58 There is no adequate reason for placing in this group “cœliac disease,” a nutritional disorder of children recently described by Still, and suggested by McCarrison as belonging to the category of the vitamine deficiency diseases.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

This assertion is not strictly true, as armies have been destroyed by strategic operations without the occurrence of pitched battles, by a succession of inconsiderable affairs.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

Then Sir Beaumains rode forward, and soon overtook the damsel; but she said to him, in scorn, “Return again, base kitchen page!
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

"I do believe," said Fellowes, "these are the cardinal doctrines of the 'Absolute Religion,' as Mr. Parker calls it.
— from The Eclipse of Faith; Or, A Visit to a Religious Sceptic by Henry Rogers

This Man, at the Time appointed, did, by slight of Hand, sundry Things; which, to those gathered, appeared strange.
— from The Journal, with Other Writings of John Woolman by John Woolman

If any one thinks that I have not been warranted in drawing a sharp distinction between "scientific theologians" and "counsels for creeds"; or that my warning against the too ready acceptance of certain declarations as to the state of biblical criticism was needless; or that my anxiety as to the sense of the word "practical" was superfluous; let him compare the statement that M. Renan has made a "practical surrender of the adverse case" with the facts just set forth.
— from Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions by Thomas Henry Huxley

O ten tousand divla, by such a one, and unto such a one!
— from The Works of John Marston. Volume 2 by John Marston

When out of sight of the teacher he whistled for Tim and walked on slowly down towards the spring, until he came to a dusty, bare spot in the path under a tree, where the boys played keeps.
— from Chit-Chat; Nirvana; The Searchlight by Mathew Joseph Holt

At the first howl the horses began to strain and rear, but the driver spoke to them soothingly, and they quieted down, but shivered and sweated as though after a runaway from sudden fright.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker