Assuming that the climates of many parts of the earth are subject to a secular cycle, with contrasted phases every 10,500 years, we should expect to find records of the cycle in the sediments.
— from The Popular Science Monthly, August, 1900 Vol. 57, May, 1900 to October, 1900 by Various

Run over the statesmen that have figured in England since the accession of the present family, and we may doubt whether there be one, with the exception perhaps of the Duke of Newcastle, who would have been a worthy colleague of the council of Mr. Perceval, or the early cabinet of Lord Liverpool.
— from Coningsby; Or, The New Generation by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

She had not been in this posture long, before a cunning old Mouse peeped over the edge of the [53] shelf, and spoke thus:—'Aha, my good friend, are you there!
— from Æsop's Fables, Embellished with One Hundred and Eleven Emblematical Devices. by Aesop

It filled me with a kind of terror to think that I might be prevented from carrying out my part of the evening's entertainment, so you will see I was well worked up to it by this time.
— from Thieves' Wit: An Everyday Detective Story by Hulbert Footner

Consisting of Miscellaneous pieces, on the events of the times, interspersed with others on moral, satirical, and political subjects."
— from The Poems of Philip Freneau, Poet of the American Revolution. Volume 1 (of 3) by Philip Morin Freneau

This armorial bearing is carved on many parts of the edifice.
— from The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 2 (of 3) or Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac by William Hone

Mary straightened one of the tall white candles in the candelabrum of many prisms on the end of the mantelpiece near which she stood.
— from Miss Gibbie Gault by Kate Langley Bosher

Plans for the execution of this idea may have been the cause of many of her past actions, but having been initiated, after the peace of Amiens, into the conspiracy of the men who expected to make the 18th Brumaire recoil upon the First Consul, she had thenceforth subordinated her faculties and her hatred to their vast and well laid scheme, which was to strike at Bonaparte externally by the vast coalition of Russia, Austria, and Prussia (vanquished at Austerlitz) and internally by the coalition of men politically opposed to each other, but united by their common hatred of a man whose death some of them were meditating, like Laurence herself, without shrinking from the word assassination.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

Those who are acquainted with the immense chain of mischief produced on the earth by erroneous systems of superstition, will acknowledge the importance of opposing to them systems more accordant with truth, schemes drawn from Nature, sciences founded on experience.
— from The System of Nature, or, the Laws of the Moral and Physical World. Volume 1 by Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'