It should be added that Holst and Froelich (1912) failed to cure scurvy in guinea-pigs by intraperitoneal inoculations of orange juice.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

"Thanks for the compliment," said the sergeant gaily, taking Bathsheba by the hand and leading her to the top of the dance.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

If any respite from that calamity should come, that they would afford aid to their allies, as they had done the year before, and always on other occasions."
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

Look that thou pass him not on the way; for the circumcised slave was displaying his stolen finery amongst us.”
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

For example, Common Sense may seem to regard Liberality, Frugality, Courage, Placability, as intrinsically desirable: but when we consider their relation respectively to Profusion, Meanness, Foolhardiness, Weakness, we find that Common Sense draws the line in each case not by immediate intuition, but by reference either to some definite maxim of duty, or to the general notion of ‘Good’ or Wellbeing: and similarly when we ask at what point Candour, Generosity, Humility cease to be virtues by becoming ‘excessive.’
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

"We are come to join you," said the Captain; for the crowd seems shoreless.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

see, in such fusillade the column 'soon breaks itself by diversity of opinion,' into distracted segments, this way and that;—to escape in holes, to die fighting from street to street.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

I suffered a martyrdom, for these compliments seemed to be given with malicious intent.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Antis`thenes , a Greek philosopher, a disciple of Socrates, the master of Diogenes, and founder of the Cynic school; affected to disdain the pride and pomp of the world, and was the first to carry staff and wallet as the badge of philosophy, but so ostentatiously as to draw from Socrates the rebuke, "I see your pride looking out through the rent of your cloak, O Antisthenes." Anti-Taurus , a mountain range running NE. from the Taurus Mts.
— from The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall

“Here, where each creeping day the creeping file Draws past with shouldered comrades score on score, Bearing them to their lightless last asile, Where weary wave-wails from the clammy shore Will reach their ears no more.
— from The Dynasts: An Epic-Drama of the War with Napoleon by Thomas Hardy

There must, therefore, be some constitutional tendency to corruption in the larch, which is excited by a combination of circumstances; and we must limit our knowledge for the present to the fact, that certain soils, perhaps slightly modified by other circumstances, produce sound, and others unsound larch, without admitting any general influence from altitude, excepting in so far as its antiseptic influence may go.
— from On Naval Timber and Arboriculture With Critical Notes on Authors who have Recently Treated the Subject of Planting by Patrick Matthew

In external beauty ‘Imagination and Fancy’ equals any gift-books that have appeared; and it will form a more enduring memorial than any other volume that might he selected as a gift for the coming season.”— Spectator.
— from A Sketch of Assam: With some account of the Hill Tribes by Butler, John, Major

and a broad lightning filling the concave, shewed us for one moment the level beach a-head, disclosing even the sands, and stunted, ooze-sprinkled beds of reeds, that grew at high water mark.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley