The sarsaparilla is the root of a prickly, climbing plant, allied to our common black bryony; the roots are dug by the Indians, and tied up in bundles of various lengths and sizes; but, as it is a very light cargo, it is necessary to form it into packages of a convenient and uniform size and length, for closer stowage;—these are cylindrical, generally of sixteen pounds each, and are about three and a half feet long and five or six inches in diameter, cut square and even at the ends, and wound round closely from end to end with the long flexible roots of a species of Pothos , which, growing on the tops of lofty trees, hang down often a hundred feet or more, and, when the outer bark is scraped off, are universally used for this purpose.
— from Travels on the Amazon by Alfred Russel Wallace

Perhaps they had never read it, or had used their fatal facility of calling an unpleasant statement a lie.
— from The Pope, the Kings and the People A History of the Movement to Make the Pope Governor of the World by a Universal Reconstruction of Society from the Issue of the Syllabus to the Close of the Vatican Council by William Arthur

“Most got yuh,” Mort said, and cursed, “and us standin’ around like bats.”
— from The Highflyers by Clarence Budington Kelland

CONSTITUENTS OF THE CARROT.—These are crystallizable and uncrystallizable sugar, a little starch, extractive, gluten, albumen, volatile oil, vegetable jelly, or pectin, saline matter, malic acid, and a peculiar crystallizable ruby-red neuter principle, without odour or taste, called carotin.
— from The Book of Household Management by Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton

The calculating counsel, so cruel and unexpected, strengthened, at last, the timid resolution.
— from Mariposilla: A Novel by Mary Stewart Daggett

He first preached at Carrickfergus, and ultimately settled at Larne, where he discharged his ministry with diligence and success.
— from Letters of Samuel Rutherford (Third Edition) by Samuel Rutherford