The ideal gas for belligerent purposes would be odorless, colorless and invisible, toxic even when diluted by a million parts of air, not set on fire or exploded by the detonator of the shell, not decomposed by water, not readily absorbed, stable enough to stand storage for six months and capable of being manufactured by the thousands of tons.
— from Creative Chemistry: Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries by Edwin E. (Edwin Emery) Slosson

Its great frequency, being present in about one-third of all cases of spermatorrhea, and its disposition to result in impotency and wasting away of the testicles, bring it constantly before the profession.
— from The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand by Ray Vaughn Pierce

While ultimately the country reached the ideal of the most pronounced hard-money men of pulling the greenback up to 100 cents in gold, it was at the cost of six years of falling prices, which spread a pall over real estate and industrial development, and ruined many men who had in good faith bought property at its valuation in paper when paper was the legal-tender money of the country.
— from The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, July, 1913 Vol. LXXXVI. New Series: Vol. LXIV. May to October, 1913 by Various

But in this case it is not easy to tell who is guilty, for both parties are at once complainants and defendants.
— from Plays by August Strindberg, First Series by August Strindberg

The limit, which has a tendency to prevent wild and unreasonable betting, is generally fixed before play begins.
— from Round Games with Cards A Practical Treatise on All the Most Popular Games, with Their Different Variations, and Hints for Their Practice by W. H. Peel

In moderate weather resting places in grass forms, brush piles and thickets were used.
— from Home Range and Movements of the Eastern Cottontail in Kansas by Donald W. Janes

I was especially interested in the manner in which the Indians get fish by poisoning them.
— from Up the Mazaruni for Diamonds by William La Varre

When they shall come to translate, it will be their endeavour to be faithful, if grammatical faithfulness be possible in a case so desperate.
— from A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. by Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener