The Crawley heavy cavalry was maddened by defeat, and routed every day.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

In the main mass of the batholith the dikes are rather evenly distributed as to kind with a slight preponderance of the dark-colored group.
— from The Andes of Southern Peru Geographical Reconnaissance along the Seventy-Third Meridian by Isaiah Bowman

M. de Francueil could not be witty that day, and Rousseau escaped directly on leaving the table, without having said a word,—displeased, perhaps, with having found a new contradiction to his claim of being the most persecuted, the most hated, and the most calumniated of men."
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

Beautiful, daring, and restless, every day running a hundred risks, and loved the better for the dangers she ran, Beatrice was almost worshiped at the Elms.
— from Dora Thorne by Charlotte M. Brame

"The candor of his nature refused the least deceit, and rejected every degree of indirectness without consciousness or effort.
— from Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis to John S. Dwight; Brook Farm and Concord by George William Curtis

The upper left-hand star of the rhombus of stars forming the head of the Delphinus is the star γ Delphini, a rather easy double (see Plate 5 ), the components being nearly 12" apart, their magnitudes 4 and 7, their colours golden yellow and flushed grey.
— from Half-hours with the Telescope Being a Popular Guide to the Use of the Telescope as a Means of Amusement and Instruction. by Richard A. (Richard Anthony) Proctor

And yonder in the South, Orléans and Dunois are raising every devil in Hell's register!
— from The Line of Love; Dizain des Mariages by James Branch Cabell