“I've got a sled standing outside now, with twenty fiftypound sacks of flour on it,” Matthewson went on with brutal directness; “so don't let that hinder you.”
— from The Call of the Wild by Jack London

I have to go and see some one ... not far from here," he added in an apologetic voice, somewhat abashed.
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Finally, as time hung heavy on his hands in the seclusion enforced by political storms, he taught his pupil Latin and Greek and some smatterings of natural science.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

I was elected an honorary member of the Geographical and Statistical Society of New York, U.S. on the 15th May, 1857, and on the 15th October, 1869, I was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society at Philadelphia, for Promoting Useful Knowledge.
— from Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville by Mary Somerville

Oil of turpentine, tincture of guaiacum, and sweet spirit of nitre, of each 1 oz.; oils of amber and cloves, of each 15 drops.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I by Richard Vine Tuson

We've got a splendid spree on now.
— from The King of Schnorrers: Grotesques and Fantasies by Israel Zangwill

American Geographical and Statistical Society of New York, address before, by Governor Stevens, ii. 284 .
— from The Life of Isaac Ingalls Stevens, Volume 2 (of 2) by Hazard Stevens

"Oh!" and the young man gave a satisfied sort of nod as he uttered this, as much as to say, "That explains it;" and then, dismissing the subject from his mind, turned his whole attention again to his horse, while Laura drew a deep breath of relief.
— from A Flock of Girls and Boys by Nora Perry

I have already been round to several of my friends, and Phillipo Giustiniani and some six others, nearest related to me, will go with me, being all aggrieved at this outrage to a family nearly connected.
— from The Lion of Saint Mark: A Story of Venice in the Fourteenth Century by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

By David Livingstone, LL.D., D.C.L., Fellow of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow; Corresponding Member of the Geographical and Statistical Society of New York; Gold Medalist and Corresponding Member of the Royal Geographical Societies of London and Paris F.S.A., Etc., Etc. H2 anchor Dedication.
— from Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa by David Livingstone

Bacon pointed out to them the true path, and held before them the torch-light of experiment and observation, under whose guidance all successful students of Nature have since walked, and by whose illumination they have gained so wonderful an insight into the mysteries of the natural world.
— from Letters on Astronomy in which the Elements of the Science are Familiarly Explained in Connection with Biographical Sketches of the Most Eminent Astronomers by Denison Olmsted