The surgeon, indeed, who first dressed him was a young fellow, and seemed desirous of representing his case to be as bad as possible, that he might have the more honour from curing him: but the king's surgeon hath seen him since, and says, unless from a fever, of which there are at present no symptoms, he apprehends not the least danger of life.”
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Science, so far as science denies such exceptional occurrences, lies prostrate in the dust for me; and the most urgent intellectual need which I feel at present is that science be built up again in a form in which such things may have a positive place.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

In learning the first and second declensions we saw that the different cases were formed by adding the case terminations to the part of the word that did not change, which we called the base .
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

of, 104 accusative case, 33 as subject of the infinitive, 214 object, 37 of duration and extent, 336 of place to which, 263 , 266 predicate, 392 with prepositions, 340 adjectives , 54 , 55 agreement, 65 comparison regular, 301 by adverbs, 302 irregular, 307 , 311 , 312 , 315 declension of comparatives, 303 of first and second declensions, 83 , 93 , 469 of third declension, 250 - 257 , 471 with the dative, 143 adverbs , 319 comparison, 320 , 323 formation regular, 320 , 321 irregular, 322 , 323 agent expressed by the abl.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

in maney instances find a Similar deficiency; yet those animals bound from rock to rock and Stand apparently in the most Careless manner on the Side of precipices of maney hundred feet.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

“So, extraordinary, my dear—so odd,” Aunt Hester, passing through the little, dark hall (she was rather short-sighted), had tried to 'shoo' it off a chair, taking it for a strange, disreputable cat—Tommy had such disgraceful friends!
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property by John Galsworthy

Nature has wants which must be administered to, and Tissot is right only as far as the abuse of nature is concerned, but this abuse would very seldom occur if the directors exercised proper wisdom and prudence, and if they did not make a point of forbidding it in a special and peculiar manner; young people give way to dangerous excesses from a sheer delight in disobedience,—a disposition very natural to humankind, since it began with Adam and Eve.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

This he placed in the middle of the floor and, squatting down upon a stool in front of it, he threw back the lid.
— from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

She took it and tried to fasten it in her hair but her fingers faltered, and Savile drew nearer; the music, too, heralded another dance.
— from My Lady Clancarty Being the True Story of the Earl of Clancarty and Lady Elizabeth Spencer by Mary Imlay Taylor

It is in Quebec.... {67} {66} T is in Quebec, the Old World city so curiously transplanted from sixteenth century France, and set down here on its commanding bluff, above the Saint Lawrence, that one takes the road of romantic history.
— from Romantic Canada by Victoria Hayward

The key is adjustable and may be arranged for any station desired by means of the movable cams shown on the rear in Fig.
— from Cyclopedia of Telephony and Telegraphy, Vol. 2 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. by American School of Correspondence

His head is large, with extremely small eyes, and very large and pendulous ears; he has an arched back, and a huge thick body, which rests upon clumsy and shapeless legs; his feet are slightly divided into five rounded heaps; the upper jaw is armed with two enormous projecting tusks, which measure in many instances six or seven feet; and he is endowed with an extraordinary proboscis or trunk, of such strength that it can uproot trees, and of such delicacy that it can gather grass.
— from The Desert World by Arthur Mangin

It did not last more than a minute or two, for almost instantly the engine was stopped, and with its stoppage the light faded and soon disappeared.
— from The Moon Metal by Garrett Putman Serviss

We each, conscience-bound, put up the tips of our fingers to the glasses as soon as Mary had filled them with froth, and solemnly drank the toast in the eighth of an inch residuum.
— from The Red Planet by William John Locke

But I want you to understand that she would slam the door in my face, and she did.
— from How to Be a Detective by James Brady

Not now, as of old, did he keep the personal letters in his desk tied up, ready for a sudden departure for Vienna or Kamchatka.
— from Our Mr. Wrenn: The Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man by Sinclair Lewis

The starlings have increased so fast in this limited region since their first permanent settlement in Central Park about 1890 that farmers and suburban dwellers have feared that they might become as undesirable citizens as some other Europeans—the brown rat, the house mouse, and the English sparrow.
— from Bird Neighbors An Introductory Acquaintance with One Hundred and Fifty Birds Commonly Found in the Gardens, Meadows, and Woods About Our Homes by Neltje Blanchan