The difficulty lay in finding men experienced in stone dressing to run them; and the demand grew for a better style of grinding than could be done in a mill out of face and balance.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

The bran, or coarse part of the meal, is baked with the fine, and bright scales run through the bread.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

The Princess took her jewels in a casket; a private door, opening from one of her rooms and leading into the outer gate, it was said, of the palace, was discovered for her: and a letter was brought to her, purporting to be from the Duke, her father-in-law, and stating that a carriage and horses had been provided, and would take her to B——: the territory where she might communicate with her family and be safe.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

Then one HIARN, very skilled in writing Danish poetry, wishing to give the fame of the hero some notable record of words, and tempted by the enormous prize, composed, after his own fashion, a barbarous stave.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

Chapter 18 “Now there is something I want to talk about, and you know what it is. About Anna,” Stepan Arkadyevitch said, pausing for a brief space, and shaking off the unpleasant impression.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

And if we retain these two principles—that of proportionate attraction 190 and that of the non-participation of intelligence—we shall ascribe to the semen a faculty for attracting blood similar to that possessed by the lodestone for iron.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

They produce fruits and berries so luscious that some bird or animal will carry it some distance for the sake of the pulp.
— from Birds and Nature Vol. 09 No. 4 [April 1901] by Various

When a suitable twig, or other substance has been found by either, it is not carried directly to the nest, but the finder first flies to a neighboring bush or tree, where he alights for a brief spell, and shows his anxiety by a nervous twitching of the tail.
— from Nests and Eggs of Birds of the United States Illustrated by Thomas G. (Thomas George) Gentry

Now he said: "Tell me, was the little man who suddenly appeared quite fat and bald save for a fringe of white hair?
— from The Shaggy Man of Oz by Jack Snow

Whitton, who for a brief space held the appointment of Town Major of Gommecourt, and was we believe, the one and only person ever to occupy that post of honour.
— from The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919 History of the 1/8th Battalion by W. C. C. Weetman

The only child born of the marriage, little Astrid, was rocked and sung to sleep with it by mother, by father, and by servants, and it was one of the first things she herself learned.
— from The Bridal March; One Day by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

The oxen were both there, Duke with his broad face, and Bright so much sharper and more intelligent looking.
— from Beautiful Joe: An Autobiography by Marshall Saunders

To say I grieve his fortune As much as if the Crown I wear (his gift) Were ravish'd from me, is a holy truth, Our Gods can witness for me: yet, being young, And not a free disposer of my self; Let not a few hours, borrowed for advice, Beget suspicion of unthankfulness, (Which next to Hell I hate) pray you retire, And take a little rest, and let his wounds Be with that care attended, as they were Carv'd on my flesh: good Labienus , think The little respite, I desire shall be Wholly emploi'd to find the readiest way To doe great Pompey service.
— from The False One: A Tragedy by John Fletcher