Productus pectinoides , Say .—Convex valve, with a central longitudinal indentation; the whole surface is longitudinally ribbed, each rib being marked by two striæ, in addition to the central carina.
— from James's Account of S. H. Long's Expedition, 1819-1820, part 1 by Thomas Say

The Street-sellers of Stationery, Literature, and the Fine Arts —among whom are comprised the flying stationers, or standing and running patterers; the long-song-sellers; the wall-song-sellers (or “pinners-up,” as they are technically termed); the ballad sellers; the vendors of play-bills, second editions of newspapers, back numbers of periodicals and old books, almanacks, pocket books, memorandum books, note paper, sealing-wax, pens, pencils, stenographic cards, valentines, engravings, manuscript music, images, and gelatine poetry cards.
— from London Labour and the London Poor (Vol. 1 of 4) by Henry Mayhew

Being a foreigner, and in her precarious position, she cannot venture to charge me with abduction, and, as you may imagine, I am not likely to let her take us by surprise.
— from French and Oriental Love in a Harem by Mario Uchard

On heating a clay to 105° C. the moisture or mechanically mixed water is evaporated, but the combined water remains unaffected [4] until the temperature is raised to more than 600° C., when it is driven off and the clay is converted into a hard stone-like mass with properties entirely different from those it previously possessed (see Chapter VI ).
— from The Natural History of Clay by Alfred B. (Alfred Broadhead) Searle

Teacher , Mrs. A. P. Patterson, Stockton, Cal. ventura.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 49, No. 02, February, 1895 by Various

[31] .... "Pan Pinea semiferi capitis velamina quassans.
— from The Greek Romances of Heliodorus, Longus and Achilles Tatius Comprising the Ethiopics; or, Adventures of Theagenes and Chariclea; The pastoral amours of Daphnis and Chloe; and the loves of Clitopho and Leucippe by of Emesa Heliodorus