Some supplies have been chlorinated successfully for years but the principle of using chlorination as the first and last line of defence cannot be recommended.
— from Chlorination of Water by Joseph Race

The Arab had, in fact, so bent the branches and stems, and so connected them by means of strands of creepers, as to form a light ladder that spanned the last dozen feet of the descent.
— from Tom Willoughby's Scouts: A Story of the War in German East Africa by Herbert Strang

Please him with prayer; lest, if he frown, he confound all thy fortune and labour, like the drops of rain upon the sandy ground.
— from The Picture Gallery Explored Or, an account of various ancient customs and manners: interspersed with anecdotes and biographical sketches of eminent persons by Unknown

If such, however, were his intention, widely had he miscalculated his own powers, and fatally underrated the agility and strength of the stranger—a tall, thin, wiry man, well nigh six feet in height, broad shouldered, and deep chested, and thin flanked, and limbed like a Greek Athlete.
— from The Roman Traitor, Vol. 1 by Henry William Herbert

A running hound should be well born, and well grown of body, and should have great nostrils and [Pg 106] open, and a long snout, but not small, and great lips and well hanging down, and great eyes red or black, and a great forehead and great head, and large ears, well long and well hanging down, broad and near the head, a great neck, and a great breast and great shoulders, and great legs and strong, and not too long, and great feet, round and great claws, and the foot a little low, small flanks and long sides, a little pintel not long, small hanging ballocks and well trussed together, a good chine bone and great back, good thighs, and great hind legs and the hocks straight and not bowed, the tail great and high, and not cromping up on the back, but straight and a little cromping upward.
— from The Master of Game: The Oldest English Book on Hunting by of Norwich Edward