Such doings may be lined with religion, but outside they have a nasty, dog-in-the-manger look.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Surgery being likewise a branch of the healing art, no doubt also differed in the two countries, in a similar degree.
— from Personal Sketches of His Own Times, Vol. 3 (of 3) by Barrington, Jonah, Sir

Thousands of acres which were once the bed of the harbor are now densely populated.
— from Peculiarities of American Cities by Willard W. Glazier

He was the only boy of the house, and no doubt he had been petted and spoiled, and taught to think that everything was to give way to him.
— from Lady William by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

Porters and waiters asked what had become of "the Hun," and no denial could fully convince them.
— from Cavalry of the Clouds by Alan Bott

But last, at bottom of the helm, Acestes' name did cling, Who had the heart to try the toil amid the youthful rout.
— from The Æneids of Virgil, Done into English Verse by Virgil

The beef is dead ox, and the hay is dead grass; but the "organic molecules" of the beef or the hay are not dead, but are ready to manifest their vitality as soon as the bovine or herbaceous shrouds in which they are imprisoned are rent by the macerating action of water.
— from Discourses: Biological & Geological Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley

And that is why most of the people who came to ask her for spells never got so far as the pink cottage at all, for they found what they wanted at the bottom of the hill; and no doubt that saved everybody a great deal of trouble.
— from The Other Side of the Sun: Fairy Stories by Evelyn Sharp