II, ran perpetually on six days, and rested every seventh, [though it no way appears by either of their accounts that the seventh day of this river was the Jewish seventh day or sabbath,] is quite vanished, I shall add no more about it: only see Dr. Hudson's note.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

Iodide of potassium, 1 part; sal ammoniac, 8 parts; dry, and reduce each separately to fine powder; mix them, and enclose 1 ⁄ 2 oz. to 1 oz. of the mixed powder in a small bag of linen or silk.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume II by Richard Vine Tuson

"That, sir, I never will do alive!" replied Emily, surmising the nature of the attorney's assumed authority.
— from Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue A Tale of the Mississippi and the South-west by Warren T. Ashton

“Here's a Murray Davenport, all right enough,” said Tompkins, “but he's a playwright.”
— from The Mystery of Murray Davenport: A Story of New York at the Present Day by Robert Neilson Stephens

He is a writer who was formerly a Roman Catholic priest, and in his reaction from Catholicism he displays a resolution even sterner than Professor Metchnikoff’s, to deny that anything religious or divine can exist, that there can be any aim in life except happiness, or any guide but “science.”
— from God, the Invisible King by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

In his note, Gustavus-Adolphus reminded them that he had been deposed only by the influence of Napoleon, with whom he had declined all relationship, especially since the death of the Duc d’Enghien.
— from Anecdotal Recollections of the Congress of Vienna by La Garde-Chambonas, Auguste Louis Charles, Comte de

He got distortion all right, enough still to satisfy the uninitiated.
— from The Poisoned Pen by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve

The banished Duke exemplifies the best sense of nature as thoroughly informed and built up with Christian discipline and religious efficacy; so that the asperities of life do but make his thoughts run the smoother.
— from Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England by Henry Norman Hudson