"I give you this in the first place, Captain Martin, in token of my esteem and of my gratitude for the perilous service you have already rendered; and secondly, as a visible mark of my confidence in you, and as a sign that I have intrusted you with authority to speak for me.
— from By Pike and Dyke: a Tale of the Rise of the Dutch Republic by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

“I wonder,” said Jesse, as he looked around him at the great mountains, “if these old mountains ever have a good time off by themselves in here.
— from The Young Alaskans in the Rockies by Emerson Hough

The mating season over, the female encountering a male in the open must evidently regard him as fair game, and devour him as the termination of the matrimonial rites.
— from Social Life in the Insect World by Jean-Henri Fabre

He also seeks to multiply it that others may eat their ration, and for any theory of his identity with the Totem, this must be a puzzle.
— from The Origin of Man and of His Superstitions by Carveth Read

Thus, while these Negritos have remained untouched by the present-day Malays, who probably entered the country at least several centuries ago, they have evidently derived their language from a Malayan influx that occurred much earlier still.
— from Elements of Folk Psychology Outline of a Psychological History of the Development of Mankind by Wilhelm Max Wundt

Similarly, the fact that all forms of corporeal energy can be measured in terms of mechanical energy does not at all imply that they all really are mechanical energy, but only that natural agents can by the use of one form of energy produce another form in equivalent quantity.
— from Ontology, or the Theory of Being by P. (Peter) Coffey

Human efficiency is not measured in terms of muscular energy nor of intellectual grasp.
— from Increasing Human Efficiency in Business A Contribution to the Psychology of Business by Walter Dill Scott

Other settlements were naturally made in the open meadows easily accessible from the Bay road; and so we find the next community growing up in what is now the Falls Village, where a corn mill was erected in 1686.
— from The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, January 1886 Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, January, 1886 by Various