But, after all, in order to see, the light must exceed the darkness, and in the midst of the darkness in the water, how can you see?" "Behind the steersman's cage is placed a powerful electric reflector, the rays from which light up the sea for half a mile in front." "Ah! bravo, bravo, Captain!
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

a day’s work or travel, PP; iornay , S2; jurneie , SkD; iourney , S3, C2; iornes , pl. , S2; iournes , H (Ps. 22. 9).—OF.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

The Duke of York, his brother, who was regarded with hostility by the Whigs Modifiers should come, if possible, next to the word they modify.
— from The Elements of Style by William Strunk

On no one spot of its surface could I put my finger and say, here is safety.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

States came into possession of it, the name has been translated, and it is now known as Marmot Island.
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen

And then there is a barrier or borderland, a period about the middle of the sixteenth century, in passing through which the tradition miscarries, and the true outlines of Giorgione's work and person become obscured.
— from The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry by Walter Pater

Adders, Toads, Spiders, &c. it provokes urine, and expels wind.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

But, O noble sir, consider I pray, whether true generosity and true happiness, do not consist in somewhat else rather, than in the preservation either of our, or other men's lives.
— from Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

Hebraic Circumcision (From an old sixeenth century Italian print in the author’s collection, representing the scene of the Holy Circumcision.)
— from History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance by P. C. (Peter Charles) Remondino

The social barrier of birth is either gone or fast departing, and each man recognizes wealth as the only way to power; but the concentrated attention of men and nations in this direction has so complicated its pursuit that he must give his whole mind and heart to this alone, if he would hope to succeed in it, or even comprehend it.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

See colored illustration, Plate XV , opposite p. 275.
— from Lowney's Cook Book Illustrated in Colors by Maria Willett Howard

LAWRENCE Being the third volume of the “St. Lawrence Series” Cloth Illustrated Price $1.50 Our old friends, “Bob,” “Ben,” “Jock,” and “Bert,” having completed their sophomore year at college, plan to spend the summer vacation cruising on the noble St. Lawrence.
— from Arthur Brown, The Young Captain The Pleasant Cove Series by Elijah Kellogg

Zilda could not make her father learn the lesson, but it bore fruit afterwards when she came into power.
— from A Dozen Ways Of Love by L. (Lily) Dougall

Even generals on foreign service carried in panniers on muleback the little coloured cubes or tessellæ for laying down a pavement in each camping-place, to be taken up again when they moved forward.
— from On the Art of Writing Lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge 1913-1914 by Arthur Quiller-Couch