And while Rachel and her children were busy making corn-cake, and cooking ham and chicken, and hurrying on the et ceteras of the evening meal, George and his wife sat in their little room, with their arms folded about each other, in such talk as husband and wife have when they know that a few hours may part them forever.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

The second division consists of the nitrogenous materials, containing also carbon, hydrogen, a certain amount of oxygen, sulphur, and possibly other elements.
— from Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Accordingly the three men lifted him out of the cart, and carried him as carefully as they could upstairs, and laid him on a bed.
— from A Search For A Secret: A Novel. Vol. 2 by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

He will endeavour to treat the subject in the spirit of an impartial critic, and confine himself as closely as possible to such facts as illustrate the character of the progress, and give much encouragement for the future of a country even now only a little beyond the infancy of its material as well as intellectual development.
— from The Intellectual Development of the Canadian People: An Historical Review by John George Bourinot

A CHILD'S SONG OF CHRISTMAS A CHRISTMAS CAROL A CHRISTMAS HYMN A CHRYSALIS A CONSERVATIVE A CONTEMPLATION UPON FLOWERS
— from The Home Book of Verse — Volume 4 by Burton Egbert Stevenson

[283] From the statements of contemporaries we must conclude that John Cabot was a capable seaman and navigator, with a good knowledge of charts and cartography; he also constructed a globe to illustrate his voyages.
— from In Northern Mists: Arctic Exploration in Early Times (Volume 2 of 2) by Fridtjof Nansen

[ 571 ] 1 This article is largely based on a monograph contributed by Mr. H. R. Crosthwaite, Assistant Commissioner, Hoshangābād, and contains also extracts from a monograph by Mr. Ganga Prasād Khatri, Forest Divisional Officer, Betūl, and from the description of the Korkus given by Mr. (Sir Charles) Elliott in the Hoshangābād Settlement Report (1867), and by Major Forsyth in the Nimār Settlement Report (1868–69).
— from The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 3 by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell

Few, if any, brick mansion-houses of the fifteenth century exist, except in a dilapidated state; but Queen's College and Clare Hall at Cambridge, and part of Eton College, are subsisting witnesses to the durability of the material as it was then employed.
— from View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Henry Hallam