For the characteristic of “unrestfulness” requires some care to distinguish it from “uneasiness,” in the sense in which this latter term signifies some degree of painfulness.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

B., C. E.—Lowell Hydraulic Experiments: Being a selection from Experiments on Hydraulic Motors, on the Flow of Water over Weirs, in Open Canals of Uniform Rectangular Section, and through submerged Orifices and diverging Tubes.
— from Legal Chemistry A Guide to the Detection of Poisons, Examination of Tea, Stains, Etc., as Applied to Chemical Jurisprudence by Alfred Naquet

Some person’s only remark on seeing Turner’s Modern Italy will be that the colours are cracked, or, upon reading Sterne, that he always wrote “you was” instead of “you were.” “Did it ever strike you,” said a friend of mine, “that whenever you hear of page 10 p. 10 a young woman found drowned she always is described as having worn elastic boots?” Such persons look at all things through a distorting medium.
— from Interludes being Two Essays, a Story, and Some Verses by Horace Smith

Yet, has it not come on us rather suddenly?"
— from True to a Type, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Robert Cleland

Penelope has apparently listened with such attention to the old Celtic romances as told by the Ard-ri and Dermot O'Dyna that she has, consciously or unconsciously, reproduced something of their atmosphere and phraseology.
— from Penelope's Irish Experiences by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

In writing upon this subject Lord Strathcona said: “While I attach the highest importance to the advantages of physical training and elementary drill for all children of both sexes, I am particularly anxious that the especial value of military drill, including rifle shooting for boys capable of using rifles, should be constantly borne in mind.
— from Montreal from 1535 to 1914. Vol. 3. Biographical by William H. (William Henry) Atherton

—Because the revolutionists, who shall overthrow the nations of Christendom, shall say against them, “Aha, even the oldest and greatest nations of Christendom are under the control of us revolutionists, Socialists and laborites.”
— from Studies in the Scriptures, Volume 7: The Finished Mystery by C. T. (Charles Taze) Russell