We meet it every day in the ordinary routine of our lives.
— from Woman and the New Race by Margaret Sanger

[8] An enchanted dwarf in the old romance of 'Valentine and Orson,' who manufactured a wooden horse, which could go very fast " Courir comme le cheval de Pacolet, " remains as a proverb.
— from The Jealousy of le Barbouillé (La Jalousie du Barbouillé) by Molière

We were hardly out of Kama-Suwa before we had to make our first dash for shelter to escape drowning in the open road.
— from Samurai Trails: A Chronicle of Wanderings on the Japanese High Road by Lucian Swift Kirtland

"That there are men, or perhaps I ought to say that there is a man , in the valley, who is equal to many marvels in the way of enlightened gifts--" "I knew we should come to peaceable conclusions, Ensign Dudley," interrupted the other, rising erect in his saddle, with an air of appeased dignity; "for I have ever found you a discreet and consequent reasoner, and one who is never known to resist conviction, when truth is pressed with understanding.
— from The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish by James Fenimore Cooper

As Mr. Swinburne has pointed out, one of the most difficult problems meeting the student of the Elizabethan drama, is that of reconciling the elements of lofty thought and gross passion, of high idealism and coarse savagery, which lie so close together, which are indeed bound up inextricably, in the very woof and texture of the plays of Shakspere’s time.
— from Idle Hours in a Library by William Henry Hudson

The wind, blowing from the eastward directly into the open roadstead with irresistible fury, had driven every vessel in port ashore on the beach.
— from Jack in the Forecastle; or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale by John Sherburne Sleeper

In newly formed segments of Globigerina, the hyaline shell substance is perforated by tubuli varying from 1 ⁄ 10000 to 1 ⁄ 5000 of an inch in 41 diameter, arranged at pretty regular distances; but in deep seas the surface of the shell is raised by an external deposit into tubercles or ridges, the orifices of the pores appearing between them.
— from On Molecular and Microscopic Science, Volume 2 (of 2) by Mary Somerville