This may have satisfied the practical Semite mind, but the Eastern Occultist has to decline the offer of such a God; indeed, a Deity, a Being, “having a mind like that of man, only infinitely more powerful,” is no God that has any room beyond the cycle of creation.
— from The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 2 of 4 by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky

In many places it never got to the point of an alphabet, and this arrest of development is not inconsistent with a high degree of civilization.
— from Books Before Typography A Primer of Information About the Invention of the Alphabet and the History of Book-Making up to the Invention of Movable Types Typographic Technical Series for Apprentices #49 by Frederick W. (Frederick William) Hamilton

Should the weather prove favourable, it begins to build early in May, placing its nest generally beneath the eaves {242} of a house, often against a perpendicular wall: without any projecting ledge to support any part of the nest, its utmost efforts are necessary to get the first foundation firmly fixed, so as to carry the superstructure safely.
— from Mrs. Loudon's Entertaining Naturalist Being popular descriptions, tales, and anecdotes of more than Five Hundred Animals. by Mrs. (Jane) Loudon

But notwithstanding its fine proportions, its muscular power is not great, and its extreme pace is not to be compared with that of the merlin.
— from The Art and Practice of Hawking by E. B. (Edward Blair) Michell

35 Lant Street, as Bob Sawyer informed Mr. Pickwick, is near Guy’s Hospital, “little distance after you’ve passed St. George’s Church—turns out of the High Street on the right-hand side of the way.”
— from The Dickens Country by Frederic George Kitton

I’ve bawl’d till I am sick; But ready money is my plan; I never gives no tick.
— from A History of the Cries of London, Ancient and Modern by Charles Hindley

I've bawl'd till I am sick; But ready money is my plan; I never gives no tick.
— from Gallery of Comicalities; Embracing Humorous Sketches by Robert Cruikshank