You'll come out presently, I can see, when supper's on the table.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari Volume 107, September 22nd, 1894 by Various

West of the Royal Palace is the picture gallery owned by the state, and by judicious and repeated purchases, the collection of pictures is considered superior to that of the famous gallery in Antwerp.
— from The Harris-Ingram Experiment by Charles E. (Charles Edward) Bolton

The artillery on both sides was ploughing the ground in all directions, and making fearful gaps in the ranks exposed—the French were fast closing on and around our right—the different generals had received their instructions, and waited but the final order—a few minutes must decide whether there was to be a desperate battle or a bloody retreat; when, at length, 336 Lord Wellington, who had been anxiously watching their movements with his spy-glass, called out, "Packenham, I can stand this no longer; now is your time!"
— from Random Shots from a Rifleman by J. (John) Kincaid

[187] on the edge and shaped by machinery, as in the best shoes, or composition or paper, in cheap shoes.
— from A Manual of Shoemaking and Leather and Rubber Products by William H. (William Henry) Dooley

14 In France, even to this day, a person convicted of parricide is “conduit sur le lieu de l’exécution en chemise, nu-pieds, et la tête couverte d’un voile noir”; 15 and whilst meurtre is excusable if provoked by grave personal violence or by an attempt to break into a dwelling-house by day, parricide is never excusable under any circumstances.
— from The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck