You may be disturbing an invalid unawares, or you may prevent your friend, if she has children, from coming down stairs at all, by waking the baby.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

Even in his old age he was said to have consumed fifty cups daily.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

[70] After the formation of Highland County five counties destined to lie in West Virginia were established.
— from How Justice Grew: Virginia Counties, An Abstract of Their Formation by Martha W. (Martha Woodroof) Hiden

Pete did not tell that he had gone without bread and tea for weeks that he might have a little for the "Colonel" and Constance, whom he had intended to invite to his cabin for Christmas dinner.
— from The Frontiersman: A Tale of the Yukon by H. A. (Hiram Alfred) Cody

When we see a mother struggling to death, and with admirable self-devotion, against overpowering waves, or ferocious beasts, or devouring flames, to save her child from certain destruction, it would be s
— from A Guide for the Religious Instruction of Jewish Youth by Isaac Samuel Reggio

But an adroitly handled cavalry force can do a good deal in the way of “containing” an Oriental city.
— from The Cradle of Mankind; Life in Eastern Kurdistan by Edgar Thomas Ainger Wigram

how is it to be done?" ejaculated Martin-Roget, and he brought his clenched fist crashing down upon the table.
— from Lord Tony's Wife: An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

Professor Huxley continues, “Few can doubt that, if not the whole cause, it is a very important factor in that operation.”
— from Unconscious Memory by Samuel Butler

A number of phenomena connected with the linear rate of regeneration are illustrated and epitomised in the accompanying diagram (Fig. 40 ), which I have constructed from certain data given by Ellis in a paper on the relation of the amount of tail regenerated to the amount removed , in Tadpoles.
— from On Growth and Form by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

Here I did very well indeed, having a mattress of good skin-dressings, and plenty to eat every day of my life, but the butter was something to cry “but” thrice at (according to a conceit of our school days), and the milk must have come from cows driven to water.
— from Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore