Thus, a “ hoisting engine” may be understood either as an “engine that hoists ,” or as an “engine for hoisting .”
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

Therefore, I can see no difficulty, more especially under changing conditions of life, in the continued preservation of individuals with fuller and fuller flank-membranes, each modification being useful, each being propagated, until, by the accumulated effects of this process of natural selection, a perfect so-called flying squirrel was produced.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

Therefore, I can see no difficulty, more especially under changing conditions of life, in the continued preservation of individuals with fuller and fuller flank-membranes, each modification being useful, each being propagated, until by the accumulated effects of this process of natural selection, a perfect so-called flying squirrel was produced.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

Of modern writings relating to the Essenes the following may be especially mentioned; Bellermann Ueber Essäer u. Therapeuten , Berlin 1821; Gfrörer Philo II.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

Ruinous penalties were inflicted, not only on every minister, but upon every hearer, who met to worship God in private houses or in the fields and woods.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01 by John Bunyan

Both of these exercises may be used either out of doors, or in the nursery.
— from The Young Mother: Management of Children in Regard to Health by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott

I felt that an 14 entrance might be unostentatiously effected.
— from My Fire Opal, and Other Tales by Sarah Warner Brooks

Next, I could exercise my boys upon easy fossils, and bring out all their powers of memory and all their ingenuity in the application of my osteo-grammatical rules to the interpretation, or construing, of those fragments.
— from Science & Education: Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley

In some regulators the work of moving the regulator is executed mechanically, but under electrical control; in others the entire work is done by the current.
— 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

Every morning brought us evidence of further devastation wrought by the bloodthirsty brute.
— from The Indians' Last Fight; Or, The Dull Knife Raid by Dennis Collins

He could no longer doubt that, for some reason, she expected him to propose to her, which it seemed he had already, in one of those confounded extra minutes, been unprincipled enough to do!
— from Tourmalin's Time Cheques by F. Anstey