I grew used to everything, or rather I voluntarily resigned myself to enduring it.
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

the river is very rapid and shoaly; many rocks lie in various derections scattered throughout it's bed.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

In fact, some authorities declare that an act of pure reasoning is very rare in the average mind.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

Which speech hath been more clearly explained by Albert de Ros, in verbo Roma.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

The water first forced up is sea water, but the boatmen wait for the flow of pure and potable water, which is received into vessels ready for the purpose, in as large a quantity as may be required, and carry it to the city.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

Now they might represent in various rude fashions the way in which such an irregularity 392 could be adjusted (an irregularity which must be far more revolting to the human mind than the blind chance that we are sometimes willing to use as a principle for judging of nature).
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

Regular alternation of masculine and feminine rhymes is very rarely found in this simple stanza (or indeed in any Middle English stanzas); it is, properly speaking, only a series of rhyming couplets with a stop after every fourth line.
— from A History of English Versification by J. (Jakob) Schipper

Rabble, crowd, mob, CANAILLE , the vulgar, the populace, dregs of the people, scum of society, swinish multitude, riff-raff, ignoble vulgar, rag-tag-and-bob-tail.
— from A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous or Parallel Expressions Designed as a Practical Guide to Aptness and Variety of Phraseology by Richard Soule

The distance from Antioquia to Anzerma is seventy leagues, and the road is very rough, with naked hills and few trees.
— from The travels of Pedro de Cieza de Léon, A.D. 1532-50, contained in the first part of his Chronicle of Peru by Pedro de Cieza de León

It is, then, evident that there is no reason for changing the Irish Concovar or Conor to Cornelius, except a fancied resemblance between the sounds of both; but this resemblance is very remote indeed.
— from The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 51, June 19, 1841 by Various

Roses, ranged in valiant row, I will never think that she passed you by!
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition by Robert Browning

The microcephalic cranium is of inferior type, suggesting that of the ape—in other words, it is a cranium which has mechanically adapted itself to a brain of inferior volume: the macrocephalic cranium, especially if the abnormality is due to rickets or to hydrocephaly , calls to mind the infantile type of cranium; it has the characteristic bulging forehead, while mechanical adaptation frequently renders it very round (pathological brachycephaly).
— from Pedagogical Anthropology by Maria Montessori

Ausonius had sensibility and remarkable descriptive talent; Claudian, rhetorician in verse, rose sometimes to veritable eloquence and maintained a continual brilliance which is fatiguing because it is continual, but does not fail to be a marvellous fault.
— from Initiation into Literature by Émile Faguet

The continuity of this bed, like that of the deposit on which it rests, is very remarkable.
— from The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland by Hugh Miller

It was an extraordinary effort, for he is a man to whom words on such a subject are the coining of his heart's blood, and he has repeated it very rarely.
— from Robert Elsmere by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

The French army remained in Virginia (Rochambeau having his head-quarters at Williamsburg), ready to co-operate with the Americans North or South.
— from The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, Vol. 2 (of 2) or, Illustrations, by Pen And Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence by Benson John Lossing