In patients in whom the bristling of the hair is extreme, the disease is generally permanent and mortal; but in others, in whom the bristling is moderate, as soon as they recover their health of mind the hair recovers its smoothness.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

He was found at the bottom of the hole, in eight feet of water, as I have said.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

The Improved Dwellings Association put up its block of thirteen houses in East Seventy-second Street nine years ago.
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

One by one they hurry in, each striving to displace the foregoing—none staying for an instant,—till the brain reels under the confusion.
— from Confessions of a Thug by Meadows Taylor

“He’s had about the worst bat on the head I ever saw a a man git an’ live, to start with.
— from The Return of the O'Mahony: A Novel by Harold Frederic

As a result, many a business, lacking room in which to work a large force of folders, has been obliged to hire its extensive circularizing done outside of the office.
— from Cyclopedia of Commerce, Accountancy, Business Administration, v. 01 (of 10) by American School of Correspondence

The chances are, from what I saw, that this is a fair example of what the average digger obtains; but it must be remembered that no information voluntarily given by the Burmese on this head is ever reliable.
— from Notes of a Journey on the Upper Mekong, Siam by H. Warington (Herbert Warington) Smyth

Have the patient turn head on one side so that the back of the head is exposed.
— from Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts by Girl Scouts of the United States of America

It was disappointing, this bareness of the horizon in every direction; for he felt that his companion and charge must be intensely anxious to exchange into something that would be taking her either back to her home, or out to her friends; and he was keenly desirous to relieve her anxiety at the earliest possible moment.
— from Dick Leslie's Luck: A Story of Shipwreck and Adventure by Harry Collingwood

His recent disastrous success had convinced him that neither Ithaca nor any other abode of civilization was a safe place to continue his experiments, but it was not until their cruising had brought them among the multitudinous islands of the East Indies that the plan occurred to him that he finally adopted—a plan the outcome of which could he then have foreseen would have sent him scurrying to the safety of his own country with the daughter who was to bear the full brunt of the horrors it entailed.
— from The Monster Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs

No, he’s one of the big ones ... though he is eating pâté just now.
— from The Later Life by Louis Couperus

Having laid bare the tendons of the fingers, on the back of the hand, I established an arc between that region and the spinal marrow, and obtained strong contractions in the fingers and in the whole hand.
— from An Account of the Late Improvements in Galvanism With a Series of Curious and Interesting Experiments Performed Before the Commissioners of the French National Institute, and Repeated Lately in the Anatomical Theatres of London by Giovanni Aldini

In the former, we have the mountains covered with patchy lights, which being of equal intensity whether near or distant, confuse all the distances together; while the eye, perceiving that the light falls so as to give details of solid form, yet finding nothing but insipid and formless spaces displayed by it, is compelled to suppose that the whole body of the hill is equally monotonous and devoid of character; and the effect upon it is not one whit more impressive and agreeable than might be received from a group of sand-heaps, washed into uniformity by recent rain.
— from Modern Painters, Volume 1 (of 5) by John Ruskin