"Cellars and pantries and closets don't make a HOME.
— from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

As we had no desire to draw the attention of the Indians to our proceedings, we stumbled along in the dark until we had gone round several curves and penetrated a considerable distance into the cavern.
— from The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

Protestantism being, intrinsically, the nursery of rationalism, was necessarily a diminution of Christianity, and produced a corresponding diminution of liberty, both personal and civil.
— from The Religious Persecution in France 1900-1906 by J. Napier (Jane Napier) Brodhead

[322] in charging the condenser, and produces a corresponding diminution in the spark at the contact-breaker.
— from Heroes of Science: Physicists by William Garnett

For each column two chairs are placed a convenient distance apart, facing one another, with a knife and a bowl half full of peanuts on one, and an empty bowl on the other.
— from Camping For Boys by H. W. (Henry William) Gibson

Supposing the traveller, then, to start from Cairo, after inspecting the pyramids and other sights near that city, he can, by application to an agent on the spot, procure a boat, well supplied with provisions, &c., and proceed a considerable distance up the Nile.
— from The Overland Guide-book A complete vade-mecum for the overland traveller, to India viâ Egypt. by Barber, James, active 1837-1839

There he certainly did not find Coel, or Cole, a reigning sovereign, but he might very possibly have found a "merry old soul" of an innkeeper, who vowed that he was descended from Cunobelin, and possessed a charming daughter.
— from Through East Anglia in a Motor Car by James Edmund Vincent

He skilfully hinted that Jeffreys read Aeschylus with him sometimes; and once, as a crowning argument, produced a complete “dodge,” perfected and mechanically clever, “which,” he asserted, “Jeff made me stick to till I’d done.”
— from A Dog with a Bad Name by Talbot Baines Reed