Every village or circle has one or more soothsayers, who learn their art from experts under a rigid routine.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

Everywhere there is a sound of closing shutters and shoving bolts, and the only visible humanity is an occasional flitting eye under a raised eyebrow in the corner of a window pane.
— from The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Specific duties would secure to the American manufacturer the incidental protection to which he is fairly entitled under a revenue tariff, and to this surely no person would object.
— from State of the Union Addresses by James Buchanan

Besides, specific duties would afford to the American manufacturer the incidental advantages to which he is fairly entitled under a revenue tariff.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

It has been suggested that such regulation should recognize the occasional necessity for experiments upon animals relating to the transmission of diseases at other places than laboratories, as, for example, on farms.
— from An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals by Albert Leffingwell

He had not yet decided whether Iris should be for ever unattainable, a rainbow of promise, melt mystically into his hero’s being in some ineffable manner, as a final reward, or identify herself with the maiden who had been his childish friend.
— from Amethyst: The Story of a Beauty by Christabel R. (Christabel Rose) Coleridge

This feature of the repair work is a direct result of an elaborate system of interchange in freight equipment upon American railroads, in order to prevent the breaking of bulk in the shipment of merchandise from one line to another.
— from The Modern Railroad by Edward Hungerford

"We have come here to explore and hunt, not to crawl for ever up a river.
— from In Search of the Okapi A Story of Adventure in Central Africa by Ernest Glanville

But a particular subject, cannot, I think, much interfere with a general one; and I have been further kept from encroaching upon any right Mr. C. may still wish to exercise, by the restriction which the frame of the Sonnet imposed upon me, narrowing unavoidably the range of thought, and precluding, though not without its advantages, many graces to which a freer movement of verse would naturally have led.
— from The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 6 (of 8) by William Wordsworth