If it is, it seems likely enough that, with the increasing popularity of country walks, there will after a time be no daffodils or orchises left in England.
— from The Pleasures of Ignorance by Robert Lynd

and this maxim does not mean, of course, that a man is to go into a corner, and by a series of probings to take the measure of his own capacity; it means rather that we shall know our relation to that outer world in which our active powers are to be spent; it means that we shall know the world by free intercourse and by cautious trial, and that we shall make it our business with conscientious care to discover what we are fit for on this stage of things on which the drama of our life is enacted, and what we are not fit for.
— from Four Phases of Morals: Socrates, Aristotle, Christianity, Utilitarianism by John Stuart Blackie

Wading about in the mud and playing in a steady downpour, often our lot in England, is unknown on the Continent.
— from Lawn Tennis for Ladies by Mrs. Lambert Chambers

Is there, then, such an ordinance, in the Christian Church, to be observed by all the followers and disciples of our Lord, in every age and country?
— from Twenty-four Discourses On Some of the Important and Interesting Truths, Duties, and Institutions, of the Gospel, and the General Excellency of the Christian Religion; Calculated for the People of God of Every Communion, Particularly for the Benefit of Pious Families, and the Instruction of All in the Things Which Concern Their Salvation by Nathan Perkins

That the bird was common in the days of our Lord is evident from the reference to the "cock-crowing" as a measure of time.
— from Bible Animals; Being a Description of Every Living Creature Mentioned in the Scripture, from the Ape to the Coral. by J. G. (John George) Wood

And now done out of Latin into English, by D.F.M.D. 1693.
— from The Talking Deaf Man A Method Proposed, Whereby He Who is Born Deaf, May Learn to Speak by Johann Conrad Amman

"Three freemen were on trial "—or, " were receiving their trial —at the date of our last information."— Editor cor.
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

per kilo and death only occurred late in each case.
— from Toadstools, mushrooms, fungi, edible and poisonous; one thousand American fungi How to select and cook the edible; how to distinguish and avoid the poisonous, with full botanic descriptions. Toadstool poisons and their treatment, instructions to students, recipes for cooking, etc., etc. by Charles McIlvaine