All the time I was getting ready I never dared drive past W.O.‘s place for fear the sight of that fine house of his would put me in the swithers again.
— from Anne of the Island by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

It cannot be wrong to repeat here in substance, what has indeed been said already in another connection, that Production as a general rule is no dead level of monotonous exertion,—no going forth and coming back on precisely the same track,—since its sphere is Life with all its wants and Man with all his desires; since there is scope and verge enough for the development of ingenious minds in almost all of its departments; and since its ultimate goal is beyond the ken of man.
— from Principles of Political Economy by Arthur Latham Perry

Thus after the extraction of the polypus mentioned, the nostril gradually resumes its natural diameter.
— from General Anatomy, Applied to Physiology and Medicine, Vol. 2 (of 3) by Xavier Bichat

Their discretion as regards extensions, combinations, consolidations, leases, and purchases, ought to be greatly reduced, if not destroyed.
— from Monopolies and the People by D. C. Cloud

—Urine consists of a variety of earthy and alkaline salts, and of certain organic substances, generally rich in nitrogen, dissolved in a large quantity of water.
— from Elements of Agricultural Chemistry by Thomas Anderson

As a general rule, I never do find consuls in.
— from Italian Journeys by William Dean Howells

A little gentle ridicule is no doubt intended to be conveyed by the word."
— from Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia by Edward Ellis Morris

Of sentimental interest, I say, for rarely, if ever, does genius repeat itself, nor do different environing circumstances weld and mould genius in the same way.
— from Shakespeare's Family by C. C. (Charlotte Carmichael) Stopes

But in a postscript General Jomini takes special pains to express his opinion that General Reille is not “deserving of the least censure” for having deferred putting his corps in motion from Gosselies for Frasnes, on the morning of the 16th, until he had communicated Girard’s information to Marshal Ney.
— from The Campaign of Waterloo: A Military History Third Edition by John Codman Ropes