Because after many appeals to the sympathies of New England, made by strangers of Boston, through the newspapers, and after the establishment of an office there for the reception of moneyed contributions for the Jaffa colonists, One Dollar was subscribed.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

The posterior end of the thorax does not rise to the level of the summit of the mouth; and the thorax seems of no service, excepting perhaps as a sort of outer lip to protect the mouth.
— from A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 1 of 2) The Lepadidae; Or, Pedunculated Cirripedes by Charles Darwin

All the gentlemen at the New House left it together, and its ladies were once more abandoned to the society of Nature, who said little to any of them.
— from What's Mine's Mine — Volume 2 by George MacDonald

He was endowed not only with the poet's susceptibility to the beauty and movement of the outward world, but also with the observing faculty and curiosity of a naturalist: and by both impulses he was more attracted to the solitudes of Nature than to the haunts of men.
— from The Roman Poets of the Republic, 2nd edition by W. Y. (William Young) Sellar

It is so much added to the stock of national wealth.
— from The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style by Edwin Percy Whipple

The reason is that the soil in such places is so disposed, and, as it were, impregnated, that it produces these fruits; which is a result of the properties of sidereal influences; consequently the seed is spiritually produced in the earth, and putrefies in the earth, and by the operation of the elements generates corporeal matter according to the species of nature.
— from The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry by M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison) Muir

Now when we consider that by one of the general axioms, any equality, when ascertained, is proof of as many other equalities as there are other things equal to either of the two equals; and that by another of those axioms, any ascertained equality is proof of the equality of as many pairs of magnitudes as can be formed by the numerous operations [pg 436] which resolve themselves into the addition of the equals to themselves or to other equals; we cease to wonder that in proportion as a science is conversant about equality, it should afford a more copious supply of marks of marks; and that the sciences of number and extension, which are conversant with little else than equality, should be the most deductive of all the sciences.
— from A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive by John Stuart Mill

The man at the tiller sang out 'No, Sir,' as he put the rudder over and added, 'way 'nuff.
— from Captain Macedoine's Daughter by William McFee