Milk and cream, upon reaching the stomach, are coagulated by the gastric juice; but the casein product formed is not indigestible.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Our chairs, being his patents, embraced and caressed us rather than submitted to be sat upon, and there was that luxurious after-dinner atmosphere, when thought runs gracefully free of the trammels of precision.
— from The Time Machine by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

I happened, too, to hear of the scene at the office, from a man who described it capitally, unconsciously reproducing the scene with great vividness.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

As for the cleansing, the duty was intrusted to the showers, which choked up rather than swept away.
— from Les Misérables, v. 5/5: Jean Valjean by Victor Hugo

The Prince, in order to refresh his armie, and to give My Lord George and the artilirie time to come up, resolved to sejour the 29th at Penrith; so ordered his little army to appear in the morning under arms, in order to be reviewed, and to know in what manner the numbers stood from his haveing entered England.
— from Waverley; Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since — Volume 2 by Walter Scott

With a force of 600,000 men, divided into three companies, Marsiglio attacked the paladin in Roncesvallês and overthrew him; but Charlemagne, coming up, routed the Saracen, and hanged him on the very tree under which he planned the attack.—Turpin, Chronicle (1122).
— from Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 3 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

It is clear, upon reflection, that such intelligence, such manners, and knowledge not only of business but of men (for a banker and a banker's agent has often to judge at a moment's notice whether a man be a rogue or honest), cannot be had for nothing.
— from Hodge and His Masters by Richard Jefferies

Then you have so very strong a manner of expression where you take a distaste, that when passion has subdued, and I come (upon reflection) to see by your severity what I have given occasion for, I cannot help condemning myself.
— from Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1 by Samuel Richardson

The Prince, in order to refresh his armie, and to give my Lord George and the artilirie time to come up, resolved to sejour the 29th at Penrith; so ordered his little army to appear in the morning under arms, in order to be reviewed, and to know in what manner the numbers stood from his haveing entered England.
— from Waverley; Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since by Walter Scott

It was again the steady, penetrating look, and now it seemed, with the smile that veiled it, to claim some common understanding rather than seek it.
— from Tante by Anne Douglas Sedgwick