This is done by forming narrow paths, very smooth, and crossing each other at right angles throughout the entire extent of the rookery.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

Sam, having been formally delivered into the warder’s custody, to the intense astonishment of Roker, and to the evident emotion of even the phlegmatic Neddy, passed at once into the prison, walked straight to his master’s room, and knocked at the door.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

If I am not mistaken, it was this same Courier's editor, one Homer by name, who, some years before, had placarded the city to excite a riot against Thompson, the English Emancipationist, and who had been largely instrumental in fostering trouble for Garrison and Phillips.
— from John Brown: A Retrospect Read before The Worcester Society of Antiquity, Dec. 2, 1884. by Alfred S. (Alfred Seelye) Roe

The amount he had lost himself, in consequence, was of not the slightest moment to him, although he was extravagant enough to run almost to the end even of his own princely tether in money matters; but that “Beauty” should be cut down was more vexatious to him than any evil accident that could have befallen himself, and he guessed pretty nearly the terrible influence the dead failure would have on his friend's position.
— from Under Two Flags by Ouida

Macintyre’s first act was to subject the propeller nut to a very careful examination, after which he fixed a big spanner in position and threw his whole weight upon it, assisted by Jack, who was pulling at a rope attached to the extreme end of the spanner handle.
— from The Cruise of the Thetis: A Tale of the Cuban Insurrection by Harry Collingwood

The ancient idea of endless roots attributed to the Earth, evidently left much to be desired to minds anxious to go to the bottom of things.
— from Urania by Camille Flammarion

I was referring to the fact that brevity is the soul of wit, and that the Scotch author's remark about the three editors expressed my fear in addressing so many members of the Government as were present.
— from The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 2 by Harry Furniss

[795] e.g. 114, 29; 180, 15; 216, 9; the references are to the E. E. T. S. edition by Dr. Miller.
— from The Life and Times of Alfred the Great Being the Ford lectures for 1901 by Charles Plummer

It's strange that it should be so hard to realize a thing that every experience of life teaches.
— from A Modern Instance by William Dean Howells

At the same time it may be readily admitted that the east end, designed on Norman lines, which the architect substituted, has considerable beauty, and harmonises with the general tone of the building.
— from Oxford by Robert Peel