I am speaking now in relation to Raveloe and the parishes that resembled it; for our old-fashioned country life had many different aspects, as all life must have when it is spread over a various surface, and breathed on variously by multitudinous currents, from the winds of heaven to the thoughts of men, which are for ever moving and crossing each other with incalculable results.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot

The “conclusion forced itself upon it that certain conditions and associations of human life and habitation are the prolific parents of corresponding habits and morals,” and it recommended “the prevention of drunkenness by providing for every man a clean and comfortable home.”
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

For eleven months all communication between them and the rest of their fellow-creatures had been interrupted, and in a short time the 24th of March would arrive, the anniversary of the day on which the balloon had thrown them on this unknown coast.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

He tells me there is nothing at all in the late discourse about my Lord Sandwich and the French Embassador meeting and contending for the way, which I wonder at, to see the confidence of report without any ground.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Note that this is one of many terms, made by spelling foreign words according to Spanish phonetics, which are finding a place in the Spanish vocabulary; mitin , from Eng. meeting , and chaqué , from Fr. jaquette , are two others.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

The fact is, though Stair could not hoist the Dutch, and our double-quick Britannic heroism had to drop dead in consequence, Carteret has done it: Carteret himself rushed over in that crisis, a fiery emphatic man and chief minister, [Arrived at the Hague "5th October, 1742" (Adelung, iii. A, 294).]—"eager to please his Master's humor!" said enemies.
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 14 by Thomas Carlyle

Six aldermen are placed on the rota for each month, and compelled to attend at the Old Bailey, unless they can furnish a sufficient excuse for their absence.
— from The Corporation of London, Its Rights and Privileges by William Ferneley Allen

She agreed with him, and Mr. Wade felt even more agreeably conscious than usual of his own good judgment.
— from Ainslee's magazine, Volume 16, No. 3, October, 1905 by Various

In all these instances, the number of which might be further increased, we find homogeneousness of population at first, ethnical mixture and confusion at the end.
— from The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind by Gobineau, Arthur, comte de

He had himself seen loads of hay drawn home on 'sleds' from English meadows, and could tell where a 'sled' had last been used.
— from Round About a Great Estate by Richard Jefferies

We had not seen a strange face for eight months, and could do nothing but stare at them, and I think each one of us felt as if he or she were in a dream.
— from South African Memories Social, Warlike & Sporting from Diaries Written at the Time by Wilson, Sarah Isabella Augusta, Lady

These animals are with few exceptions marine, and consist either of a single polypite or of a number connected together by a common flesh, or cœnosarc.
— from Colouration in Animals and Plants by Alfred Tylor

If the drug is free from earthy matter, a clear bright-yellow solution will be immediately obtained; if adulterated, a white powder will instantly separate, causing the water to appear turbid; and if a drop of hydrochloric acid be now added, a brisk effervescence will take place.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume II by Richard Vine Tuson

This combination tannage seems to be assured of a great future; especially may a combination tannage of iron salts and Ordoval G eventually entirely replace chrome tannage.
— from Synthetic Tannins, Their Synthesis, Industrial Production and Application by Georg Grasser

Oslo, a member of the European Free Trade Area, has applied for EC membership and continues to deregulate and harmonize with EC regulations to prepare for the European Economic Area (EEA) - which creates an EC/EFTA market with free movement of capital, goods, services, and labor - to take effect in late 1993 and its EC bid.
— from The 1993 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency