The free extremity of each crescent has a pillar , and there is a large double pillar where the two crescents meet.
— from American Addresses, with a Lecture on the Study of Biology by Thomas Henry Huxley

The reader will see that each Platonic composition has a place assigned to it in two classifications —
— from Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume 1 by George Grote

The young man noticed Rico and stopped his whistling to say, "Come here and play a tune if you can."
— from Heimatlos: Two stories for children, and for those who love children by Johanna Spyri

“Lack of imagination on the part of our customers,” he answered promptly, “a total inability to put themselves into our place, to realize that we have our lives to live just as they have theirs.
— from The Book of Business Etiquette by Nella Braddy Henney

ch have a perfect affinity: this is what could not happen: because man, essentially different by his temperament, who is found under circumstances completely dissimilar, must necessarily have a great diversity of ideas upon objects which each individual contemplates so variously.
— from The System of Nature, or, the Laws of the Moral and Physical World. Volume 2 by Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'

Anxiety, however, to reach Teherán and definitely map out my route to India overcame everything, even the temptation to defer a journey fraught with cold, hunger, and privation, and take it easy for a few days, with plenty of food and drink, to say nothing of cigars, books, and newspapers, in the snug cosy rooms of the Consulate.
— from A Ride to India across Persia and Baluchistán by Harry De Windt

This Description of the Condition of Conspirators has a Pomp and Terror in it, that perfectly astonishes.
— from Preface to the Works of Shakespeare (1734) by Mr. (Lewis) Theobald

“It will be all right,” Mopsey said, so decidedly that they would have been obliged to be satisfied, even if he had not added, “Friday night we’ll all come here an’ practise, an’ then I’ll tell you all about it.”
— from Left Behind; Or, Ten Days a Newsboy by James Otis

The free extremity of each crescent has a pillar , and there is a large double pillar where the two crescents meet; The whole structure is, as it were, imbedded in cement, which fills up the valleys, as in the upper grinders.
— from Lectures and Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley

The free extremity of each crescent has a pillar, and there is a large double pillar where the two crescents meet.
— from Lectures on Evolution Essay #3 from "Science and Hebrew Tradition" by Thomas Henry Huxley