You know you might fall sick,' said Mr Boffin. 'Don't deny it, Mrs Higden, in your obstinacy; you know you might.' Old Betty laughed, and said that she would take the letter and be thankful.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

This reservoir is fixed on the back by means of braces, like a soldier's knapsack.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

A better proof of this latter fact cannot be given than the statement by Von Baer that "the embryos of mammalia, of birds, lizards and snakes, probably also of chelonia, are in the earliest states exceedingly like one another, both as a whole and in the mode of development of their parts; so much so, in fact, that we can often distinguish the embryos only by their size.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

The regular and methodical tenor of his daily labours, which would be deemed rare in the most mechanical pursuits, and might be envied by the mere man of business, loses all semblance of formality in the dignified simplicity of his manners, in the spring and healthful cheerfulness of his spirits.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

3 The system of Roman tactics, the discipline and order of the troops, and the military operations by land and sea, are explained in the third of these didactic collections, which may be ascribed to Constantine or his father Leo.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

The system of Roman tactics, the discipline and order of the troops, and the military operations by land and sea, are explained in the third of these didactic collections, which may be ascribed to Constantine or his father Leo.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

He proved by witnesses that he habitually confessed four times a year, that he took all indulgences and that he was a man of blameless life and strong religious convictions, but it was all in vain.
— from A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 3 by Henry Charles Lea

Each lucid interval of thought Recalls the woes of Nature’s charter; And He that acts as wise men ought, But lives— as Saints have died—a martyr. ”
— from The Love Affairs of Lord Byron by Francis Henry Gribble

But in 1716 an event occurred which brought about the 83 formation of the Royal Gun Factory, and the manufacture of both land and sea ordnance by the state.
— from The Evolution of Naval Armament by Frederick Leslie Robertson

[879] MSS. of Bodleian Library, Arch Seld.
— from A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 2 by Henry Charles Lea

The Recall has been used chiefly against city officials, though in several states it may be applied to a majority of both local and state officials.
— from Problems in American Democracy by Thames Williamson

3. Make of bean leaves a strong tea, and drink freely.
— from Barkham Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 by Barkham Burroughs

"One of the smaller sides is regarded as its top, and measuring downward from the margin, or border line, a space of not less than 1 1 ⁄ 4 inches is to be left blank for the insertion of title, name, number and date, to be put in by the patent officials.
— from The Library of Work and Play: Mechanics, Indoors and Out by Fred. T. (Frederick Thomas) Hodgson