It hath many long leaves spread upon the ground, finely cut, and divided into many small parts.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

He is as miserly as Harpagon; and the idea of our laying his kitchen and wine-cellar under contribution will put him in such a humor, that he will have no scruple in condemning a dozen innocent men, so that he may reach his country-house in time to prevent the pillage.’
— from The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1 by Various

We peeped into the cupboards and drawers in Miss Sandal's room, but everything was grey or brown, not at all the sort of thing to dress up for children of the Sunny South in.
— from New Treasure Seekers; Or, The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune by E. (Edith) Nesbit

"Seemed like something I had dreamed, when he talked like that, and I could almost do it myself," she said to Harold when describing the particulars of her interview with Mr. Tracy, and her tongue fell naturally into the language of her babyhood.
— from Gretchen: A Novel by Mary Jane Holmes

A set of organs peculiar to fish and known as the pyloric caeca are absent in Cyclostomata and Dipnoi, in most Selachii and in Amia, but present, in numbers ranging from one to nearly two hundred, in the vast majority of fish.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

But then I felt too chilled, and determined I must stay at home and have a brew of gruel.
— from The Wheels of Time by Florence L. (Florence Louisa) Barclay

They censure or applaud in a body; they consult and deliberate in more select parties; they take or give an ascendant as individuals; and numbers are by this means fitted to act in company, and to preserve their communities, before any formal distribution of office is made.
— from An Essay on the History of Civil Society, Eighth Edition by Adam Ferguson