But she had never felt so strongly as now the disadvantages which must attend the children of so unsuitable a marriage, nor ever been so fully aware of the evils arising from so ill-judged a direction of talents; talents, which, rightly used, might at least have preserved the respectability of his daughters, even if incapable of enlarging the mind of his wife.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

But she had never felt so strongly as now, the disadvantages which must attend the children of so unsuitable a marriage, nor ever been so fully aware of the evils arising from so ill-judged a direction of talents; talents which rightly used, might at least have preserved the respectability of his daughters, even if incapable of enlarging the mind of his wife.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

This lower region is distinguished from the upper by the midriff, or diaphragma, and is subdivided again by [961] some into three concavities or regions, upper, middle, and lower.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

“God raised up Moses and laid his spirit upon him.
— from Helon's Pilgrimage to Jerusalem, Volume 1 (of 2) A picture of Judaism, in the century which preceded the advent of our Savior. by Friedrich Strauss

1, suppose that R is in the principal focus of the lens L; then, if the plane mirror M have the same diameter as the lens, the first, or moving image, will remain upon M as long as the axis of the pencil of light remains on the lens, and this will be the case no matter what the distance may be .
— from Experimental Determination of the Velocity of Light Made at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis by Albert A. (Albert Abraham) Michelson

While this smaller productivity diminishes the maximum wage attainable by women as compared with men, it is evident that many forces are at work which tend to equalise the productivity of men and women in industry: the evolution of machinery adapted to the weaker physique of women; the breakdown of customs excluding women from many occupations; the growth of restrictions upon male adult labour with regard to the working-day, etc., correspondent with those placed upon women; improved mobility of women's labour by cheaper and more facile transport in large cities; the recognition by a growing number of women that matrimony is not the only livelihood open to them, but that an industrial life is preferable and possible.
— from The Evolution of Modern Capitalism: A Study of Machine Production by J. A. (John Atkinson) Hobson

He describes Lough Liath as a desolate moon-shaped lake, with made wells and sunken passages upon its borders, and beset by marsh and heather and gray boulders, and closes his ‘Flight of the Eagle’ with a long rhapsody upon mountain and lake, because of the heroic tales and beautiful old myths that have hung about them always.
— from The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, Vol. 1 (of 8) Poems Lyrical and Narrative by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats

Then I would rouse myself up, for fear of disturbing the dear burden that rested upon me, and look about.
— from The Spanish Galleon Being an account of a search for sunken treasure in the Caribbean Sea. by Charles Sumner Seeley

Last, his eyes rested upon mine and leaped with a sudden light of triumph, so that one might have thought not he
— from The Forge in the Forest Being the Narrative of the Acadian Ranger, Jean de Mer, Seigneur de Briart; and How He Crossed the Black Abbé; and of His Adventures in a Strange Fellowship by Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir

He could not control himself, rose up, made a long stride, and passed through the open window into the garden.
— from The Clever Woman of the Family by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

I had the thought that I might outpace the others, and, getting first to the rooms upstairs, might at least fight for Mademoiselle if I could not save her.
— from The Red Cockade by Stanley John Weyman

"We can't remain here; those flames will roast us." "Make a large circle vunct."
— from Jack Wright and His Electric Stage; or, Leagued Against the James Boys by Luis Senarens

There have recently appeared two most important papers based upon extended researches upon man and lower animals.
— from Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say by Martha Meir Allen