After long suffering and bitter experience, some panacea might be discovered; as it was, all that received infection died— all however were not infected; and it became our part to fix deep the foundations, and raise high the barrier between contagion and the sane; to introduce such order as would conduce to the well-being of the survivors, and as would preserve hope and some portion of happiness to those who were spectators of the still renewed tragedy.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

But this splendid stock also became extinct: some perished in war, others were removed by Zeus to a happier state in the islands of the Blest.
— from History of Greece, Volume 01 (of 12) by George Grote

The collection showed Mexican holsters, army holsters, holsters with the Lone Star; straps, buckles, bone rings, star-headed tacks, spurs, buttons, needles, thread, knives; two heavy Colt's revolvers, piles of cartridges in boxes, a pair of mother-of-pearl butt plates showing the head of a long-horned steer; pipes, tobacco of both kinds, dice, playing cards, harmonicas, cigars so dried out that they threatened to crumble at a touch; a patented gun-sight with Wild Bill Hickok's picture on the card which held it; oil, corkscrews, loose shot and bullets; empty shells, primers, reloading tools; bar lead, bullet molds—all crowded together as they had been left after many pawings-over.
— from The Man from Bar 20: A Story of the Cow Country by Clarence Edward Mulford

There was evidently an outer coating, and this he removed, when to his utter astonishment he saw a black egg shaped pearl of great size.
— from The Second String by Nat Gould

Baked potatoes are the most wholesome, and their skins should always be eaten; steamed potatoes are next; whilst boiled ones, especially if peeled, are not nearly so good.
— from Dr. Allinson's cookery book Comprising many valuable vegetarian recipes by T. R. (Thomas Richard) Allinson

Such words are, for example, soul and body, eternity, salvation, Paradise, the first temptation, the first curse.
— from Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature - 4. Naturalism in England by Georg Brandes

A creature at once so beautiful and so profoundly sad became an object of interest to others besides Gustave; but in no breast was the sympathy which her sadness and beauty excited so poignant as in his.
— from Charlotte's Inheritance by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon