After each launch, the Agena stage’s booster engine was fired to send the spacecraft on a 90-hour coasting trajectory to the Moon, about 386,160 kilometers (240,000 miles) distant.
— from Rockets, Missiles, and Spacecraft of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution by Lynne C. Murphy

The nobles, whose power had become exorbitant during the reign of Stephen, and whom the prudence of Henry the Second had scarce reduced to some degree of subjection to the crown, had now resumed their ancient license in its utmost extent; despising the feeble interference of the English Council of State, fortifying their castles, increasing the number of their dependants, reducing all around them to a state of vassalage, and striving by every means in their power, to place themselves each at the head of such forces as might enable him to make a figure in the national convulsions which appeared to be impending.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

But when one is five-and-twenty, one has not chalk-stones at one's finger-ends that the touch of a handsome girl should be entirely indifferent.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

The lord, pointing to the little bird, declared solemnly, that if any 'vilain' succeeded in piercing him with an arrow he should be exempt from that year's dues.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

Aunt Jamesina was a tiny old woman with a little, softly-triangular face, and large, soft blue eyes that were alight with unquenchable youth, and as full of hopes as a girl’s.
— from Anne of the Island by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

It is necessary that the study of the military sciences should be encouraged and rewarded, as well as courage and zeal.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

As conversations of this kind afford no great entertainment, we shall be excused from reciting the whole that past at this interview; in which, after his lordship had made many declarations of the most pure and ardent passion to the silent blushing Sophia, she at last collected all the spirits she could raise, and with a trembling low voice said, “My lord, you must be yourself conscious whether your former behaviour to me hath been consistent with the professions you now make.”
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

It suffices that the bees should be enabled to stand at their proper relative distances from each other and from the walls of the last completed cells, and then, by striking imaginary spheres, they can build up a wall intermediate between two adjoining spheres; but, as far as I have seen, they never gnaw away and finish off the angles of a cell till a large part both of that cell and of the adjoining cells has been built.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

This relation of the university and the material prosperity of a country is so marked that the Mosely Educational Commission sent by England to the United States, most strongly emphasized that living connection and necessary correlation between the universities and the industrial and manufacturing prosperity of the United States.
— from Catholic Problems in Western Canada by George Thomas Daly

In her distracted vision it seemed to move, to slip back even as she gazed.
— from Out of the Ashes by Ethel Watts Mumford Grant

So when Hank fell in, and I hearn him splash, being only a little feller, and awful scared because Elmira had always made it so strong, I hadn't no sort of unbelief
— from Danny's Own Story by Don Marquis

In the one easy, or easy-ish, chair sits the Major, that gallant gentleman whose sole but exacting business in life it is to gallop like the devil into the far distance when it is rumoured that the battalion will deploy.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, December 30, 1914 by Various

Above the seat are three arches 10 feet in height, surmounted by elaborately designed tabernacle work.
— from Exeter by Sidney Heath

They then drove to a tailor, a haberdasher, a shoemaker, a hatter, at all of which places Arnolfo took the shopman aside and whispered that the order was for a very distinguished English nobleman, and should be executed without delay.
— from The King of Alsander by James Elroy Flecker

SEE Brady, Esther Wood. WIGHT, MINNIE GIESECKE. Technical drawing.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1967 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

“These, then, the more potent, but also the more perilous of the casket’s contents, shall be explored by no science, submitted to no test.
— from A Strange Story — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron