These individual differences generally affect what naturalists consider unimportant parts; but I could show, by a long catalogue of facts, that parts which must be called important, whether viewed under a physiological or classificatory point of view, sometimes vary in the individuals of the same species.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

It helps also hoarseness of the voice, and diseases of the breast and lungs, caused by heat, or sharp salt humours, and the pleurisy also.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

Only be a loving child to me in my age, and bear with my whims and fancies; and you will do more for an old woman whose prime of life was not so happy or conciliating as it might have been, than ever that old woman did for you.’
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Light bombers and liaison craft in support of EUSAK dropped both leaflet bombs and bundles on tactical targets.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

In adopting the criterion of knowledge laid down by a literary culture, aloof from the practical needs of the mass of men, the educational advocates of scientific education put themselves at a strategic disadvantage.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

This was beside a lone copsewood, wherein heaps of white chips strewn upon the leafy ground showed that woodmen had been faggoting and making hurdles during the day.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

Jack looked at his body and limbs critically.
— from The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

Lady Dedlock sits before him looking him through, with the same dark shade upon her face, in the same attitude even to the holding of the screen, with her lips a little apart, her brow a little contracted, but for the moment dead.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

But it is only by remaining collected, and refusing to lend himself to the point of view of the practical man, that the critic can do the practical man any service; and it is only by the greatest sincerity in pursuing his own course, and by at last convincing even the practical man of his sincerity, that he can escape misunderstandings which perpetually threaten him.
— from Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold by Matthew Arnold

ning went together down to the Widow Hopkins's, whose residence seemed in danger of being a little crowded,—for
— from The Guardian Angel by Oliver Wendell Holmes

I've become a little child again in God's hands, with full confidence in His love and wisdom, and a growing trust that whatever He decides for me will be best and kindest.
— from Carry On: Letters in War-Time by Coningsby Dawson

First boil them in water and salt, then boil some parsley, sage, two or three eggs hard, chop them; then have a few thin slices of fine manchet, and stew all together, but break not the slices of bread; stew them with some of the broth wherein the chickens boil, some large mace, butter, a little white-wine or vinegar, with a few barberries or grapes; dish up the chickens on the sauce, and run them over with sweet butter and lemon cut like dice, the peel cut like small lard, and boil a little peel with the chickens.
— from The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery by Robert May

Guignol expressed admiration for the weird junk-sculptures that adorned each landing, made by a local craftswoman and installed by the landlord.
— from Makers by Cory Doctorow

Ten years after the battle of Niagara, Major Worth was breveted a lieutenant colonel, and when in 1832 the ordnance corps was established, he became one of its majors.
— from Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 5. May 1848 by Various

By a lucky chance, I don’t know a man in the Walmoden Cuirassiers.
— from Lord Kilgobbin by Charles James Lever

And although their elaborate entries in ledgers never became any less cryptic, it did give me the opportunity to mingle with those outside the editorial department.
— from Behind the News: Voices from Goa's Press by Various

The place was next infested by a lawless community of contrabandists and banditti, who made it, for a long period, their headquarters,
— from Due West; Or, Round the World in Ten Months by Maturin Murray Ballou