Slow decomposition also proceeds in dilute solutions.
— from The Principles of Chemistry, Volume I by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev

"For your punishment, Señor Don Abelardo Peralta, I deprive you of the grand march, which belongs to the first dance, and I give it to the Señor Captain.
— from The Bride of Mission San José: A Tale of Early California by John Augustine Cull

The application of the prepared wool is not particularly painful, whilst by sucking up the superfluous discharge, and preventing its decomposition, it seems to operate favorably on the process of the wound .
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume II by Richard Vine Tuson

Amid much diversity of speech and physique the Chins present some common mental qualities, such as "slow speech, serious manner, respect for birth and knowledge of pedigrees, the duty of revenge, the taste for a treacherous method of warfare, the curse of drink, the virtue of hospitality, the clannish feeling, the vice of avarice, the filthy state of the body, mutual distrust, impatience under control, the want of power of combination and of continued effort, arrogance in victory, speedy discouragement and panic in defeat [419] ."
— from Man, Past and Present by A. H. (Augustus Henry) Keane

So deep and prolonged, indeed, did his distress seem, that his attendants implored him to control his feelings and leave the sad spot.
— from Byzantine Churches in Constantinople: Their History and Architecture by Alexander Van Millingen

Besides, it is questionable if our grottoes are really very large in extent, and it is probable that their exploration would be attended with some difficulty and perhaps indeed danger.
— from The Lonely House by Adolf Streckfuss