You see in the historian a gloomy, hard, but determined gaze,––an eye that looks out as an isolated North Pole explorer looks out (perhaps so as not to look within, so as not to look back?)––there is snow––here is life silenced, the last crows which caw here are called "whither?"
— from The Genealogy of Morals The Complete Works, Volume Thirteen, edited by Dr. Oscar Levy. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

3rd son of Charles Drummond (banker) by Frances, 2nd dau. of Rev. Edward Lockwood, of Portman Square.
— from The Waterloo Roll Call With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes by Charles Dalton

As against the professedly exact laws of physics, such empirical generalizations have the advantage that they deal with observable phenomena.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

Sed nun mi havas du aŭ tri minutojn da libera tempo, kaj mi tuj ekkaptas la okazon por skribi letereton, petante ke vi vespermanĝu kun mi hodiaŭ vespere, ĉe la hotelo kie, kiel vi vidas, mi loĝas de antaŭ unu tago.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

R. O Edward Curtis * Oakville Trafalgar Halton O R. Balmer Oakwood Mariposa Victoria, S. R. O Richard P. Butler Oban Sarnia Lambton O William Carrick * Odessa Ernestown Lennox O P. S. Timmerman Offa Stephen Huron, S. R.
— from List of Post Offices in Canada, with the Names of the Postmasters ... 1873 by Canada. Post Office Department

A copper conductor used in electric lighting or power stations, to receive the current from all the dynamos.
— from The Standard Electrical Dictionary A Popular Dictionary of Words and Terms Used in the Practice of Electrical Engineering by T. O'Conor (Thomas O'Conor) Sloane

In case either lock or primer should entirely fail, recourse will be had to the friction-primers or to the spur-tubes.
— from Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition. by United States. Navy Department. Bureau of Ordnance

Therefore the average weight of an equal number of capsules from each lot of plants seems to be the fairest standard of comparison, as their weights will have been determined chiefly by the number of the included seeds.
— from The Effects of Cross & Self-Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom by Charles Darwin

Suppose a rough canvass of prospective consumers in a district to be supplied with electric light or power shows the principal loads to be located at A, B, C, D, E, etc., and for simplicity assume that these loads will be approximately equal, so that each may be denoted by 1 1918 for example: The relative locations of A, B, C, D, E, etc., should be drawn to scale (say 1 inch to the 1,000 feet) after which the problem resolves itself into finding the location of the station with respect to this scale.
— from Hawkins Electrical Guide v. 08 (of 10) Questions, Answers, & Illustrations, A progressive course of study for engineers, electricians, students and those desiring to acquire a working knowledge of electricity and its applications by N. (Nehemiah) Hawkins

No candid person ought to condemn Hume as he has often been condemned without remembering the allowance to be made for his excessive vanity, [75] his extreme love of paradoxical speculation, and the [Pg 116] dramatic irony which runs throughout his writings.
— from The Philosophy of Natural Theology An Essay in confutation of the scepticism of the present day by William Jackson