Just then Mr. Cave's step-son re-entered the shop from, the inner room—he had come home a minute or so before Mr. Cave—and he was blaspheming freely.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

In plain prose, here are four whales as well known to the students of Cetacean History as Marius or Sylla to the classic scholar.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

It will be noticed that Chief Justice Holt in Coggs v. Bernard states the liability as applicable to all bailees for reward, exercising a public employment, and mentions common hoymen and masters of ships alongside of, not as embraced under, common carriers.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Is it not quite absurd, then, to call him a man of supreme intellect?
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

Word of what was going forward had drawn the settlers to the Council House and much of Smith’s harangue, delivered in a voice strong with anger, had penetrated to them.
— from Captain John Smith by C. H. Forbes-Lindsay

What tends to confirm them in this erroneous opinion is a passage in the same Exodus: "Take of pure myrrh five hundred shekels, and of sweet cinnamon half as much; of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty shekels; of cassia five hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; and of olive-oil a ton, to form an ointment to annoint the tabernacle"; and whosoever anointed himself or any stranger with a similar composition, was to be put to death.
— from A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 09 by Voltaire

We heard that Schweitzer-Schmalz had, at first, declined the proffered offer; but when he found the election was not to cost him any money, only some little condes
— from Waldfried: A Novel by Berthold Auerbach

In this, however, they were wrong: scarcely had they proceeded more than a league when Gilbert, striking his foot against a root, stumbled, and as he recovered himself, turning his head he saw a large band of Indians appearing above the brow of a slight hill they had crossed half a mile or so back.
— from The Settlers: A Tale of Virginia by William Henry Giles Kingston

You will be inclined to consider him a man of sense, for he admires Mistress Goel's beauty, and applauds her devotion to her father, whom he regards as lunatic, most especially because he desires to give her in marriage to this Vliet.
— from The MS. in a Red Box by John A. (John Arthur) Hamilton

Many mistakes were made, it is true, yet it is very doubtful if human beings could have achieved more or succeeded where they failed.
— from Bolshevism: The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy by John Spargo

These soon became so serious that a league was formed to crush him, and Maurice of Saxony led an army against his former comrade.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

The instances cited here are merely of scientific and historical interest, and are not of practical importance as far as fur dyeing methods are concerned.
— from Principles and Practice of Fur Dressing and Fur Dyeing by William E. Austin