The Jew was in the hold: the French gentleman was lying on the deck so ill, that I could observe nothing concerning him, except the affectionate attentions of his servant to him.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The question, therefore, is, when could any community of native Christians have existed in India who would bury in dolmens and use the cross as their emblems?
— from Rude Stone Monuments in All Countries: Their Age and Uses by James Fergusson

The assemblage of villages which compose the capital of Nousreddin, contains houses enough for a population of five or six thousand souls, but I do not believe that the actual population of those villages is so great.
— from A Narrative of the Expedition to Dongola and Sennaar Under the Command of His Excellence Ismael Pasha, undertaken by Order of His Highness Mehemmed Ali Pasha, Viceroy of Egypt, By An American In The Service Of The Viceroy by George Bethune English

[Pg 162] whether the mechanical laws are broken directly or indirectly (by processes of heat), and convinced of the existence of a universal law-ruled connexion of nature, Carnot here excludes for the first time from the province of general physics the possibility of a perpetual motion.
— from Popular scientific lectures by Ernst Mach