Cicely saw a small cluster of diamonds, a ring that she might have worn herself.
— from Whitewash by Horace Annesley Vachell

He came on deck and returned the skipper’s glasses without a word, and then started forward, but Zachary Green stopped him.
— from The Wind-Jammers by T. Jenkins (Thornton Jenkins) Hains

The moment they undertake either to create or destroy a religion, the sign is unmistakable that this intoxicated ambition has begun to work.
— from Studies of Christianity; Or, Timely Thoughts for Religious Thinkers by James Martineau

“I require,” answered Talebard-Talebardon, “the tribunal to forbid the lord of Anbiez henceforth to fish or to lay seines beyond the rocks of Castrembaou; I require that the said lord be commanded to pay to the said community, under the claim of damages and restitution, the sum of two thousand pounds; I require that the said lord be notified that, if he again lay nets and seines in that part of the cove which does not belong to him, the said community shall have the right to remove and destroy by force the said nets and seines, making the lord of Anbiez alone responsible for the disorders which may follow the exercise of this right.”
— from The Knight of Malta by Eugène Sue

a l l l a l o a a a a a l a l a For convenience of description and reference, the successive entries in the specimen index have been numbered from 1 to 100, but that is no part of the system: those figures would be replaced in a real index by names and addresses.
— from Finger Prints by Francis Galton

A few dog-fish ( Acanthias and Mastelus ), three or four feet long, now fell victims to their tyranny, the porpoises seizing them by their tails, and swimming off with and shaking them in a manner scarcely conducive to their comfort or dignified appearance, reminding the spectator of a large dog worrying a rat. . . . .
— from Animal Intelligence The International Scientific Series, Vol. XLIV. by George John Romanes

The pilot descended from his lugger into his little boat, rowed alongside, and came on deck; a rough, tanned sailor, clad in flushing, and in build and manner might have passed for Robarts' twin brother.
— from Hard Cash by Charles Reade

Gait, Smith, Harrison, Wilson and Tompkins, were appointed to examine into the causes of disease and report the same to the Trustees, together with the mode or practicability of removing the same.
— from The History of Louisville, from the Earliest Settlement till the Year 1852 by Ben Casseday