At Dinton, on the hills on both sides, are perfect petrified shells in great abundance, something like cockles, but neither striated, nor invecked, nor any counter-shell to meet, but plaine and with a long neck of a reddish gray colour, the inside part petrified sand; of which sort I gave a quantity to the R. Society about twenty yeares since; the species whereof Mr. Hooke says is now lost.
— from The Natural History of Wiltshire by John Aubrey

There are not many blue-eyed, golden-haired girls in these parts, Pansy, so I guessed who she was.
— from A Son of the Sahara by Louise Gerard

Your men have gone home, I reckon, but I'll bet the saloon that you'd have a surprise before you got to the corner.” “Not a pleasant prospect,” said I grimly.
— from Blindfolded by Earle Ashley Walcott

but themselves!—but surely, surely he will not be suffered to remain thus exposed in the approaching season, “—all amid the rigours of the year, In the wild depth of winter, while without The ceaseless winds blow ice.”—— poem poemdiv Perhaps, sir, I give too much room to my feelings.
— from The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 3 (of 3) Everlasting Calerdar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac by William Hone

"How are you, Paunchy Pilate," said I, gettin' off a joak at his expense.
— from Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 24, September 10, 1870 by Various

H2 anchor Chapter 18—Fashion and Physiology “Please, sir, I guess you'd better step up right away, or it will be too late, for I heard Miss Rose say she knew you wouldn't like it, and she'd never dare to let you see her.”
— from Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott

The Steganographia of Joachim Trithemius, who was an earlier contemporary of Abbot Thomas, seemed particularly promising; so I got that and Selenius's Cryptographia and Bacon's de Augmentis Scientiarum and some more.
— from Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M. R. (Montague Rhodes) James

pressure per sq. in., great compactness and simplicity, large and adjustable wearing surfaces, and the entire absence of all finish, or polish, for mere show.
— from A Catechism of the Steam Engine by Bourne, John, C.E.