Among such votive offerings, models and carved and painted representations of feet in stone, or wood, or metal, are frequently suspended before the image of the Madonna, in gratitude for recovery from some disease of the feet.
— from Roman Mosaics; Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood by Hugh Macmillan

If in mass, it should be divided into loaves or rolls, and gently pulled, rolled or folded into shape, when it may also be put to bake.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 05, November 1884, No. 2 by Chautauqua Institution

It is as follows:— "Nearly forty years after Cavendish's great work, his experiment was repeated by Professor Reich of Freyberg, in Saxony, with a result of 5·44; and then came the grander repetition of the late Mr. Francis Baily, representing therein the Royal Astronomical Society, and, in fact, the British Government and the British Nation.
— from New Theories in Astronomy by Willam Stirling

And when we find [Pg 222] a structure in the female obviously designed for a special purpose, and not existing in the male, are we to conclude that some particular race of females, in some remote period of antiquity, among the countless generations of the vertebrata, found that this flexibility of the sacrum would be highly convenient to them, and, having adopted it as a habit, transmitted it, as a specially acquired peculiarity of structure, to their female descendants?
— from Creation or Evolution? A Philosophical Inquiry by George Ticknor Curtis

Calm taps followed by quick strokes, and they seeming inadequate to proper results, one final impatient smash with the axe.
— from The Deep Sea's Toll by James B. (James Brendan) Connolly

As this is a work that pretends to nothing but authenticity, and to be a plain relation of facts, I shall only premise, that, placed in a situation which gave me an opportunity of being witness to most of the principal transactions of the expedition under Sir Charles Grey and Sir John Jervis in the West Indies, and having leisure and inclination to minute down the occurrences as they presented themselves, I venture to appear before the public with such humble pretensions alone, as the result of that opportunity and leisure can give me.
— from An Account of the Campaign in the West Indies, in the Year 1794 Under the Command of their Excellencies Lieutenant General Sir Charles Grey, K.B., and Vice Admiral Sir John Jervis, K.B. by Cooper Willyams