In some places, the soil or earth covering the first layer of rock is of such a character that it is next to impossible to sink the log through to the rock; still, patient contriving will do much in [Pg 541] obviating this; for instance, after going as deep as the gravel or quicksand in which the first vein of water is found, will permit, and reaming out the hole, the log is inserted, having its lower end sharpened, and defended by a tapering iron band well secured.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.—September, 1851—Vol. III. by Various

But she is there to kneel; But— Her favorite line of reading Is O. Meredith’s “Lucille.”
— from A line-o'-verse or two by Bert Leston Taylor

The tangents are made to conform to the falling line of rail, instead of the falling line having to conform to the tangents, as is the case in most systems.
— from Practical Stair Building and Handrailing By the square section and falling line system. by W. H. Wood

Suppose poor Reardon’s novels had been published in the full light of reputation instead of in the struggling dawn which was never to become day, wouldn’t they have been magnified by every critic?
— from New Grub Street by George Gissing

Fruit large, obovate, regular in outline and handsome, greenish-yellow, with a tinge of pale red next the sun, covered with numerous gray-russet specks, so numerous sometimes as to appear like network; flesh yellowish, breaking, tender, very juicy, sweet and richly flavored; good.
— from The Pears of New York by U. P. Hedrick

Fine lot o' rabbits inside o' there—big fat 'uns.
— from The Travelling Companions: A Story in Scenes by F. Anstey

Some of the ideas she had left far behind, but she still believed in them as fragments of truth suitable for feeble growing souls that could not bear the full light of revelation in one burst.
— from Marm Lisa by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin