However, we had but this and the next night at our disposal, and the knowledge that we must soon cease our delicious orgies nerved us all to increased efforts.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

On the 27th of September a circumstance occurred deserving of note.
— from Godfrey Morgan: A Californian Mystery by Jules Verne

Now, where were you stationed when you first came on duty on November 24, 1963?
— from Warren Commission (12 of 26): Hearings Vol. XII (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

Centers of dispersion, of North American Pleistocene glaciers, 298 .
— from Earth Features and Their Meaning An Introduction to Geology for the Student and the General Reader by William Herbert Hobbs

One cause of defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo, 472 - 3 .
— from Military Career of Napoleon the Great An Account of the Remarkable Campaigns of the "Man of Destiny"; Authentic Anecdotes of the Battlefield as Told by the Famous Marshals and Generals of the First Empire by Montgomery B. Gibbs

75 The battle resulted in the capture, or destruction, of nearly the whole French fleet.
— from Ancient and Modern Ships, Part 1: Wooden Sailing Ships by Holmes, George Charles Vincent, Sir

M.D. Surgeon of H.M.S. Sulphur:— "During the three years that H.M.S. Sulphur was employed on that station (Western Australia) not a single death, and very few important cases of disease occurred, notwithstanding the very great exposure of her men.
— from The Bushman — Life in a New Country by Edward Wilson Landor

Similarly the slow combustion or decay of nitrogenous [Pg 119] organic matter, which constantly takes place all over the earth's surface, may be regarded as another source of this form of combined nitrogen.
— from Manures and the principles of manuring by Charles Morton Aikman

"Wrong thought as the real cause of disease, opens new avenues of information; but we continue to explore and discover.
— from The Right Knock A Story by Helen Van-Anderson

But since I have in making the Experiment concerning our Contest; chosen a Matter which penetrates the Resistance of the water; and in all figures descendes to the Bottome, the Adversaries can charge me with no defect; yea, I have propounded so much a more excellent Method than they, in as much as I have removed all other Causes, of descending or not descending to the Bottom, and retained the only sole and pure variety of Figures, demonstrating that the same Figures all descende with the only alteration of a Grain in weight: which Grain being removed, they return to float and swim; it is not true, therefore, (resuming the Example by them introduced) that I have gon{e} about to experiment the efficacy of Acuteness, in cutting with Matters unable to cut, but with Matters proportioned to our occasion, since they are subjected to no other variety, then that alone which depends on the Figure more or less acute.
— from A Discourse Presented to the Most Serene Don Cosimo II., Great Duke of Tuscany, Concerning the Natation of Bodies Vpon, and Submersion In, the Water. by Galileo Galilei

“What the ladies say is, 'Better produce a play that will be cordially damned rather than deprive us of our chance of displaying our new dresses.'” “Heavens!” cried Sir Francis, “I had not thought of the new dresses.
— from A Georgian Pageant by Frank Frankfort Moore