The shadow of his evil gift clung to him yet like the smell of a deadly drug in an old vial of poison, emptied now, useless, ready to be thrown away upon the rubbish-heap of things that had served their time.
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

The result was that no request was made for an explanation; no unpleasant remark; no joke in bad taste, which might have offended this visitor from the tomb.
— from The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

Robert, Amy, Louise and Imogene all felt shocked, but not exactly, not unqualifiedly regretful.
— from Jennie Gerhardt: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

"Every adjective ( with the exceptions noted under Rule 9th) belongs to a noun or pronoun expressed or understood."— L. Murray et al. cor.
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

In the end, Netherby usually received a card for any function that was going, always excepting such—formal dinner parties and the like—as necessitated inviting Albert Clegg.
— from The Willing Horse: A Novel by Ian Hay

Another affirms that he has taken it for days in succession, and has experienced no unpleasant results.
— from An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals by Albert Leffingwell

Je lui ai déclaré enfin nettement que ma maison devait être un sanctuaire et non une retraite de brigands ou de célérats qui distillent des poissons.
— from Books and Characters, French & English by Lytton Strachey

With loving instinct she softened every note, until Raff almost fancied that his two-year-old baby was once more beside him.
— from Hans Brinker; Or, The Silver Skates by Mary Mapes Dodge

I even noticed unequivocal remains of a sluice by which the water was diverted to the tunnel near the arch that crosses the Sik.
— from Man and Nature; Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action by George P. (George Perkins) Marsh

These are commonly formed by the bronchial tubes being dilated at intervals, especially in the abdomen, into oblong inflated vesicles; from which other bronchial tubes diverge, and again at intervals expand into smaller vesicles, so as to exhibit no unapt resemblance—as Swammerdam has observed with respect to those of the rhinoceros-beetle—to a specimen of Fucus vesiculosus .
— from An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. 4 or Elements of the Natural History of the Insects by William Kirby

His pathetic shape had saved him from the punishment which often attended the tricks of less daring jesters; and it may be surmised that his malignant face and cross-seeing eyes not unfrequently repelled the would-be striker.
— from The Plowshare and the Sword: A Tale of Old Quebec by John Trevena