Many, more fell in their nature, though less keen in their appetites for gold, traversed the tranquil country of New England, scenting the homely purses which hung in the smoky corner of peaceful cottages, into which the solitary dollar had been dropped with religious punctuality every week, perhaps every month only, by the hand of the provident father, from the time when the first birth under his roof gladdened his heart.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 3 (of 16) by United States. Congress

An' this boy has been down to the jayhawkers' camp an' knows the lay of the land all [Pg 74] around there; an' when I join the captain an' company the boy is to guide us all to the camp, or nigh enough so that the captain can string the company all around 'em; an' as soon as it's light enough we'll close in on 'em an' make sure that nary one gits away.
— from The Wolf Hunters: A Story of the Buffalo Plains by Robert Morris Peck

where the day Springs from the gems of Circassy— O! nothing earthly save the thrill Of melody in woodland rill— Or (music of the passion-hearted) Joy's voice so peacefully departed That like the murmur in the shell, Its echo dwelleth and will dwell— O! nothing of the dross of ours— Yet all the beauty—all the flowers That list our Love, and deck our bowers— Adorn yon world afar, afar— The wandering star.
— from The Complete Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe Including Essays on Poetry by Edgar Allan Poe

In bitter conflicts between two colonies of nearly equal strength the tenacity of the struggle and with it the will to conquer increases till one of the parties is definitively overpowered.
— from Ants and Some Other Insects: An Inquiry Into the Psychic Powers of These Animals by Auguste Forel

Pores subregular, circular, of nearly equal size, twice as broad as the bars.
— from Report on the Radiolaria Collected by H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-1876, Second Part: Subclass Osculosa; Index Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-76, Vol. XVIII by Ernst Haeckel

The most recent traveler (for those who composed Commodore Perry’s expedition can hardly be said to come under that denomination) is Captain Golownin, and he had opportunities for close observation not equaled since the times of the early writers.
— from The History of Prostitution: Its Extent, Causes, and Effects throughout the World by William W. Sanger

It is not our intention here to seek to provide a differential diagnosis between tic and the various conditions usually classed as myoclonus, and that for two reasons: in the first place, we cannot admit that the latter form a distinct clinical or nosographical entity, since the term myoclonus seems simply to be an abbreviation for clonic muscular convulsion, and is a symptom rather than a clinical syndrome;
— from Tics and Their Treatment by Henry Meige

One Mormon woman wrote me from Mexico to say that she had exiled herself there with her husband and his two plural wives, and that she felt she had worked out sufficient atonement for all her descendants; yet she saw girls of the family on the verge of entering into plural marriage—if they had not already done so—and she begged us to continue our newspaper exposures, so that others might be saved from the bitter experiences of her life.
— from Under the Prophet in Utah; the National Menace of a Political Priestcraft by Frank J. Cannon