" "That is nice," said Celia, comfortably.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

The only exception I can think of to this rule is aventurine,[1] a substance known to mineralogists, which in its natural state cannot compare with the artificial preparation of it.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims by Arthur Schopenhauer

In such cases, there is no subordinate conditional clause.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

LESSON XLIII, § 245 animal, animâlis (-ium 1 ) , n., animal avis, avis (-ium) , f., bird (aviation) caedês, caedis (-ium) , f., slaughter calcar, calcâris (-ium), n., spur cîvis, cîvis (-ium) , m. and f., citizen (civic) cliêns, clientis (-ium) , m., retainer, dependent (client) fînis, fînis (-ium) , m., end, limit (final); plur., country, territory hostis, hostis (-ium) , m. and f., enemy in war (hostile).
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

s. is not, S, C, C2; see Nam .
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

It is precisely when one [Pg 325] perceives that there is no such central controlling and responsible force that one is relieved!
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Whole days have I passed in these Titanic efforts, considering my labor well repaid if, by night-time I had contrived to carry away a square inch of this hard-bound cement, changed by ages into a substance unyielding as the stones themselves; then to conceal the mass of earth and rubbish I dug up, I was compelled to break through a staircase, and throw the fruits of my labor into the hollow part of it; but the well is now so completely choked up, that I scarcely think it would be possible to add another handful of dust without leading to discovery.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

= miht māl I. n. suit, cause, case, action, terms, agreement, covenanted pay , Chr .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

All along the line fierce and relentless war waged without interruption and if neither side could claim victory, neither side suffered defeat.
— from Aunt Jane's Nieces in the Red Cross by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

‘Indeed,’ said I, ‘I am glad to hear it, but I hope you find him steady?’ ‘Steady, steady,’ said he, ‘why, yes, he’s steady, I cannot say that he is not steady.’ ‘Come, come,’ said I, beginning to be rather uneasy, ‘I see plainly that you are not altogether satisfied with him; I was afraid you would not be, for, though he is my own son, I am anything but blind to his imperfections: but do tell me what particular fault you have to find with him; and I will do my best to make him alter his conduct.’
— from Lavengro: The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest by George Borrow

New lines began immediately to be laid out, and in an incredibly short time the face of England was scarred by the main trunks in that network of iron roads with which its whole surface is now so closely covered.
— from Biographies of Working Men by Grant Allen

She saw before her now the outward and visible form of the genius she revered—a very handsome man, a man whose knowledge how to make himself agreeable to women must obviously have been got by much and intimate experience; a man whose sensuous eyes and obstreperous masculinity of thick waving hair and thick crisp reddish beard, roused in her the distrust bred by ages on ages of enforced female wariness of the male that is ever on conquest bent and is never so completely conqueror as when conquered.
— from Light-Fingered Gentry by David Graham Phillips

"I do not mean to say, my lord, that I believe such was his real name; for I do not: but I never saw Captain Churchill at all; and I never saw this gentleman till the moment when he came to my aid and rescued me, with the assistance of another, from the hands of as desperate a set of men as I ever met in my life, and who would certainly have murdered me had it not been for his arrival.
— from The King's Highway by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

olfactory pit; v. septum between stomodæum and mesenteron; h. thyroid involution; n. spinal cord; ch. notochord; c. heart; a. auditory vesicle.
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 3 (of 4) A Treatise on Comparative Embryology: Vertebrata by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour