“We have new laws, Evremonde, and new offences, since you were here.”
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Many other species from China, Japan, California, etc., are occasionally cultivated, but few are large enough to be called trees, and those that are large enough are not of sufficient importance to need specific notice.
— from Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination by A. C. (Austin Craig) Apgar

It was the good chaplain, led by the same instinct that brings a mother to her sick child's pillow; for long experience as nurse of souls had taught him to see the signs of hope in the hard faces about him, and to know when the moment came for a helpful word and the cordial of sincere prayer that brings such comfort and healing to tried and troubled hearts.
— from Jo's Boys by Louisa May Alcott

Combined with line engraving a number of small illustrations were published in the nineteenth century.
— from The Book: Its History and Development by Cyril Davenport

For larger engravings a number of sections were mortised together.
— from Why Bewick Succeeded: A Note in the History of Wood Engraving by Jacob Kainen

[35] I like your plan of teaching by letter exceedingly: and not only so, but have myself adopted it largely, with the help of an intelligent under-master, whose operations, however, so far from interfering with, you will much facilitate, if you can bring this literary way of teaching into more accepted practice.
— from Arrows of the Chace, vol. 1/2 being a collection of scattered letters published chiefly in the daily newspapers 1840-1880 by John Ruskin

[12] The cosmopolitanism of the mediaeval centres of learning encouraged a number of such French students to come to England.
— from The Teaching and Cultivation of the French Language in England during Tudor and Stuart Times With an Introductory Chapter on the Preceding Period by K. Rebillon (Kathleen Rebillon) Lambley

There was a streak of blood over his left eyebrow, and no other sign of injury.
— from The Eternal City by Caine, Hall, Sir

Common law enactments against neglect of school duties, on which a higher fine is imposed, shall not be affected by the provision of No. 4. 11.
— from The Theory and Policy of Labour Protection by A. (Albert) Schäffle