As I walked along, I kept glancing up at these boards, confidently expecting to see a few of them change into something; and I never turned a corner suddenly without looking out for the clown and pantaloon, who, I had no doubt, were hiding in a doorway or behind some pillar close at hand.
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

Another fact should be borne in mind: cellulose is a substance invariably present in the vegetable kingdom, and is found both in low and high plants; it is present in the fungus as well as in the palm, in the lichen as well as in the oak; it is not subject to climatic influences nor to atmospheric changes, so that its quantity in all plants is always the same.
— from The History of Salt With Observations on the Geographical Distribution, Geological Formation, and Medicinal and Dietetic Properties by Evan Martlett Boddy

It is not that any complicated system of joint ownership limits the use of these animals to communal purposes, for pigs and fowls are owned by individuals absolutely, and though the native will often treat one of his pigs (called a ngai ) with an almost Hibernian indulgence, and pet and feed it in his house like one of his children, this affection does not prevent him from slaughtering it and eating his share of it, when he considers it sufficiently fat.
— from The Fijians: A Study of the Decay of Custom by Basil Thomson

As the swine then fed at the fountain, so it is necessary that a cavern should be found in its vicinity; and this seems to coincide, in distance and situation, with that of the poem.
— from Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore

The forelady said to me when I left: 'My! I never thought anybody could stand it's long's you have.'"
— from The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls by Van Vorst, John, Mrs.

But as it is necessary that a constant supply of seamen should be provided, I think it not improper to observe, that there is one expedient yet remaining, by which, though it will not much assist us in our present exigence, the fleets of this nation may hereafter be constantly supported.
— from The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Volume 10 Parlimentary Debates I by Samuel Johnson

] Kashiku, is not that a cat Stealing stealthily there?
— from The Vampire Cat A Play in one act from the Japanese legend of the Nabeshima cat by Gerard Van Etten

It is not that any chasm separates our history before it from our history after it as the chasm of the Revolution divides the history of France, for we have traced 2-101] the rudiments of our constitution to the first moment of the English settlement in Britain.
— from History of the English People, Volume II The Charter, 1216-1307; The Parliament, 1307-1400 by John Richard Green

These various circumstances render miscarriages more frequent amongst these uncivilized tribes than amongst European nations, and the first years and bloom of a female generally elapse before she has any children; but then a fresh cause exists to prevent their having very large families, which is that, from the nature of the food used by the natives, it is necessary that a child should have good strong teeth before it can be even partially weaned.
— from Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2 by Grey, George, Sir

The Marquis of Dorset's house gave its name to a court subsequently built on its site.
— from Westminster by G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton