[249] Besides the many capacities in which Col. Allan did good service to the community, as detailed during our survey of Front Street, he was also, in 1801, Returning Officer on the occasion of a public election.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

No idle thought her instinct shrouds, But fancy chequers settled sense, Like alteration of the clouds On noonday’s azure permanence; Pure dignity, composure, ease Declare affections nobly fix’d, And impulse sprung from due degrees Of sense and spirit sweetly mix’d.
— from The Angel in the House by Coventry Patmore

The normal speed of the turbine wheel is too high for direct driving of some machinery, so it is reduced by means of gearing.
— from How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Archibald Williams

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

[152] should be in perfect order before you leave the dressing-room, and avoid all such tricks as smoothing your hair with your hand, arranging your curls, pulling the waist of your dress down, or settling your collar or sleeves.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

His being alters el muro hasta penetrar, to penetrate the wall cual mancha de agua que seca as when dog days of summer el ardor canicular! dry up a waterfall.
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

Mr. Danvers devotes one short paragraph to the battle of Raichur,[250] and another[251] to the destruction of Vijayanagar.
— from A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): A Contribution to the History of India by Nunes, Fernão, active 16th century

Such was one of the results of nineteenth-century evolutionism, and the generation that saw the last years of the nineteenth century and the first part of the new, basking in its day dreams of self-complacency, made no move to avert the dangers that threatened it then and now menace it with destruction.
— from Towards the Great Peace by Ralph Adams Cram

These are the men that spade the trenches, drive the food-transports and ammunition-wagons, and carry through the detail duties of small honor that the army may prosper.
— from Golden Lads by Arthur Gleason

Guano is much decayed droppings of sea birds on the tropical coasts of Africa and America.
— from Animal Proteins by Hugh Garner Bennett

Previously my sole idea of criticism was that of the discreet discernment of style; but I now began to understand what powerful argument rose out of combinations; and the very complete establishment which this work gives to the narrative concerning Paul in the latter half of the Acts appeared to me to reflect critical honor on the whole New Testament."
— from The Eclipse of Faith; Or, A Visit to a Religious Sceptic by Henry Rogers

Another celebrated name is that of Dr Donne, Dean of St Paul’s, divine and poet.
— from Cambridge and Its Colleges by A. Hamilton (Alexander Hamilton) Thompson

For the rest, he was as badly dressed as ever, being now arrayed in a loose suit of grey home-spun, which would have startled the accurately dressed denizens of St. James' Street on the person of any one else but Eustace Gartney.
— from Whom God Hath Joined: A Question of Marriage by Fergus Hume

For then 'twas whispered that dark deeds of shame Wreathed with a viper's slime our household name.
— from Victor Roy, a Masonic Poem by Harriet Annie Wilkins