At Carew's time the miner was allowed to prospect freely upon "Common" or wastrel lands (since mostly usurped by landlords), and upon mineral discovery marked his boundaries, within which he was entitled to the vertical contents.
— from De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georg Agricola

"Shanks is a rogue," said Sir Philip Hastings, in a calm, equable tone; "and the two lawyers you have named bear the reputation of being learned and unscrupulous men.
— from The Man in Black: An Historical Novel of the Days of Queen Anne by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

“I’ve been looking at ’um, miss,” said Hannah, “sleeping like angels; there ain’t no difference that I can see; they look, as nigh as can be, both of an age.”
— from The Athelings; or, the Three Gifts. Vol. 2/3 by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

It happened to be "loose," and ushered me into a long dark entry, at the farther end of which a wide flight of heavy oak stairs led to the upper rooms in the rear of the building.
— from Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science, Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885 by Various

In the first place, all the writing on the freethinking side was done under peril of Blasphemy Laws, and under menace of all the calumny and ostracism that in Christian society follow on advanced heresy; while the orthodox side could draw on the entire clerical profession, over ten thousand strong, and trained for and pledged to defence of the faith.
— from A Short History of Freethought Ancient and Modern, Volume 2 of 2 Third edition, Revised and Expanded, in two volumes by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson

Our bodies are known, and answer in this world to such or such a name,—but as [Pg 48] to our inner selves , with real and awful meaning our walking bodies might be labeled, "An unknown man sleeps here!"
— from Vocal Expression: A Class-book of Voice Training and Interpretation by Katherine Jewell Everts

Thus Dana [50] says that: "The absence of Lamellibranchs in the Middle Cambrian, although present in both Lower and Upper, means the absence of fossils from the rocks, not of species from the faunas ."
— from Illogical Geology, the Weakest Point in the Evolution Theory by George McCready Price

Each saw plainly a happy, care-free young earth girl, upon her first trip into space, locked inside an ether-wall with an over-brained, under-conscienced human machine--a super-intelligent but lecherous and unmoral mechanism of flesh and blood, acknowledging no authority, ruled by nothing save his own scientific drivings and the almost equally powerful urges of his desires and passions!
— from Triplanetary by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith