Having thus made a long capitulation with our travellers, I took them all on board, and had leisure enough to have a long narration from them of their voyage; and from which account, I take the liberty to recommend that part of America as the best and most advantageous part of the whole globe for an English colony, the climate, the soil, and, above all, the easy communication with the mountains of Chili, recommending it beyond any place that I ever saw or read of, as I shall farther make appear by itself.
— from A New Voyage Round the World by a Course Never Sailed Before by Daniel Defoe

He would leave everything to her and let her manage his affairs, and he would grow lazier than ever.”
— from The Third Miss St Quentin by Mrs. Molesworth

I joined the ranks of the penny-a-liners—to be literally exact, three halfpence a liners.
— from Paul Kelver by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

It was a small disappointment amidst the infinite delight of his home-coming, but when he bought the shawl he had fancied himself putting it round Tabitha's ample shoulders in the little housekeeper's room at the Angler's Nest, a room that was just large enough to hold a linen cupboard, a Pembroke table, a comfortable armchair, and Tabitha, who seemed bigger than all the furniture put together.
— from All along the River: A Novel by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

The kitchen sink should be conveniently placed and large enough to hold a large dish pan.
— from Campward Ho! A Manual for Girl Scout Camps by Girl Scouts of the United States of America

The dose should be large enough to have a lethal effect upon the cancer cells at the periphery of the growth as well as in the center.
— from Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Chevalier Jackson

Did a pang never strike into the heart of that cruel woman, as the child would lift its little eyes to hers, and lisp “My mother?”
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. by Various

This last example touched him a little.
— from Memoirs of General Count Rapp, first aide-de-camp to Napoleon by Rapp, Jean, comte

Our stay was brief—-just long enough to have a lost shoe replaced by another upon our horse, and to visit the famous fountains—for, having none of the "ills which flesh is heir to" of sufficient malignity to require the infliction of sulphureted or chalybeate draughts, we were glad to escape to the hills and vales less suggestive of Tophet and the Valley of Hinnom.
— from The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, Vol. 1 (of 2) or, Illustrations, by Pen And Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence by Benson John Lossing

After it is cool, add a few drops of iodin solution slowly, avoiding a large excess though having a little uncombined iodin.
— from Detection of the Common Food Adulterants by Edwin M. Bruce