During the rainy season it rains a portion of nearly every day, and during the dry season the sky is clear, the air is pure, and rain seldom falls.
— from The Philosophy of the Weather. And a Guide to Its Changes by T. B. (Thomas Belden) Butler

The former alternative is inadmissible, for God is the cause of everything real and positive: omne novum ens est a Deo .
— from Ontology, or the Theory of Being by P. (Peter) Coffey

The beta rays are particles of negative electricity or electrons.
— from A Brief Account of Radio-activity by F. P. (Francis Preston) Venable

There was scarcely any crockery, pewter and tin being its substitutes; and as for chairs there was only one, and that had rockers: a practice of New England that has gradually diffused itself over the whole country, looking down ridicule, the drilling of boarding-schools, the comments of elderly ladies of the old school, the sneers of nurses, and, in a word, all that venerable ideas of decorum could suggest, until this appliance of domestic ease has not only fairly planted itself in nearly every American dwelling, but in a good many of Europe also!
— from Oak Openings by James Fenimore Cooper