That is slang again, but never mind; Arthur says that every day.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

To the credit of the physicians of Cairo as a class, it should be recorded that they looked with unsympathetic eyes upon this attempt on the part of one of their number to stir up trouble for a valuable adjunct to their materia medica, and so the effort died a-borning.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

They are a blot upon our institutions, a stain upon our morality, a scandal to every decent eye.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 15, Nos. 85-90, April 1872-September 1872 A Monthly Magazine by Various

Their properties are well known: a sandy soil is loose, easily moved, little retentive of moisture, and subject to extreme dryness; an argillaceous soil is hard and compact when dry, tough and paste-like when wet, greedy and tenacious of moisture; turns up, when ploughed, into massive clods, and admits the entrance of roots with great difficulty.
— from The Rural Magazine, and Literary Evening Fire-Side, Vol. 1 No. 04 (1820) by Various

Yet tireless was he, certainly, if ever mortal yet: He marched and stamped that earth did shake, and laid the dust with sweat; But at the word to change or move he missed the meaning quite: When "Left face!"
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 20, No. 33, November 1877 by Various

The roots of the giant evil, intemperance, are not merely moral and social; they extend deep and wide into the financial and political structure of the government; and whenever women, or men, shall intelligently and seriously set themselves about the work of uprooting the liquor traffic, they will find something more than tears and prayers needful to the task.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

[100] We looked behind the war map and saw the elevator door, but could not open it.
— from The Man Who Fell Through the Earth by Carolyn Wells

when, in the first act, we are taken into the “room in the Tower” in which Clarence is murdered, and see the evil deed performed as, later in the play, we are again in the Tower at the smothering of the sleeping Princes, we feel that Shakespeare has in these moving scenes brought {8} before our eyes the grim reality of two evil deeds done in secret within the prison-house set up by William the Norman and Henry III.
— from The Tower of London by Arthur Poyser

The nobleman is only courteous and agreeable to the not nobly born as long as the two are alone; if there are several nobles present, they run together like mercury, and show their esprit de corps to the outsider.
— from Problematic Characters: A Novel by Friedrich Spielhagen