiff and rectilinear, to the pattern in a recently discovered Old Red Sandstone coral, the Smithia Pengellyi .
— from The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed by Hugh Miller

This "bookishness" formed a real defect of Renaissance systems of training.
— from Early European History by Hutton Webster

The only safe course lies in placing implicit trust in an efficient and recognized director of relief such as the Red Cross is in a position to furnish.
— from The Survey, Volume XXX, Number 1, April 5, 1913 by Various

Especially among modern industrial nations, with their increasing theological { 28} apathy, are religious differences of relatively small importance in determining wars.
— from American World Policies by Walter E. (Walter Edward) Weyl

The legend of the dragon's teeth was realised that day; as fast as row drooped over row, so did other rows spring up, propelled by a giant force behind.
— from My Lords of Strogue, Vol. 2 (of 3) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield

The green valley again rung to the unwonted roar of ordnance; and as the white cloth flew in shreds to the wind, under a rapid discharge of round shot, canister, and grape, amidst the crumbling of the rock, and the rush of the filling stones, the before despised sponge staves became a theme of eulogy to the monarch as well as to the gaping peasant.
— from The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis, Sir

Don't seem 'xactly nat'ral after ridin' de oder road so long!"
— from What Might Have Been Expected by Frank Richard Stockton