it's outer appearance is that of a tube of a Monopetallous corolla swelling as it ascends and gliding in such manner into the limb that it Cannot be Said where the Style ends or the Stigma begins, jointly they are as long as the Gorilla, while the limb is four cleft, Sauser Shaped, and the margin of the lobes entire and rounded.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Old callous stricture, its form, &c. Spasmodic stricture of the urethra by the urethral muscles.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

Second: This arrangement is indispensable for common safety’s sake; for were the lower end of the line in any way attached to the boat, and were the whale then to run the line out to the end almost in a single, smoking minute as he sometimes does, he would not stop there, for the doomed boat would infallibly be dragged down after him into the profundity of the sea; and in that case no town-crier would ever find her again.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Put the point of your pencil on one of the white stars and (without ever lifting your pencil from the paper) strike out all the stars in fourteen continuous straight strokes, ending at the second white star.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

In front came several singers and behind, some musicians with the usual civil-guards.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

Meanwhile I will briefly, and to the best of my ability, explain what I meant to say about these ungrateful men who blasphemously impute to Christ the calamities which they deservedly suffer in consequence of their own wicked ways, while that which is for Christ's sake spared them in spite of their wickedness they do not even take the trouble to notice; and in their mad and blasphemous insolence, they use against His name those very lips wherewith they falsely claimed that same name that their lives might be spared.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

However, as his intention was truly upright, he ought to be excused in foro conscientiae ; since so many arbitrary acts are daily committed by magistrates who have not this excuse to plead for themselves.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Liszt's tonal paraphrase, as he pointed out in a letter to Hans von Bülow, divides itself, after the introduction, into four (connected) sections, superscribed as follows: (1) Aspiration ; (2) Disillusion ; (3) Activity ; (4) Apotheosis .
— from Stories of Symphonic Music A Guide to the Meaning of Important Symphonies, Overtures, and Tone-poems from Beethoven to the Present Day by Lawrence Gilman

Not only did he make a comfortable bunk for himself such as he had frequently constructed when at logging or sugaring-off camps in Vermont, but having several boards left he built along the racks originally intended for canoes some shelves for the books he meant to bring from home.
— from Ted and the Telephone by Sara Ware Bassett