All the time he’s talking, the doctor is soothing Cat and looking him over.
— from It's like this, cat by Emily Neville

The beautiful valley to which we have journeyed is entirely surrounded with mountains, about five miles square, watered by a charming stream, and inhabited by two thousand aborigines, who are divided into seven clans, and located in seven villages.
— from Haw-Ho-Noo; Or, Records of a Tourist by Charles Lanman

He hears with patience and with the utmost attention every argument opposed to his own opinions, and he states the question in dispute in so clear a light, and divests it so completely from every consideration that is not essential, that every difficulty seems to be removed and the decision rendered quite plain and obvious.
— from The Royal Institution: Its Founder and First Professors by Bence Jones

The joint action of the ocean and the glaciers on the land ground down into sand, clay, and loam, the coarser drift, and sorted it in the form of beaches, terraces, and alluvial deposits.
— from The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Edward Hitchcock

The Dovekie is sometimes called a little auk to distinguish it from t
— from Birds and Nature Vol. 09 No. 4 [April 1901] by Various

Thus, men in different countries and continents were different in structure, color and language.
— from Hawk's Nest; or, The Last of the Cahoonshees. A Tale of the Delaware Valley and Historical Romance of 1690. by James M. (James Martin) Allerton

“If you were to die, I should come and lie here, and then I should like to have this stone set over my body.”
— from The Fortune of the Rougons by Émile Zola

In starting work upon this jewel-case he followed the idea usually worked on by detectives in such cases, at least on the Continent—"Look for the woman," and succeeded where several other officers, working on the case officially, had hitherto failed.
— from The Wide World Magazine, Vol. 22, No. 132, March, 1909 by Various

It is demonstrable, in some cases at least, that such a complete conversion has actually taken place,
— from The Student's Elements of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

I don't mean to study a bit, and instead of visiting you once a day I shall come at least three times."
— from Maggie Miller: The Story of Old Hagar's Secret by Mary Jane Holmes