On the side of the pond next my house a row of pitch pines, fifteen feet high, has been killed and tipped over as if by a lever, and thus a stop put to their encroachments; and their size indicates how many years have elapsed since the last rise to this height.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

The children soon gave them an opportunity of lingering behind a little, and then Adam said: “Will you contrive for me to walk out in the garden a bit with you this evening, if it keeps fine, Hetty?
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

dandum hordeum et furfurēs usque quaad erunt lactantēs , Varro R. R. 2, 7, 12, give them barley and bran as long as they are sucklings .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

It may be noted that this instrument had much the same shape as the culter , but culter is not a term applied by any Latin author to a surgical instrument, nor is cultellus , although the sixteenth-century translators of Aetius and Paulus Aegineta very frequently use the latter term.
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

According to the Twentieth Annual Report of the Building and Loan Association there are seventy-seven such organizations in Wisconsin.
— from The Wisconsin Magazine of History, Volume 1, 1917-1918 by Various

The lighter the better, as long as they are steady and secure.”
— from Girl Scouts at Dandelion Camp by Lillian Elizabeth Roy

Our Polly has been ill, but is now a great deal better, and laughs and talks as she used to.
— from Harper's Young People, September 6, 1881 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

"There!" said Violet at length, stepping back a little and taking a satisfied survey, "I think we have finished."
— from Elsie in the South by Martha Finley

Death-bed promises should be broken as lightly as they are seriously made.
— from Cheerful—By Request by Edna Ferber

Uncle Ben had not arrived yet; but he had evidently been there during the forenoon, for the boat had been taken from her moorings, and was now secured by a line attached to a stake driven in the sand.
— from The Boat Club; or, The Bunkers of Rippleton by Oliver Optic

Are we to continue to struggle, as so many good men struggled in the first dozen centuries of Christendom—spilling oceans of [Pg 382] blood, wasting mountains of treasure—to achieve what is at bottom a logical absurdity; to accomplish something which, when accomplished, can avail us nothing, and which, if it could avail us anything, would condemn the nations of the world to never-ending bloodshed and the constant defeat of all those aims which men, in their sober hours, know to be alone worthy of sustained endeavor?
— from The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage by Norman Angell

No special trades or professions can be singled out for them; but, as long as they are set to work in a direction which provides them with an outlet for a nicely balanced judgment and a capacity for what might be termed the detective instinct, they should succeed admirably.
— from Everybody's Book of Luck by Anonymous

M. Godefroy’s testimony being at length attended to, another soldier was dispatched to D’Iago’s party, who were not yet embarked, with notice that one of us affirmed himself to be a resident in Monte Video.
— from Travels in the interior of Brazil with notices on its climate, agriculture, commerce, population, mines, manners, and customs: and a particular account of the gold and diamond districts. by John Mawe