Dante has given us the Faith or soul; Shakspeare, in a not less noble way, has given us the Practice or body.
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

In the coral-producing oceans such sunken islands are now marked by rings of coral or atolls standing over them.
— 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

Adra (ä′ d ra ˙ ), a seaport of Southern Spain, in Andalusia, near the mouth of the Adra, on the Mediterranean; with marble quarries and lead works.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

C signals to B, "Train out of section," sets indicator at normal, and puts signals at danger.
— from How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Archibald Williams

In the coral-producing oceans such sunken islands are now marked, as I believe, by rings of coral or atolls standing over them.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

On the way out, she stopped in at Number Thirteen to beg Cornelia to smooth matters over with Robert.
— from The Love Chase by Felix Grendon

Her postillion, a lad of sixteen, said, "I am not such a child but I can guess something: whenever my Lord Lyttelton comes to my lady, she orders the porter to let in nobody else, and then they call for a pen and ink, and say they are going to write history."
— from Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume I by Horace Walpole

The name of Stevinus suggested itself as naturally as that of Newton to an Englishman; probably no Belgian is better known to foreigners as illustrious in science.
— from A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by Augustus De Morgan

This afternoon, coming upon Mercy seated in y e alcove, like unto the image of some saint in a niche, her hands folded on her lap, and her eyes steadfastly agaze on the setting sun, I could not but mark how years were silentlie at work upon her, as doubtless upon us alle; the tender, fearfulle girl having thus graduallie changed into the sober, high-minded woman.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.—September, 1851—Vol. III. by Various

The greatest illuminating effect from a given bulk of gas is obtained by mixing it with the requisite proportion of oxygen, and holding in the flame of the burning mixture a piece of some solid infusible and non-volatile substance, such as lime.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887 by Various

“Oh, well, in a manner of speaking, so I am, now you mention it; but still, let us live by the way, you know.”
— from The Speculations of John Steele by Robert Barr

“When do you open shop?” said I. “At nine o’clock,” he replied.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 20 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

From the statue we descended, by a series of stone stairs, into a narrow street, old-fashioned and clean, quiet and secluded in the very heart of the great city, and just opposite the foot of the steps we came to the wide door of a spacious, quadrangular, stuccoed old mansion, with a bit of foliage showing over a high wall at one side.
— from A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors by Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen) Wolfe