Not a Moment should be lost, and there is no other Step to be taken, but that of giving the Bark continually, as directed § 260 , to prevent the succeeding Fits.
— from Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David) Tissot

As to the hills that approach the river, the slopes (shales, overlain by what looks like stratified mud and silt rock) are mostly of recent exposure, and have doubtless been receding slowly through erosion, so that the bank line along them is not old; and their valleys are few, narrow, and were higher formerly as well as more extended toward where the river flowed then.
— from Anthropological Survey in Alaska by Aleš Hrdlička

"Hobson said positively that Aunt Emily would not see me before lunch, and there is no one else that I need go to see quite so very immediately."
— from Hildegarde's Harvest by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

Given pure blood to paint such a skin with varying emotions, enough wind to ravel out a few locks of such hair, the proportions of a Venus and perfect health, any girl could rest very well assured of being looked at twice, if not oftener.
— from A Daughter of the Land by Gene Stratton-Porter

See each cell, and each of these beautiful little arches; there is not one unlike its neighbour.
— from The Story of a Robin by Agnes S. Underwood