The meat mixture may be formed into small cone shapes, dipped in egg, then rolled in fine bread crumbs and fried in deep fat.
— from Mary at the Farm and Book of Recipes Compiled during Her Visit among the "Pennsylvania Germans" by Edith May Bertels Thomas

Peculiar for its small cespitose stems, dark sheaths and especially the tumid or gibbous nodes, which make the stems thickest there, while usually the nodes are contracted.
— from The Fern Bulletin, October 1903 A Quarterly Devoted to Ferns by Various

From it she could see distinctly, for it was clear moonlight: a white figure went gliding away along the deserted avenue.
— from David Elginbrod by George MacDonald

Where, indeed, the British subject has to depend upon the force of his Government for protection it is a very frail protection indeed, because in practice the use of that force is so cumbersome, so difficult, so costly, that any other means are to be preferred to it.
— from The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage by Norman Angell

The disembarkation in France of the original British Expeditionary Force is completed, with Sir John French in supreme command (see Dec. 15, 1915), the First Corps being commanded [5] by Sir D. Haig, the Second Corps by Sir James Grierson (see Aug. 17).
— from A Concise Chronicle of Events of the Great War by R. P. P. Rowe

They had walked nearly to the end of this street, when, happening to look up at the fourth story of a house, he saw something white being reversed in the moonlight, and the next instant a long stream of water, reminding him of the horse-tail fall in Switzerland, came splashing down where a sidewalk should have been.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

“It’s all over,” I thought, in my horror, “he will be too late;” and that I was not alone in my thoughts obtained confirmation, for, though the crew to a man stood fast, I saw Ching suddenly drop from his perch and look round for a place of retreat.
— from Blue Jackets: The Log of the Teaser by George Manville Fenn