A good colony ought to turn out thirty or forty pounds of comb honey a year beside what they need for winter, which is fifteen or twenty-five pounds if wintered in a cellar, twenty-five or thirty-five pounds if wintered outdoors.
— from The Library of Work and Play: Outdoor Work by Mary Rogers Miller

[2] There are very florid and robust undertakers; but, as a class, and with all the precautions they use, they are unhealthy; and a master undertaker, of considerable business in the metropolis, states, that “in nine cases out of ten the undertaker who has much to do with the corpse is a person of cadaverous hue, and you may almost always tell him whenever you see him.”
— from A supplementary report on the results of a special inquiry into the practice of interment in towns. by Edwin Chadwick

It is a rare privilege for two private individuals, and one of them a convict, to assist at a performance honored by the patronage and presence of crowned heads, and yet be able to encore any particular thing that pleases them.
— from Peter Ibbetson by George Du Maurier

“Why, we poor barbarians, sir, who live as you see us, only in a state of simplicity and nature,”—there was irony in every syllable the impudent scoundrel uttered—“we poor wretches, or rather our ancestors, made the discovery, that for the purposes of convenience, having, as you perceive, no pockets, it might be well to convert all our currency into 'promises.'
— from The Monikins by James Fenimore Cooper

To behold, for the first time, a liquid which your professors of chemistry have assured you was a gas and always would be a gas, is an experience which does not occur many times in a lifetime.
— from McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 6, November 1893 by Various

As smart a pair of Cape horses as you will see from here to Johannesburg.
— from Wild Honey: Stories of South Africa by Cynthia Stockley

When the turn of Sister Marie, who had now lost her good aunt, had come, he began speaking to her in this wise— “Sister Marie, you know of what crime you are accused, and that your pretence of chastity has availed you nothing, since you are well known to be the very contrary of chaste.”
— from The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Edition by Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of Navarre