That he was naturally of a very wan and pallid aspect, however, his hollow cheeks, sharp features, and sunken eyes, no less than a certain look of patient endurance, sufficiently testified.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

And many of our own age and of former ages have noted that the true Lacedaemonian type of character has the love of philosophy even stronger than the love of gymnastics; they are conscious that only a perfectly educated man is capable of uttering such expressions.
— from Protagoras by Plato

Over 20 4,255 5,012 4,496 4,268 4,093 3,747 3,700 3,676 3,445 2,358 1,190 672 403 135 41 ... 4,180 4,815 4,407 4,103 3,951 3,593 3,646 3,631 3,271 2,291 1,163 680 358 156 52 22 8,435 9,827 8,903 8,371 8,044 7,340 7,346 7,307 6,716 4,649 2,353 1,352 761 291 93 22 Total 41,491 40,319 81,810 An attempt was made to follow up the cases of all the children who had left one public elementary school during the period of one year preceding the study.
— from Wage Earning and Education by R. R. (Rufus Rolla) Lutz

But the languages of the American continents have been estimated to exceed twelve hundred and sixty, including agglutinate languages of peculiarly elaborate structure, and inflectional forms of complex development.
— from Prehistoric Man Researches into the Origin of Civilization in the Old and the New World by Wilson, Daniel, Sir

[pg 699] From the foregoing it is thus very easy to perceive that in order to prove the Huxley-Hæckelian theories of the descent of man, it is not one, but a great number of “missing links” —a true ladder of progressive evolutionary steps—that would have to be first found and then presented by Science to thinking and reasoning humanity, before it would abandon belief in Gods and the immortal Soul for the worship of quadrumanic ancestors.
— from The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 2 of 4 by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky

The weighing of liquid or pasty extracts should be as rapid as possible, as they lose weight on the balance by evaporation.
— from The Principles of Leather Manufacture by H. R. (Henry Richardson) Procter

Double stars with complementary colors.—A, B, C, D, planets ; S, S′, double central sun ; S, larger sun, with dark absorption spectrum, yellow-red, or orange ; S′, smaller sun, many bright lines, bluish-white ; E, E′, lines of planetary energy; S, S′ also show self-repulsion of their solar electrospheres.
— from The Source and Mode of Solar Energy Throughout the Universe by Isaac W. (Isaac Winter) Heysinger

He was a lad of, perhaps, eighteen, slender, lithe, dark.
— from The Six River Motor Boat Boys on the St. Lawrence; Or, The Lost Channel by Harry Gordon

No other persons were to receive, dispatch or deliver letters or packets except such as were sent by masters or merchants in ships of which, or of the cargo of which, they were entirely or in part owners, or “except letters to be sent by any private Friend or Friends in their ways of journey or Travel, or by any Messenger or Messengers sent of purpose for or concerning the private affairs of any person or persons.”
— from The Early History of the Colonial Post-Office by Mary Emma Woolley

BOOK I II III IV V LIST OF PREVIOUS EDITIONS SHORTER POEMS.
— from Poetical Works of Robert Bridges, Volume 2 by Robert Bridges