Now, in wild countries, such a command is never disobeyed, except by a fool or a would-be suicide.
— from Bert Wilson at Panama by J. W. Duffield

The appearance of anything unusual, if, after contemplating it a moment, he concludes it not dangerous, excites his unbounded mirth and ridicule, and he snickers and chatters, hardly able to contain himself; now darting up the trunk of a tree and squealing in derision, then hopping into position on a limb and dancing to the music of his own cackle, and all for your special benefit.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various

Strain, if the liquid is satisfactory color; if not deep enough, add more coloring matter before straining.
— from Lowney's Cook Book Illustrated in Colors by Maria Willett Howard

Nevertheless it is advisable to separate this species of inferences from experience—whose certainty is not doubted except by the philosophers—from uncertain probabilities, as a class intermediate between the latter and demonstrative truth (demonstrations—proofs—probabilities).
— from History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg

" CHAPTER III Next day early, to the neglect of the city, Ben-Hur sought the house of Simonides.
— from Ben-Hur: A tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace

If it has a fault, it is in embracing too much, and consequently in not detailing enough, and in striding backwards and forwards from one set of princes to another, and from one subject to another; so that, without much historic knowledge, and without much memory, and much method in one’s memory, it is almost impossible not to be sometimes bewildered: nay, his own impatience to tell what he knows, makes the author, though commonly so explicit, not perfectly [239] clear in his expressions.
— from Horace Walpole and His World: Select Passages from His Letters by Horace Walpole

Aretius, ubi supra: Magistratus jugum non admittunt, timent honoribus, licentiam amant, &c. Vulgus quoque et pleba dissolutior: major para corruptissima est, &c. Interea non desperandum esse libenter fateor dabit posterior ætas tractabiliores forte animas, mitiora pectora, quam nostra habent secula.
— from The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by George Gillespie

What is true of the volume-ratios in which oxygen and hydrogen are actually found to combine, under ordinary conditions, is no doubt equally true of analogous instances, such as the union of hydrogen and chlorine to form hydrogen 81 chloride.
— from History of Chemistry, Volume 2 (of 2) From 1850 to 1910 by T. E. (Thomas Edward) Thorpe

The flowers are not conspicuous individually, nor does each individual flower produce much pollen; but the large heads of bloom attract numerous insects which climb about among the flowers in search of nectar, covering their bodies with pollen, and thus aiding the process of fertilisation.
— from Field and Woodland Plants by William S. Furneaux

Miss Reynolds began by insisting that "the slightest hint" of disapprobation on the part of Mrs. Montagu would "consign the work to oblivion"; then continued: I never did entertain any desire to publish it, tho I might to sell it.
— from An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Taste, and of the Origin of our Ideas of Beauty, etc. by Frances Reynolds