Last of all came Isaac Crittenden, the Boss, tall, gaunt, and stooping, his head canted back [Pg 23] to make up for the crook in his back and his one good eye roving about restlessly.
— from The Texican by Dane Coolidge

As a history of the great evangelical reaction and revival, her work is inadequate, and we question very much whether she has qualified herself, either by sufficient sympathy or sufficient knowledge, to fulfil the requirements of the larger and more comprehensive title of her work.
— from British Quarterly Review, American Edition, Vol. LIV July and October, 1871 by Various

He listens and imitates, at first imperfectly, but later with great expertness, recognizing and reproducing isolated sounds and complex combinations of these.
— from The Principles of Language-Study by Harold E. Palmer

These investigations have been of infinite use to chemists in all their investigations respecting the specific gravity of gases, and have enabled them to resolve various interesting problems, both respecting specific gravity, evaporation, rain and respiration, which, 289 had it not been for the principles laid down in this essay, would have eluded their grasp.
— from The History of Chemistry, Volume 2 (of 2) by Thomas Thomson

The back of Antony’s neck grew ever redder and redder as he led the way onwards; finally the drawing-room door was flung open, and across a space of chintz, and tapestry, and massed-up roses, Juliet beheld two figures rise hurriedly in welcome.
— from What a Man Wills by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

Coming with so many titles to claim your esteem, it were needless, for any other purpose than to indulge my own feelings, to add, that I have a very particular friendship for him; and that, whatever services you may have it in your power to render him, will confer an obligation on one who has the honour to be—with the greatest esteem, regard, and respect, sir, &c. TO GENERAL WASHINGTON.
— from Memoirs, Correspondence and Manuscripts of General Lafayette by Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de

Beneath these mountain ranges and in the outer [Pg 27] crust of its surface are many cavities or openings we call volcanoes connected by powerful currents of magnetism constantly circulating from the equator to the poles; and when there is an influx of water or other substance sufficient to generate electric resistance and repulsion, a fuse burns out in the circuit at that point, the volcano sparks, blazes, explodes with great force, and shoots its molten lava into the clouds, or, like Mount Pelee, blows its head off.
— from The Universe a Vast Electric Organism by Geo. W. (George Woodward) Warder

Once in seven years the great Earl rises, and rides by night on his white horse round Lough Gur.
— from Irish Witchcraft and Demonology by St. John D. (St. John Drelincourt) Seymour

"He is," said the Inca, "like a tied beast who goes ever round and round in the same track" (Chips, etc., 2, 113).
— from The Classic Myths in English Literature and in Art (2nd ed.) (1911) Based Originally on Bulfinch's "Age of Fable" (1855) by Thomas Bulfinch