Liwschitz, O. Ueber den Einfluss des Kaffees auf den Eiweis-stoffwechsel beim Menschen.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

The leprosy of unreality disfigured every human creature in attendance upon Monseigneur.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Into the fabric of these the most of us put so much of ourselves that a little of us dies each time a cherished image crumbles from age or is shattered by some lightning-stroke of truth from a cloud electric with doubt.
— from The Seeker by Harry Leon Wilson

He was accustomed to examine, so far as the means were afforded him, lists of unclaimed dividends, estates or bequests waiting for the proper owners, and unclaimed property generally.
— from A History of Advertising from the Earliest Times. by Henry Sampson

it hed fus’ cotch fell in, an’ de sparks shot ’way up in de air; an’ Ham didn’ come back, an’ de fire begun to lick out under de eaves over whar de ker’ige-hosses’ stalls wuz, an’ all of a sudden ole marster tu’ned and kissed ole missis, who wuz standin’ nigh him, wid her face jes’ ez white ez a sperit’s, an’, befo’ anybody knowed what he wuz gwine do, jumped right in de do’, an’ de smoke come po’in’ out behine ’i
— from Stories by American Authors, Volume 9 by Various

Mr. Lawrence went up stairs, one morning, to Bertha's room to amuse the child, as he had been doing of late, and found the young teacher sitting beside her pupil at the piano, trying to direct her practice, and his fine face at once assumed a look of undisguised disapproval, even though Violet glanced up and bade him a smiling good-morning.
— from His Heart's Queen by Sheldon, Georgie, Mrs.