Pepsin is always found in the stomach juices of all animals, but no digestive action takes place, unless the reaction is distinctly acid, as is the ease under normal conditions, since hydrochloric acid is excreted by the walls of the stomach.
— from Outlines of dairy bacteriology, 10th edition A concise manual for the use of students in dairying by E. G. (Edwin George) Hastings

As it was doubtful whether the vessel had proceeded up the river, I decided on continuing our route to some convenient spot for a camp near Steep Head, and accordingly returned to the party.
— from Journals of Australian Explorations by Francis Thomas Gregory

The plate under thy riet is descryved with 3 principal {183a} cercles; of which the leste is cleped the cercle of Cancer, by-cause that the heved of Cancer turneth evermor consentrik up-on the same cercle.
— from Chaucer's Works, Volume 3 (of 7) — The House of Fame; The Legend of Good Women; The Treatise on the Astrolabe; The Sources of the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

The groceries and dry goods for thousands were poled up that river in dug-outs through that two-foot channel.
— from The Future of Road-making in America by Archer Butler Hulbert

On the 19th of March the flag-ship of Admiral Farragut, with one gunboat from the fleet at New Orleans, passed up the river in defiance of our batteries; but, on the 25th, four gunboats from the upper fleet attempted to pass down and were repulsed, two of them completely disabled.
— from The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 2 by Jefferson Davis

The engine was manufactured at West Point and was placed upon the road in December of the same year.
— from The Railroad Question A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and remedies for their abuses by William Larrabee

We spend part of our busy little lives in somewhat pretentiously undertaking to report its dicta.
— from The Sources of Religious Insight by Josiah Royce

Being myself entirely ignorant of our position upon the rail, I disturbed this busy repose by inquiring whether any one knew where we were?
— from Passages from the Life of a Philosopher by Charles Babbage

If the passage up the river is dismal, what shall we say of the journey through this canal.
— from Nick Baba's Last Drink and Other Sketches by George Paul Goff

I know not whether he swallowed the remainder of the five gallons of whiskey, in addition to his five-guinea grievance, but I could not shake him out of it, although the mate and I tried, alternately, for upwards of two hours; and indeed I never heard whether he ever got out of it,—for when (p. 305) I found that they had to go outside to find another passage up to Rotterdam, I did not think it prudent to trust myself any longer in the hands of such artists, and, taking leave of the sleeper, with a last ineffectual shake, I hired a boat to take me through the passage in which we then were.
— from Adventures in the Rifle Brigade, in the Peninsula, France, and the Netherlands from 1809 to 1815 by J. (John) Kincaid