This vessel supplied each drop of water ever drunk upon the isle by the Cholos.
— from The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville

She longed to see him again; she came home from driving or walking each day with aching eyes and dulled heart because she had been disappointed in encountering him.
— from A Crooked Path: A Novel by Mrs. Alexander

And, still trembling from the quarrel, bewildered and worn out, Monsieur Josserand ended by promising to talk the matter over with Duveyrier, on whom everything depended, according to Madame Josserand.
— from Piping Hot! (Pot-Bouille): A Realistic Novel by Émile Zola

It demands, or will eventually demand, that these individuals shall love and wish to serve their fellow-countrymen, and it will demand specifically that in the service of their fellow-countrymen, they shall reorganize their country's economic, political, and social institutions and ideas.
— from The Promise of American Life by Herbert David Croly

A system of mechanical movements, passive exercises, manipulations, kneadings and rubbings, administered by a large variety of ingeniously-contrived machinery, driven by stream-power, has been found especially efficacious and valuable, as an aid to medical and surgical treatment, in the cure of obstinate cases of nervous and sick headache, constipation, paralysis, or palsy, stiffened joints, crooked and withered limbs, spinal curvature, tumors, diseases of women, especially displacements of the uterus, or womb, such as prolapsus, retroversion and anteversion, chronic inflammation, enlargement and ulceration of the uterus, and kindred affections; also in nervous debility, sleeplessness, and other chronic diseases.
— from The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand by Ray Vaughn Pierce

Scepticism has ever been the bugbear of youthful vanity, and it is considered knowing to quarrel with existing institutions and established truths; our experienced reflection regrets this inclination and we become weary of distracting ourselves with endless difficulties.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 532, February 4, 1832 by Various

These men were capable of better things than they had done or would ever do; in each case their failure to fulfil youthful promise was largely explained by the unpresentable wife.
— from New Grub Street by George Gissing

Then upon getting into our new quarters we had to re-establish our culinary and commissariat departments, on which everything depended, as well as to re-organise the system of Hospital management, and put the whole into working order.
— from With an Ambulance During the Franco-German War Personal Experiences and Adventures with Both Armies, 1870-1871 by Charles Edward Ryan

A remarkably clear and incisive essay in defense of woman, entitled De l'égalité des deux sexes , appeared in Paris in 1673.
— from A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 3 of 3 by George Elliott Howard