By some mismanagement, I conclude she was run on board of by one of the enemy's ships, and dismasted.
— from The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey

Then, began one of those extraordinary scenes with which the populace sometimes gratified their fickleness, or their better impulses towards generosity and mercy, or which they regarded as some set-off against their swollen account of cruel rage.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

But these fishermen generally don't live to advanced age: their vision weakens, ulcers break out on their eyes, sores form on their bodies, and some are even stricken with apoplexy on the ocean floor."
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

But others of the earlier Stoics admit right reason as one criterion of the truth; for instance, this is the opinion of Posidonius, and is advanced by him in his essay on Criteria.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

Looking to America: in the northern half, ice-borne fragments of rock have been observed on the eastern side of the continent, as far south as latitude 36 and 37 degrees, and on the shores of the Pacific, where the climate is now so different, as far south as latitude 46 degrees.
— 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

Looking to America; in the northern half, ice-borne fragments of rock have been observed on the eastern side as far south as lat.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

Between the tabernacles are four angels, each accompanied by one of the evangelistic symbols.
— from Needlework As Art by Alford, Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess

But one or two effects struck me which perhaps are worth briefly naming, and I will throw into the lot a poetical figure, which you may use in your next song....
— from The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 by Various

Further advance was held up by one of the enemy's strong points known as the "Orchard."
— from From the St. Lawrence to the Yser with the 1st Canadian brigade by Frederic C. Curry

The house itself had been built by one of the early settlers, and Warrington had admired it since boyhood.
— from Half a Rogue by Harold MacGrath

A spiny shrub, with rather slender, willowly, drooping branches, and sharp spines; young growth light green, of pleasant and distinct odor when bruised; leaves 7.5 to 10 centimeters long, 3.5 to 5 centimeters broad, ovate oblong to elliptical, serrate to crenate, dull green above; base rounded to broadly acute; apex frequently notched; petiole 6 to 19 millimeters long with a narrow wing margin; flowers solitary or in cymes to 4, terminal or axillary, 28 to 35 millimeters across; calyx rather large, cupped; petals 4 to 5, white with a trace of purple on the outside; stamens unequal, 28 to 32, more or less united; ovary large, oblong, 12 to 13 loculed; style not distinct as in C. aurantium but rather similar to that in C. medica , a trifle more slender than the ovary; fruit 5 centimeters long, 4 to 4.5 centimeters across, roundish to roundish oblong, lemon yellow, smooth; skin thin; pulp pale green, juicy, sharply acid, sometimes almost bitter; juice cells long, slender and pointed; seeds very numerous, small and plump, polyembryonic.
— from The Philippine Agricultural Review. Vol. VIII, First Quarter, 1915 No. 1 by Various