That's what I always had agin these here abolitionists as used to come pokin' round here—they ain't never learned to set down an' cross thar hands, an' leave the Lord to mind his own business.
— from The Battle Ground by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

By his diligence and commercial talents he at length rendered himself the most opulent subject in the kingdom, and the queen showed her sense of his merit and consequence by bestowing on him the honor of knighthood.
— from Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Lucy Aikin

It is also asserted that dogs and cats that have accidentally lost their tails, bring forth young similarly deformed.
— from Searchlights on Health: The Science of Eugenics by B. G. (Benjamin Grant) Jefferis

"Now come, no nonsense, Doctor," and Courtney, taking his arm, led him towards one of the windows opening out to the moonlit garden,—"can you, as an honest man, assure me in sober earnest that there are 'scientific ghosts' of the nature you describe?"
— from Ziska: The Problem of a Wicked Soul by Marie Corelli

However, they were already out thirty-two days and certainly they had a long way to go.
— from The Lost Wagon by Jim Kjelgaard

A foot-valve in the bottom end of the hollow piston opens while going down and closes to hold and lift the water as the piston rises.
— from Farm Mechanics: Machinery and Its Use to Save Hand Labor on the Farm. by Herbert A. Shearer