As John Dawkins objected to their entering London before nightfall, it was nearly eleven o'clock when they reached the turnpike at Islington.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

The next passage in that collection of scandal which struck me was—“We understand that E. W. Howard de Howard, Esq., Secretary, is shortly to lead to the hymeneal altar the daughter of Timothy Tomkins, Esq., late Consul of—.” I quite started out of my bath with delight.
— from Pelham — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Deppe objects to this extreme lifting of the fingers.
— from Music-Study in Germany, from the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay by Amy Fay

As John Dawkins objected to their entering London before nightfall, it was nearly eleven o’clock when they reached the turnpike at Islington.
— from Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress. Illustrated by Charles Dickens

Amusing, too, was the warm dispute of the two errant lake poets whether a certain acutely-angular bridge in the Alps was called great A from its resemblance to that letter, or as the first of its kind.
— from The Collector Essays on Books, Newspapers, Pictures, Inns, Authors, Doctors, Holidays, Actors, Preachers by Henry T. (Henry Theodore) Tuckerman

On page 1 of the Zapotec Codex Féjerváry-Mayer an outline formed by the 260 days of the tonalamatl exactly like the one in fig.
— from An Introduction to the Study of the Maya Hieroglyphs by Sylvanus Griswold Morley

In a day or two the expected letter came from Hamburg.
— from Uncle Titus and His Visit to the Country by Johanna Spyri

The increasing influence of these Druids of the third epoch led, however, naturally to some opposition.
— from Myths of the Rhine by M. Xavier

[Footnote 1: There is every reason to believe that living plants, like living animals, always respire, and, in respiring, absorb oxygen and give off carbonic acid; but, that in green plants exposed to daylight or to the electric light, the quantity of oxygen evolved in consequence of the decomposition of carbonic acid by a special apparatus which green plants possess exceeds that absorbed in the concurrent respiratory process.]
— from Discourses: Biological & Geological Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley