Those four ladies are called empresses, but each is distinguished also by her proper name.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

A man may work with two very different tools at the same moment; each has its share in the work, but the work effected by each is distinct and different.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Poza y de su Elucidario.” Beg. : ‘El intento del P e .
— from Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Spanish Language in the British Museum. Vol. 4 by Pascual de Gayangos

In the article “Aurora Polaris,” Encyc. Brit., edition ix., Dalton is instanced as having calculated the height of an Aurora in the north of England at 100 miles; and Backhouse as having made many calculations, with the result of an average height of 50 to 100 miles.
— from Auroræ: Their Characters and Spectra by J. Rand Capron

In momentary expectation of being attacked my finger was on the trigger, my gun ready to be raised, my eyes and ears busily engaged in detecting the slightest sounds, that I might defend a life which I at that moment believed was ebbing with my blood away; the loveliness of nature was around me, the sun rejoicing in his cloudless career, the birds were filling the woods with their songs, and my friends far away and unapprehensive of my condition, whilst I felt that I was dying there.
— from Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 1 by Grey, George, Sir

I had no idea you had ever been engaged in defrauding the king's revenue.
— from Through the Fray: A Tale of the Luddite Riots by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

The man explained that he was an ex-noncommissioned officer of the State forces, whose services had been enlisted by Elbel in dealing with the refractory natives.
— from Samba: A Story of the Rubber Slaves of the Congo by Herbert Strang

C HAUVREAU , "Tics coordonnés avec emission brusque et involontaire de mots articulés," Thèse de Bordeaux , 1888.
— from Tics and Their Treatment by Henry Meige

One's ear becomes exact in distinguishing the size of shells by the sound which they make in traveling through the air; and it is possible to judge the direction and the probable place of their fall.
— from Kitchener's Mob: Adventures of an American in the British Army by James Norman Hall

] "Let him show no mercy towards this hell-brood of Satan, for the devil lately had become so powerful everywhere, but especially in dear Pomerania-land, that, if not prevented, he would soon pervert the whole people, and turn them away from the pure and blessed evangelical doctrine.
— from Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 2 by Wilhelm Meinhold

Many instances of the vomiting of pregnancy cannot be explained by errors in diet, for the attacks come on repeatedly whether the stomach contains food or not.
— from The Prospective Mother, a Handbook for Women During Pregnancy by J. Morris (Josiah Morris) Slemons