In fact, in every age the social conditions are so exemplified in costume, that to produce a sixteenth-century play in fourteenth-century attire, or vice versa , would make the performance seem unreal because untrue.
— from Intentions by Oscar Wilde

The annual expenses consist in the seed, in the wear and tear of instruments of husbandry, and in the annual maintenance of the farmer's servants and cattle, and of his family too, so far as any part of them can be considered as servants employed in cultivation.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

The counsel who defended her at the trial was instructed to hammer hard at the sympathies of the jury: he went head over ears into the miseries of her past career, and shocked everybody in court in the most workman-like manner.
— from Armadale by Wilkie Collins

He then mingled with the company and soon entered into conversation with the loquacious priest.
— from The Rebellion in the Cevennes, an Historical Novel. Vol. I. by Ludwig Tieck

Sometimes the chapels are square, especially in Cistercian churches.
— from Mediaeval Church Vaulting by Clarence Ward

The day arrived that Doctor Phlebotonizem was to open, and he found customers began to call , and sure enough, in comes a large keg, direct through from the States, to his address; the freight bill on it was pretty considerable, but Joe out and paid it, rejoicing to think that now he was all right, and that if the proprietors of gold dust and the lumbago, or any of the various ills set forth in his catalogue of human woes, had spare change, he would soon find them out.
— from The Humors of Falconbridge A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes by Falconbridge

Hence, although the organic matter of manure and vegetable substances may be altered in form , by the use of lime, it can escape (except in very poor soils) only as it is taken up by roots to feed the crop, and such exhaustion is certainly profitable; still, in order that the fertility of the soil may be maintained , enough of organic manure should be applied, to make up for the amount taken from the soil by the crop, after liberation for its use by the action of the lime.
— from The Elements of Agriculture A Book for Young Farmers, with Questions Prepared for the Use of Schools by George E. (George Edwin) Waring

He simply waited for the raking to come, and, sure enough, it came.
— from The Asses of Balaam by Randall Garrett

In bodily strength, in numbers, your countrymen are superior; even in courage, and the contempt of danger, they are probably not inferior to their enemies; but such are the fatal effects of military skill and discipline, that I dread the event of a combat with such an army and such a leader.'
— from The History of Sandford and Merton by Thomas Day

They are brimful of thoughtfulness and practical wisdom; always genial, often humorous, they make up a table book of aphorism and apologue, of colloquia, and short essay, independently conceived and gracefully expressed—which among living writers it would be difficult to parallel.
— from British Quarterly Review, American Edition, Vol. LIII January and April, 1871 by Various

“Traveling doctors,” who never saw a materia medica, infest the country and sell every imaginable cure, as well as cures which are not imaginable.
— from The Red Cross in Peace and War by Clara Barton

Billings extended the capsule and Slade examined it curiously.
— from El Diablo by Brayton Norton