Every day the members of our staff eagerly sought new quarters for their wounded in the private houses of the town, which was now not a difficult task, the garrison
— from With an Ambulance During the Franco-German War Personal Experiences and Adventures with Both Armies, 1870-1871 by Charles Edward Ryan

(In my opinion one should expect salts with a still smaller amount of NH 3 , of the blue colour proper to the low hydrated compounds of cobalt; the green colour of the prazeo-salts already forms a step towards the blue.)
— from The Principles of Chemistry, Volume II by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev

His writings are numerous, several of them originally lectures, and nearly all on matters of vital account, besides many others on subjects equally so which he began, but has had, to the grief of his admirers, to leave unfinished from failing health, among these his "Præterita," or memories from his past life.
— from The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall

The people of the huerta , with that facility which every one displays in forgetting the misfortune of others, scarcely ever spoke of the terrible tragedy of old Barret, and then only to wonder what had become of his daughters.
— from The Cabin [La barraca] by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez