This light tells with our tongue, and beares o r erro r .
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

The conductor of the light [146] railway had gathered a bunch of rosemary en route , and he now approached the funicular and bestowed his offering upon Peachy, who happened to be sitting nearest to the end.
— from The Jolliest School of All by Angela Brazil

Wilton's pulses throbbed at the idea; once certain of himself and his motives, he felt that he could break down any barrier of reserve Ella Rivers might erect against him, and, at least, ascertain what were his chances, or if he had any.
— from Ralph Wilton's weird by Mrs. Alexander

These Arabs were all Bedouins, or nomadic Arabs belonging to tribes inhabiting the deserts that skirt the Delta and valley of the Nile, and, possessing all the characteristics of their race, were nothing more than restless, roving bands of robbers, ever ready to prey upon all unhappy enough to fall into their hands.
— from Bonaparte in Egypt and the Egyptians of To-day by Abdullah Browne

The Virginia Bill of Rights Election Requirements, Offices and Procedures Legislative, Executive and Judicial Departments
— from Hallowed Heritage: The Life of Virginia by Dorothy Margaret Torpey

" In a letter written by Foster in 1911 and on file in the office of the United States District Attorney in Chicago, Foster said: "I am satisfied from my observation that the only way for an I. W. W. to have the workers adopt and practice the principles of revolutionary unionism, which I take it is its mission, is to give up the attempt to create a new labor movement, turn itself into a propaganda league, get into the organized labor movement, and by building up better fighting machinery within the old unions than these possessed by our reactionary enemies, revolutionize these unions, even as our French syndicalist fellow-workers have so successfully done.
— from The Red Conspiracy by Joseph J. Mereto

The week of prayer in January has in other years been the beginning of real, earnest revival effort.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 35, No. 2, February, 1881 by Various

Arago, Ampère, and Savary, not having themselves published (that I am aware of) their admission of the results, and as some have not been able to obtain them, M. Colladon's conclusions have been occasionally doubted or denied; and an important point with me was to establish their accuracy, or remove them entirely from the body of received experimental research.
— from Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 by Michael Faraday

—Owing to the shell not spreading much at the base, new folds in the walls are much seldomer formed, and therefore the external longitudinal ribs ( i. e. the terminal transversely elongated loops), are much seldomer divided, than in C. balænaris or reginæ ; even rather large specimens sometimes having only the original eighteen folds.
— from A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 2 of 2) The Balanidæ, (or Sessile Cirripedes); the Verrucidæ, etc., etc. by Charles Darwin

Just as I was going down, I caught sight of the girl tearing away from a box of garbage on the curb-stone; and when order having been restored, by which lofty statement I mean to say when your humble servant had regained his equilibrium, I awoke to the fact that she had effectually disappeared, I hurried to that box and succeeded in finding hanging to it a bit of rag easily recognized as a piece of the old calico frock of nameless color which I had been following a moment before.
— from A Strange Disappearance by Anna Katharine Green