That part of Pen's countenance turned as red as it had ever done in the earliest days of his blushes: he grasped the other's hand and said, “Thank you, Warrington,” with all his might: and then he retired to his own room with his book, and passed the greater part of the day upon his bed re-reading it; and he did as Warrington had advised, and altered not a little, and added a great deal, until at length he had fashioned 'Walter Lorraine' pretty much into the shape in which, as the respected novel-reader knows, it subsequently appeared.
— from The History of Pendennis by William Makepeace Thackeray

[56] “First began a dew as soft As those tears the golden sunrise Kisseth from Aurora’s lids; Then a gentle rain, as dulcet As those showers the green earth drinks In the early days of summer; From the clouds then water-lances, Darting at the mountains, struck them; In the clouds their sharp points shimmer’d, On the mountains rang their but-ends; Then the rivulets were loosened, Roused to madness, ran their currents, Rose to rushing rivers, then Swelled to seas of seas.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 21, April, 1875, to September, 1875 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

[130] The Dutch anatomist, Camper, distinguishes the Human Family by the facial angle, ranging from eighty degrees, in the European, down to seventy degrees, in the Negro.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 17 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

It was not essentially different in the early days when the President in person read his message to the Senate and the House together as an address, and the Senate in a body carried its reply to the executive mansion.
— from Congressional Government: A Study in American Politics by Woodrow Wilson

Of the members elected 329 were elected directly in the electoral districts; 44 were elected in the district groups; 51 on the tickets of the Reich; 42 other members were sent by territories in which plebiscites had been ordered.
— from The New German Constitution by René Brunet

I therefore believe that Nestor productus inhabited both Norfolk and Philip Islands, and that all specimens extant are from Philip Island, where it lingered some years longer than on the main island, while the specimens of Ferdinand Bauer and Governor Hunter, and possibly the supposed N. norfolcensis of Page 46 {46} Canon Tristram's collection, now in Liverpool, had been brought from Lord Howe's Island in cages and were kept as pets in Norfolk Island; and then, as the value of exact data in those early days of our science was unknown, the references were made to the place whence the specimens were seen or brought.
— from Extinct Birds An attempt to unite in one volume a short account of those Birds which have become extinct in historical times by Rothschild, Lionel Walter Rothschild, Baron

Mil. et de i. tercia et de i. septima parte Mil.
— from Feudal England: Historical Studies on the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries by John Horace Round

The distemper which had estranged her mind in all things else, had left her love and obedience entire to her husband; and he entertained a more visible fondness, and evinced a greater respect for her after she was distempered than he had ever done in the early days of their marriage.
— from Constance Sherwood: An Autobiography of the Sixteenth Century by Georgiana Fullerton