Many varieties, hybrids between this species and the next, are very common.
— from Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination by A. C. (Austin Craig) Apgar

In studying their more suggestive passages, you would now and then feel surprise at the number and variety of important practical relations arising out of a single proposition.
— from Memoirs of John Abernethy With a View of His Lectures, His Writings, and Character; with Additional Extracts from Original Documents, Now First Published by George Macilwain

There were tradespeople and workmen constantly employed close to the spot where the work was going on; while the public character of the place makes it impossible to suppose that tenants such as Percy and his friends, who were little better than lodgers, could claim the exclusive use of anything beyond the rooms they rented—even when allowed the use of them—or could shut against the neighbours and visitors in general the precincts of so frequented a spot.”
— from What Gunpowder Plot Was by Samuel Rawson Gardiner

A cat prowled past, velvet-footed, silent as the night, a vanishing gray streak, intent and terrible, concentrated wholly on prey.
— from Fräulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther by Elizabeth Von Arnim

If poetry nourished the love of valorous knighthood, learning was equally its friend; and when Spenser addressed Sidney as the noble and virtuous gentleman, and most worthy of all titles of learning and chivalry, he spoke the feeling of his age, that the accomplishments of the mind were best displayed in martial demeanour.
— from The History of Chivalry; Or, Knighthood and Its Times, Volume 2 (of 2) by Charles Mills

The secession ordinances were illegal, unconstitutional, not within the competency of the State, and therefore null and void from the beginning.
— from The American Republic: Its Constitution, Tendencies, and Destiny by Orestes Augustus Brownson

Perhaps you are a Boy Scout already, though not a very big one.
— from The Silent Readers: Sixth Reader by Ethel Maltby Gehres

Toddie spends the morning in a praiseworthy effort to hatch some chickens; but although he sits down 'ever so soffaly' because he 'hasn't got fessers,' the result is such as to necessitate a visit to the bath-room.
— from Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 714 September 1, 1877 by Various

We must have been five or six hours since we started, and the nights are very short.
— from With Wolfe in Canada: The Winning of a Continent by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty