Distance and time are relations; yet no one would dream of calling them properties .
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 19, April 1874‐September 1874 by Various

I have never spoken a word or done a thing, as regards you, of which I have cause to be ashamed.
— from He Knew He Was Right by Anthony Trollope

The small spring at the bottom of the tappet-arm keeps the tappet in the position shown in the drawing, as the arm rises, yet allows it to pass the teeth on the return motion.
— from The Library of Work and Play: Mechanics, Indoors and Out by Fred. T. (Frederick Thomas) Hodgson

This keeps it from the rain, by which it becomes sodden when in exposed heaps: then the wind will only partially dry it, and the result will be a general heating of the mass, which results, if not in quick decay amounting to absolute rottenness, yet in that state, technically called “moisey,”
— from Science and Practice in Farm Cultivation by James Buckman

I’ll turn in for a few hours and then come down around two and relieve you.”
— from Slim Evans and His Horse Lightning by Graham M. Dean

He can associate with those he loves when they are absent, nay, even when they are dead, and they always remain young and beautiful as when he first delineated them."
— from Willis the Pilot : A Sequel to the Swiss Family Robinson Or, Adventures of an Emigrant Family Wrecked on an Unknown Coast of the Pacific Ocean by Adrien Paul

While the great organ brought from far and near Lovers of harmony to praise and hear, Unmarked by aught save what filled every day, Duty, and toil, and rest, years passed away: And now by the low archway in the shade Beside her mother knelt a little maid,
— from Legends and Lyrics. Part 1 by Adelaide Anne Procter