Then they adopted the precaution of never going out alone or after nightfall, and of having their houses guarded.
— from A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

Their uneasy and melancholy faces also spoke of domestic troubles, of constant want of money, disappointed hopes, for they all belonged to the army of poor, threadbare devils who vegetate economically in cheap, plastered houses with a tiny piece of neglected garden on the outskirts of Paris, in the midst of those fields where night soil is deposited.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

The first is, when two People of no Genius or Taste for themselves meet together, upon such a Settlement as has been thought reasonable by Parents and Conveyancers from an exact Valuation of the Land and Cash of both Parties: In this Case the young Lady's Person is no more regarded, than the House and Improvements in Purchase of an Estate: but she goes with her Fortune, rather than her Fortune with her.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

M. Cervical plexus of nerves giving off the phrenic nerve to descend the neck on the outer side of the internal jugular vein and over the scalenus muscle.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

For the Reviewer admits that Mr. Darwin can be said to have established: "That if the various kinds of lower animals have been evolved one from the other by a process of natural generation or evolution, then it becomes highly probable, a priori , that man's body has been similarly evolved; but this, in such a case, becomes equally probable from the admitted fact that he is an animal at all" (p. 65).
— from Darwiniana : Essays — Volume 02 by Thomas Henry Huxley

P o nẻnte garbín o , the South West wind.
— from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio

There was simply nothing to spy about, except the photographs of new girls on Brown's mantelpiece.
— from The Human Boy and the War by Eden Phillpotts

The variation in the inhabitants of New Guinea has often been recognised and is well described by C. G. Seligman who remarks [322] that the contrast between the relatively tall, dark-skinned, frizzly-haired inhabitants of Torres Straits, the Fly River and the neighbouring parts of New Guinea on the one hand, and the smaller lighter coloured peoples to the east, is so striking that the two peoples must be recognised as racially distinct.
— from Man, Past and Present by A. H. (Augustus Henry) Keane

They were in the princess's room, at the time, and Nina, dressed for the street, was pulling on new gloves of fawn-colored suède .
— from The Title Market by Emily Post

Neither he or anybody else has yet found, in chalk and placed there by the process of nature, gold, or anything more like gold than pyrites, although a Press-man, greatly daring, "interviewed" Sir William Ramsay not long since on the presence of gold in sea-water.
— from Through East Anglia in a Motor Car by James Edmund Vincent

In their march to Yorktown they had to pass through 500 miles of a country abounding in fruit, and at a time when the most delicious productions of nature growing on and near the public highways presented both opportunity and temptation to gratify 1567.png their appetites.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 23, April, 1876-September, 1876. A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

The great centers of population such as New York City, Chicago, Cincinnati, and St. Louis, and such other cities filled as they are with foreign population, who have no sympathy with the manners and customs pertaining to these agricultural states, cannot in my judgment be brought under the control of prohibition at any time during the present or next generation of men, and I regard it as foolish to spend our time and our money in such quixotic efforts.
— from Autobiography of Charles Clinton Nourse Prepared for use of Members of the Family by Charles Clinton Nourse