“ What poor knight?” asked Mrs. Epanchin, looking round at the face of each of the speakers in turn.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A further necessity in such cases, when the patient can take nothing or brings everything up again, is to introduce sufficient fluid into the system to avert such injury to the kidneys as might endanger life.
— from On the Edge of the Primeval Forest Experiences and Observations of a Doctor in Equatorial Africa by Albert Schweitzer

Neglect of zoology in Ceylon 3 Labours of Dr. Davy 3 Followed by Dr. Templeton and others 4 Dr. Kelaart and Mr. E.L. Layard 4 Monkeys 5 The Rilawa, Macacus pileatus 5 Wanderoos 5 Knox's account of them 5 Error regarding the Silenus Veter (note) 6 Presbytes Cephalopterus 7 Fond of eating flowers 7 A white monkey 8 Method of the flight of monkeys 9 P. Ursinus in the Hills 9 P. Thersites in the Wanny 10 P. Priamus, Jaffna and Trincomalie 10 No dead monkey ever found 11 Loris 12 Bats 13 Flying Fox, Pteropus Edwardsii 14 Their numbers at Peradenia 16 Singularity of their attitudes 17 Food and mode of eating 18 Horse-shoe bat, Rhinolophus 19 Faculty of smell in bat 19 A tiny bat, Scotophilus foromandelicus 20 Extraordinary parasite of the bat, the Nycteribia 20 Carnivora .—Bears
— from Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon by Tennent, James Emerson, Sir

“You know about my earlier life,” he began; “how, in my boyhood, after mother's death, I worked at anything I could do to keep myself alive, and how I managed to gain a little schooling.
— from The Re-Creation of Brian Kent by Harold Bell Wright

"It is a document which would seem to prove conclusively that the young lady hitherto known as Miss Eleanor Lloyd was not the daughter of the late Mr. Jacob Lloyd--nor indeed any relative of his whatever, but simply the child of some unknown parents, adopted by Mr. Lloyd and his wife out of charity or compassion."
— from A Secret of the Sea: A Novel. Vol. 3 (of 3) by T. W. (Thomas Wilkinson) Speight

Their skins are the colour of the bark, their bodies have knots and markings exactly like twigs.
— from In the West Country by Francis A. (Francis Arnold) Knight

“KOSHKONONG” AND “MAN EATER” Lake Koshkonong is one of the most beautiful sheets of water in Wisconsin.
— from The Wisconsin Magazine of History, Volume 1, 1917-1918 by Various

drank only water, and his sobriety was truly apostolic; but this was not the case with the abbes attached to his service, for these gentlemen each day required five bottles of Chambertin wine, without counting those of other kinds and most expensive liquors.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon by Various