Surely it must be real, universal, eternal.” No; be sure there is far more originality (in the common sense of the word), and far less (in the true sense of the word), than we fancy; and that it is a paltry and shallow doctrine which represents each succeeding school as merely the puppets and dupes of the preceding.
— from Alexandria and Her Schools Four Lectures Delivered at the Philosophical Institution, Edinburgh by Charles Kingsley

The sail, however, can be stretched to its full extent or only [80] partially, or it may be rolled up, exposing nothing but the masts to the force of the wind.
— from Boat-Building and Boating by Daniel Carter Beard

And, leaving her friends appeased by this sufficient but rather unexpected excuse, Nathalie hurried into a public droschky, and was presently flying through the streets towards the Petersburg station—and Ivan.
— from The Genius by Margaret Horton Potter