As the cylinder revolves, the recorder is shifted continuously along by a leading screw having one hundred or more threads to the inch cut on it, so that it traces a continuous helical groove from one end of the wax cylinder to the other.
— from How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Archibald Williams

He shut his eyes, but after a few moments opened them and gazed upon the camp of Cope, covering also but a little space, so small were the armies.
— from Foes by Mary Johnston

Its color is grayish-brown and its limbs slight; the hair is coarse and brittle, almost like spines.
— from The Middle Kingdom, Volume 1 (of 2) A Survey of the Geography, Government, Literature, Social Life, Arts, and History of the Chinese Empire and its Inhabitants by S. Wells (Samuel Wells) Williams

Peter of Colfax had passed through the vaults beneath his castle and, by a long subterranean passage, had reached the quarters of some priests without the lines of Norman of Torn.
— from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs

The largest and finest of this second type was the First Church at Boston, a large square brick building, built in 1713, and which was used till 1808.
— from The Historical Child Paidology; The Science of the Child by Oscar Chrisman

He could scarcely wait for an opportunity to speak to Callum alone, but at last supper was over and the chores all done; and he crept out to the barn where he had seen the young man disappear.
— from The Silver Maple by Mary Esther Miller MacGregor

She said to herself, proudly, that God's handiwork was the inner man, the inner woman, the naked creature animated by a living soul; that all other adjuncts were but man's clothing for the creature; all others, whether stitched by tailors or contrived by kings.
— from Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope

Her lips opened once or twice as if to speak, then closed again; but at last she said simply, "You've paid lots
— from At the Little Brown House by Ruth Brown MacArthur

colonists may be transported to England and tried there upon accusations for treasons, and mis prisons and concealments of treasons committed in the colonies, and by a late statute, such trials have been directed in cases therein mentioned.
— from The Life of George Washington: A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Editions by John Marshall