Behind our de facto world, our world in act, there must be a de jure duplicate fixed and previous, with all that can happen here already there in posse, every drop of blood, every smallest item, appointed and provided, stamped and branded, without chance of variation.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James

Other observers, Hitzig, Goltz, Luciani, Loeb, Exner, etc., find, whatever part of the cortex may be ablated on one side, that there usually results a hemiopic disturbance of both eyes, slight and transient when the anterior lobes are the parts attacked, grave when an occipital lobe is the seat of injury, and lasting in proportion to the latter's extent.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

One day overcome by exertion, she fainted in the street.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll

Moreover, the Duke of Medina—dissatisfied with the want of discipline and of good seamanship hitherto displayed in his fleet—now took occasion to send a serjeant-major, with written sailing directions, on board each ship in the Armada, with express orders to hang every captain, without appeal or consultation, who should leave the position assigned him; and the hangmen were sent with the sergeant-majors to ensure immediate attention to these arrangements.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

Sol. in alcohol, glycerin; all proportions water.—Antiseptic, Disinfectant.— Uses: Extern. , in diseases of bladder, eye, skin, and in diphtheria, laryngitis, gingivitis, etc.— Applied in 1 to 10% solut.—
— from Merck's 1899 Manual of the Materia Medica by Merck & Co.

Such was the sight you would have seen between decks on board every ship in the action.
— from The Grateful Indian, and Other Stories by William Henry Giles Kingston

Tactics and strategy extend into technical military science, and can be treated in nice detail only by expert students.
— from Blue Shirt and Khaki: A Comparison by James F. J. (Francis Jewell) Archibald

Then, as the sky brightened, labour awoke throughout the district beyond the crowd, a district of broad, endless streets lined with factories, work-shops and work-yards.
— from The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 5 by Émile Zola

This wonder lasted all till day, and a man had died on board every ship.
— from The Story of Burnt Njal: The Great Icelandic Tribune, Jurist, and Counsellor by Unknown

For all that we familiarly know of Free-Will is that capricious exercise of it which we experience in ourselves and other men; and therefore the notion of Supreme Will, still guided by Infallible Law, even if that law be self-imposed, is always in danger of being either stripped of the essential quality of Freedom, or degraded under the ill-name of Necessity to something of even less moral and intellectual dignity than the fluctuating course of human operations.
— from Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike

Mr. B--- then, addressing himself to the latter, made some observations on the impropriety of using the word Greek to a British sailor: not forgetting at the same time to speak of the absolute necessity of obedience and discipline on board every ship.
— from The Bible in Spain, Vol. 2 [of 2] Or, the Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonments of an Englishman in an Attempt to Circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula by George Borrow