The clock hasn't been put forrard for the first time to-day, I reckon.”
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

This is signified by the patrol leader holding up his patrol flag for the umpire to see, and sounding his whistle.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

but if men constructed their dwellings with their own hands, and provided food for themselves and families simply and honestly enough, the poetic faculty would be universally developed, as birds universally sing when they are so engaged?
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

When in the perinaeum it approaches the anus we must bend the penis with the instrument in it down to its natural position, for from the perinaeum to the bladder the passage is upwards, and we must push the instrument onwards till we reach the cavity of the bladder.
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

To give one instance, a bulb of Hippeastrum aulicum produced four flowers; three were fertilised by Herbert with their own pollen, and the fourth was subsequently fertilised by the pollen of a compound hybrid descended from three distinct species: the result was that "the ovaries of the three first flowers soon ceased to grow, and after a few days perished entirely, whereas the pod impregnated by the pollen of the hybrid made vigorous growth and rapid progress to maturity, and bore good seed, which vegetated freely."
— 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

So says Arnor, the earls' skald:— "He who the eagle's talons stains Rushed from the East on Throndhjem's plains; The terror of his plumed helm Drove his pale foemen from the realm.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

The court was paved, from floor to roof, with human faces.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

“Take this down, Daddy Lachapelle,” he went on, addressing a little, white-haired old man who had seated himself at the end of the table; and after drawing a printed form from the portfolio, was proceeding to draw up a document.
— from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

His alliance with the Romans of the West was cemented by his personal friendship for the great Aetius; who was always secure of finding, in the Barbarian camp, a hospitable reception and a powerful support.
— 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

What is a possible future for the Western Provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan?
— from Ontario Teachers' Manuals: History by Ontario. Department of Education

Such a passage as the following, grand as is the central idea, is surely enough to show the utter incompatibility which existed between them: "I thought that had Æschylus lived after the incarnation and crucifixion of our Lord Jesus Christ, he might have turned, if not in moral and intellectual, yet in poetic faith, from the solitude of Caucasus to the deeper desertness of that crowded Jerusalem, where none had any pity,—from the faded white flower of a Titanic brow to the withered grass of a heart trampled on by its own beloved—from the glorying of him who gloried that he could not die, to the sublime meekness of the Taster of death for every man: from the taunt stung into being by the torment, to his more awful silence, when the agony stood dumb before the love."
— from Essays by Arthur Christopher Benson

The skin layer ( e ) consists of long slender cylindrical cells, which bear long vibratory hairs; it is separated by a thin structureless, gelatinous plate ( f ) from the visceral or gut layer ( i ), the prismatic cells of which are much smaller and have no cilia.
— from The Evolution of Man by Ernst Haeckel

In preparing facilities for the purpose of immersion, our Baptist brethren invariably sink the font to such a level that the minister and the subjects of the rite may descend into it.
— from A Bible History of Baptism by Samuel J. (Samuel John) Baird

“Perhaps,” he added, seeing that the interest in his condition roused the poor fellow from the thought of his own deep sorrow, “you might give me some advice.
— from By Sheer Pluck: A Tale of the Ashanti War by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Can a debtor be put in prison for failing to pay ordinary debts? 13.
— from The Short Constitution by William F. (William Fletcher) Russell

"What is a derringer, Mr. Forrest?" Forrest, having succeeded in drawing the attention of his immediate and prospective family from the ill looks of Mr. Ballin, proposed to keep his advantage.
— from The Spread Eagle and Other Stories by Gouverneur Morris

Then even in his death would they not have heaped the piled earth over him, but dogs and fowls of the air would have devoured him as he lay on the plain far from the town.
— from The Odyssey of Homer, Done into English Prose by Homer

all the monarchial and ecclesiastical tyranny will be broken to pieces and become as the chaff of the summer threshing floor, the wind shall carry them all away, that there shall be no place found for them.
— from History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Volume 1 Period 1. History of Joseph Smith, the Prophet by Smith, Joseph, Jr.