You have fairly acknowledged that Colonel Hungerford possesses every virtue, public and private, that can make him worthy of you—not a single fault on which to ground one possible, imaginable, rational but .
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 07 Patronage [part 1] by Maria Edgeworth

State interference in social relations becomes, in one domain after another, superfluous, and then dies out of itself; the government of persons is replaced by the administration of things, and by the conduct of processes of production.
— from Socialism: Positive and Negative by Robert Rives La Monte

It was thought unnecessary to give them in detail:— Dr. Alexander Haig considers that 88 grammes of proteid is required by a man leading a decidedly active life.
— from The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition by A. W. Duncan

A monarch, walking delicately like Agag towards the gates of Paradise, is remorselessly barred by St Peter, and directed to the opposite road.
— from Northern Spain by Edgar Thomas Ainger Wigram

A rather remarkable group of pendants is represented by Fig.
— from Art in Shell of the Ancient Americans Second annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-81, pages 179-306 by William Henry Holmes

In compliance with the petition of the citizens of London, a bill passed the House of Commons to prevent the granting of places in reversion; but it was opposed and thrown out by the Lords.
— from Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 2 by Henry Hunt