Growing most rapidly and of a lax tissue, these plants were of short duration, and were after death rapidly converted into a mass of uniform structure, such as we have now exhibited in every bed {198} of fossil fuel.
— from Art-Studies from Nature, as Applied to Design For the use of architects, designers, and manufacturers by James Glaisher

Notwithstanding as in the Figure they were to be without Blemish as to their outward Man, and in the Performance of their Work they were to be washed and purified from their outward Pollutions, so now, under the Gospel Times , the Ministers in the Anti-type must be inwardly without Blemish in their Souls and Spirits , being, as the Apostle requires, blameless , and in their Work and Service must be pure and undefiled from their inward Pollutions, and so clean and holy , that they may offer up spiritual Sacrifices acceptable to God by Jesus Christ , 1 Pet. ii. 5.
— from An Apology for the True Christian Divinity Being an explanation and vindication of the principles and doctrines of the people called Quakers by Robert Barclay

Map of United States showing areas where active volcanoes are located and shown later in more detail.
— from Volcanoes of the United States by Steven R. Brantley

The preacher was a man of prayer as well as eloquence, and in his London visits poured out his heart in earnest supplication to God for the effusion of his Holy Spirit upon the vast masses of unconverted souls, slumbering around him in the arms of spiritual death.
— from London in Modern Times or, Sketches of the English Metropolis during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. by Unknown

The adoption of irrigation as a means of utilising sewage, suggests a short consideration of the value of liquid manures.
— from Manures and the principles of manuring by Charles Morton Aikman

Among the excellences of Sir Beville’s Giant, it is told of him that he was by no means clumsy or uncouth, as men of unusual size sometimes are, but as nimble and elastic, and as capable of swift and dexterous movement, as a light and muscular man.
— from Footprints of Former Men in Far Cornwall by Robert Stephen Hawker

“Marcy on us,” she said, as soon as she could find words, “what a dreadful creature!
— from Happy Days for Boys and Girls by Various

There can be little doubt that this Washington rumour was largely the result of the very positive opinion held by Mercier of ultimate Southern success and his somewhat free private communications.
— from Great Britain and the American Civil War by Ephraim Douglass Adams