Meantime the king came back from battle, and the viceroy told him evil about the queen; and his mother, who also believed the viceroy, said, ‘Did I not tell you a woman picked up is never good for anything?’
— from Roman Legends: A collection of the fables and folk-lore of Rome by Rachel Harriette Busk

And if any of those adorable things which your soul loves are on the table, he will sit and watch you eat them, with his hand on his own pulse, and will entertain you with cheerful statements of how he would be feeling if he were eating any of the deadly poisons, until it nearly gives you indigestion to hear him describe it.
— from From a Girl's Point of View by Lilian Bell

The infuriated bull still kept pacing under it, now going round and round, and occasionally stopping for a moment and looking angrily up.
— from Popular Adventure Tales by Mayne Reid

This tissue constitutes the earliest appearance in the animal kingdom of true muscular fibres, and its thickness, which is pretty uniform, is nowhere greater than that of very thin paper.
— from Jelly-Fish, Star-Fish, and Sea-Urchins: Being a Research on Primitive Nervous Systems by George John Romanes

The Mounts are put up in neat glazed card boxes, 1,000 of a size in a box, and are sold in sets of three sizes, viz., three boxes and 3,000 Mounts for 2/6; 9,000, price 6/6; or separately, any size , at 1/- per 1,000 post-free.
— from Stamp Collecting as a Pastime by Edward J. (Edward James) Nankivell

This circumstance is honourable both to them and to him, as far as it goes, but it furnishes some reason for suspecting that our most vigorous moral reformer, so far from propelling us in new grooves, has in truth only given new firmness and coherency to tendencies that were strongly marked enough in the national character before.
— from Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 1, Essay 2: Carlyle by John Morley