In North America, the Millstone Grit rarely reaches 1000 feet in thickness; and, like its British equivalent, consists of coarse sandstones and grits, sometimes with regular conglomerates.
— from The Ancient Life History of the Earth A Comprehensive Outline of the Principles and Leading Facts of Palæontological Science by Henry Alleyne Nicholson

One chief cause of superiority will lie in the division of labor instituted by each colony; or, in other words, in the localization of the colony's functions.
— from Darwiniana; Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism by Asa Gray

Few of my lodgers, I believe, ever came of a better."
— from Amelia — Volume 2 by Henry Fielding

Helen could scarcely believe, when she tried afterwards to recollect, that she had literally this day, during the whole of the first course, heard only the following sentences, which came out at long intervals between each couple of questions and answers—or observations and acquiescences:—“We had a shower.
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 10 Helen by Maria Edgeworth

The interest, therefore, ought at least not to be less in becoming expressly conscious of this daily action of our thinking selves, than confessedly belongs to the study of the functions of organic life, such as the processes of digestion, assimilation, respiration, or even the processes and structures of the nature around us.
— from The Logic of Hegel by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

These are laid in blocks, each containing one hundred and twelve tiles, enclosed in a wooden framework.
— from Faces and Places by Lucy, Henry W. (Henry William), Sir