"There's some extra-ordinary things in newspapers, for example," said the mariner.
— from The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

As may be gathered, therefore, the discount rates ruling on the London market are of great importance to the Eastern bankers and exchange dealers: so important are they in fact, that it is necessary for each side to keep in direct telegraphic communication regarding the existing discount quotations and the probable trend of the markets....
— from Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Chester Arthur Phillips

There was hope for them in that direction if no fresh explosion should take place.
— from Taking Tales: Instructive and Entertaining Reading by William Henry Giles Kingston

An absolute majority of the votes cast is necessary for election, save that, following two unsuccessful attempts to procure such a majority within a district, at the third trial a simple plurality is sufficient.
— from The Governments of Europe by Frederic Austin Ogg

But if the whole gowne be not silke or velvet, then the same shall be layd with lace two or three fingers broade all over the gowne, or els the most parte, or if not so (as lace is not fine enough sometimes), then it must bee garded with great gardes of velvet, every yard fower or sixe fingers broad at the least, and edged with costly lace, and as these gownes be of divers and sundry colours, so are they of divers fashions—chaunging with the moone—for some be of new fashion, some of the olde, some of thys fashion, and some of that; some with sleeves hanging downe to their skirtes, trailing on the ground, and cast over their shoulders like cows' tailes; some have sleeves muche shorter, cut vp the arme and poincted with silke ribbons, very gallantly tied with true love's knottes (for so they call them); some have capes reachyng downe to the midest of their backes, faced with velvet, or els with some wrought silke taffatie at the least, and fringed about very bravely (and to shut vp all in a worde), some are peerled and rinsled downe the backe wonderfully, with more [89] knackes than I can declare.
— from The Corset and the Crinoline A Book of Modes and Costumes from Remote Periods to the Present Time by William Barry Lord

Montmagny is fairly near the railway station, but the other places are on the river front and a drive of a mile or two is necessary from each station to reach a town.
— from Summer Provinces by the Sea A description of the Vacation Resources of Eastern Quebec and the Maritime Provinces of Canada, in the territory served by the Canadian Government Railways by Prince Edward Island Railway

It is not full enough: since ten of the simple single articulate sounds have no corresponding signs whereby they may be expressed.
— from A Handbook of the English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham

The reason of the thing, of course, makes it necessary for every State to judge for itself when it considers a case of necessity has arisen, and it is therefore impossible to lay down a hard-and-fast rule regarding the question when a State can or cannot have recourse to self-help which violates another State.
— from International Law. A Treatise. Volume 1 (of 2) Peace. Second Edition by L. (Lassa) Oppenheim

Even though the growth may be completed before these ages, ossification of the bones is not fully effected, so that development is incomplete.
— from Plain Facts for Old and Young by John Harvey Kellogg

If the boat were actually unseen, the governor believed the impression was sufficient to keep the savages aloof for a long time, if not for ever; since they would not fail to ascribe the roar, and the smoke of the volcano, and all the mysteries of the place, to supernatural agencies.
— from The Crater; Or, Vulcan's Peak: A Tale of the Pacific by James Fenimore Cooper