Indeed one of the striking and important symptoms of scurvy is the marked susceptibility to infection (furunculosis, nasal diphtheria, “grippe,” etc.), which comes about as the result of the nutritional disturbance.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

" "It may not be," spake up one of those of Emmet.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

Mr. Beebe felt bound to assist his young friend, and led the way out of the house and into the pine-woods.
— from A Room with a View by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

And therefore, if Plato and Porphyry, or rather, if their disciples now living, agree with us that holy souls shall return to the body, as Plato says, and that, nevertheless, they shall not return to misery, as Porphyry maintains,—if they accept the consequence of these two propositions which is taught by the Christian faith, that they shall receive bodies in which they may live eternally without suffering any misery,—let them also adopt from Varro the opinion that they shall return to the same bodies as they were formerly in, and thus the whole question of the eternal resurrection of the body shall be resolved out of their own mouths.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

“The author’s observations on the artificial style,” continued Ellison, “are less objectionable.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

One of their customs is, however, interesting in this connexion.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

Something therefore was wanting as a succedaneum, especially in one or two of the more violent paroxysms of the siege, to keep up something like a continual firing in the imagination,—and this something, the corporal, whose principal strength lay in invention, supplied by an entire new system of battering of his own,—without which, this had been objected to by military critics, to the end of the world, as one of the great desiderata of my uncle Toby's apparatus.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

Then the Sun, from the midst of this place, with those eyes with which he beholds all things, sees the young man struck with fear at the novelty of these things, and says, “What is the occasion of thy journey hither ?
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

In the third, which deals with the arrangements of temples and their variety of form, I showed the nature and number of their classes, with the adjustments proper to each form according to the usage of the Ionic order, one of the three which exhibit the greatest delicacy of proportion in their symmetrical measurements.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

As they stood in George-street, waiting for their 'bus, a high-heeled, tightly-corsetted, gaily-hatted larrikiness flounced out of the side door of a hotel near by.
— from The Workingman's Paradise: An Australian Labour Novel by John Miller

I shaded mine eyes one day when a boat Went curtsying over the billow, I marked her course till a dancing mote, She faded out on the moonlit foam, And I stayed behind in the dear-loved home;
— from The Home Book of Verse — Volume 1 by Burton Egbert Stevenson

I do not really know if I have been noticing Pat very much, as he is one of the guards whom I can trust among all of the prisoners.
— from Spirits Do Return by Ida Belle White

When the crowd saw a British officer in uniform and decorations come out of the station accompanied by the Chief of Staff and two aides, they decided that it was the Commander-in-Chief of the British army who was arriving and gave him a wonderful ovation.
— from A Journal From Our Legation in Belgium by Hugh Gibson

Little time was lost in mere "going into camp," and even before that was done every fifth brave was ordered out to look for game.
— from The Talking Leaves: An Indian Story by William O. Stoddard

If a cow or an horse runs after you, I would have you fear them so much as to get out of the way; but if they are quietly walking or grazing in a field, then to fly from them, as if you thought they would eat you instead of the grass, is most absurd, and discovers great want of sense.
— from The Life and Perambulations of a Mouse by Dorothy Kilner

Of a thousand or ten thousand similar trees, similar in species, in growth, and form, and adaptation of parts, in size, color, general appearance, etc., it is this individual one, and not some other of the same sort or species growing elsewhere, that you refer to.
— from Mental Philosophy: Including the Intellect, Sensibilities, and Will by Joseph Haven

His pretty young countesses ( not the same persons as those referred to in text), who get drunk together tête-à-tête , and discourse on the best way of making more effectual Josephs out of their footmen, are not pleasing, though they are right in holding that no perfume, save Eau de Cologne, doth become a man .
— from A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury