Mrs. Kenwigs, my dear, will you sort the counters?’ Mrs. Kenwigs, with the assistance of Newman Noggs, (who, as he performed sundry little acts of kindness for the children, at all times and seasons, was humoured in his request to be taken no notice of, and was merely spoken about, in a whisper, as the decayed gentleman), did as he was desired; and the greater part of the guests sat down to speculation, while Newman himself, Mrs. Kenwigs, and Miss Petowker of the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, looked after the supper-table.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

When, on the other hand, L and M, the common iliac arteries, divide, immediately after leaving the aortic trunk, into two pairs of branches, they correspond to the abnormal condition of the vessels, H I K, above; where H, immediately after leaving the aortic arch, divides into two branches, like I K. With this generalization upon the normal and abnormal facts of arrangement, exhibited among the vessels arising from both ends of the aorta, I furnish to the reader the idea that the vessels, H I K, above may present of the same figure as the vessels, L M, below, and these latter may assume the character of H I K, above.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

For in whatever world I may find myself, I hope I shall always love our poor little spheroid, so long my home, which some kind angel may point out to me as a gilded globule swimming in the sunlight far away.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Kolb and Marion pulled off the impressions from one form while David worked another press with Cerizet, and superintended the printing in various inks.
— from Lost Illusions by Honoré de Balzac

The joint stock banks now keep a main part of their reserve on deposit with the bill-brokers, or in good and convertible interest-bearing securities.
— from Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market by Walter Bagehot

He was a Silva—for the "de" was acquired from the king after much pettifoggery on the part of that monarch with the prognathic jaw—and he was of Portuguese blood.
— from Promenades of an Impressionist by James Huneker

The best known and most popular of these lakes are Fern and Odessa.
— from The Rocky Mountain Wonderland by Enos A. Mills

Long sittings between the Russians, Kühlmann, and myself, part of the time with Hoffmann.
— from In the World War by Czernin von und zu Chudenitz, Ottokar Theobald Otto Maria, Graf

There was a time when I was a very narrow provincial, but happily the circumstances of my life made it necessary that I should go to a very distant part of the country, and I early found out what a very limited acquaintance I had with the United States, found out that the only thing that would give me any sense at all in discussing the affairs of the United States was to know as many parts of the United States as possible.
— from The New Freedom A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People by Woodrow Wilson

Undoubtedly it was remorse; remorse for the numberless lives needlessly sacrificed, the needless suffering entailed on humanity by the one war of his reign--the conquest of Kalînga, a maritime province on the sea-board of the Bay of Bengal.
— from India Through the Ages: A Popular and Picturesque History of Hindustan by Flora Annie Webster Steel