The fruiterer at the corner had put out the blazing glory of his oranges and lemons, and Brett Place was all darkness, interspersed with the misty halos of the few lamps defining its triangular shape, with a cluster of three lights on one stand in the middle.
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

This structure consists of tendinous fibres, lying deeper than, but parallel with, those of the superficial arch.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

Let us call it THE FIVE SISTERS OF YORK After a murmur of approbation from the other passengers, during which the fastidious lady drank a glass of punch unobserved, the grey-headed gentleman thus went on: ‘A great many years ago—for the fifteenth century was scarce two years old at the time, and King Henry the Fourth sat upon the throne of England—there dwelt, in the ancient city of York, five maiden sisters, the subjects of my tale.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

But it is this selection of the significant and suppression of the non-essential that often gives to a few lines drawn quickly, and having a somewhat remote relation to the complex appearance of the real object, more vitality and truth than are to be found in a highly-wrought and painstaking drawing, during the process of which the essential and vital things have been lost sight of in the labour of the work; and the non-essential, which is usually more obvious, is allowed to creep in and obscure the original impression.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

The forsaken nymph, shocked at this disgrace and mortification, relapsed into her former languishing disorder; and was by her mother put under the management and prescription of a physician, who had been an industrious enemy of Fathom from his first appearance at Tunbridge.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

133 The Protestants have dwelt with malicious pleasure on these characters of Antichrist; but to a philosophic eye, the vices of the clergy are far less dangerous than their virtues.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

La malamikoj staris ĉirkaŭ la patro, kaj forpuŝis lin de lia ĉevalo.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

(dijo C....—que era el más avisado de nosotros.—¡Por eso fué luego diputado a Cortes!)—
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

We can thus also understand the fact that the Alpine plants of each mountain-range are more especially related to the arctic forms living due north or nearly due north of them: for the migration as the cold came on, and the re-migration on the returning warmth, will generally have been due south and north.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

From this time public notices, requisitions, forced labors, domiciliary visits for tools and wheelbarrows, came one after another, incessantly.
— from The Blockade of Phalsburg: An Episode of the End of the Empire by Erckmann-Chatrian

[290] Thus he here not only falls back on the “ghostly law,” but also deviates from the line he had formerly laid down.
— from Luther, vol. 6 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

As for an action for libel, don't expect it—but I swear there shan't be a safe corner in London for you.
— from Thelma by Marie Corelli

Your feminine logic disqualifies you for the profession.”
— from The Bigamist by F. E. Mills (Florence Ethel Mills) Young

Ardente, Alessandro, of Faenza, ( Diario Sacro di Lucca ) more commonly supposed to be from Pisa, and by some from Lucca, d. 1595.
— from The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. 6 (of 6) From the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century (6 volumes) by Luigi Lanzi

Excerpt from letter dated September 9, 1893 from Mary Baker Eddy to Mrs. Marjorie Colles.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1964 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

Religions: Roman Catholic 99% Languages: French Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 99% male: 99% female: 99% (1982 est.)
— from The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Then there would be business a despatch perhaps from Lord Durham in Canada, which Lord M. would read.
— from Queen Victoria by Lytton Strachey

“Oh! if I were confident that he has no such suspicions—that he has learnt or surmised nothing calculated to diminish the respect due to his mother and myself——” “How can he have fathomed the obscurity which hangs over your former life?” demanded the Earl.
— from The Mysteries of London, v. 4/4 by George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds

'On my second visit to the chapel,' he went on, 'my purpose was to take every note I could of figures, lettering, diamond-scratchings on the glass, and even apparently accidental markings.
— from Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M. R. (Montague Rhodes) James