Bobo's appetite showed no evil effects resulting from his scare of the night before.
— from The Substitute Millionaire by Hulbert Footner

These wicked Spirits naturally encourage evil rather than good.
— from The Pleasures of Life by Lubbock, John, Sir

If a glass plate about twenty-seven inches long, six-tenths of an inch broad, and six hun 195 dredths of an inch thick, is held by the edges between the finger and thumb, and has its lower surface, near either end, rubbed with a piece of wet cloth, sand laid upon its upper surface will arrange itself in parallel lines at right angles to the length of the plate.
— from Letters on Natural Magic; Addressed to Sir Walter Scott, Bart. by David Brewster

The period glyph shows no essential element recognizable as such, and its identification as the katun sign therefore rests on its position, immediately following the cycle sign.
— from An Introduction to the Study of the Maya Hieroglyphs by Sylvanus Griswold Morley

So regardful of the rights of the individual had the Jeffersonians been in the early days that many had hesitated about creating Territories in the western vacant lands, lest the people migrating to them should not enjoy equal rights with their fellows in the States.
— from The United States of America, Part 1: 1783-1830 by Edwin Erle Sparks

Not needing flags, they are under the direction of the collector alone, who should be reasonably liberal as to their repairs and supplies, furnishing them for a voyage to any of their American ports; but I think with him their crews should be kept on board, and that they should not enter Elizabeth river.
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 5 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson

Before them and to the right and left rose a vast maze of ragged, splintery peaks and huge ramparts of mountain-walls enclosing plains so far below their summits that the light of neither sun nor earth ever reached them.
— from A Honeymoon in Space by George Chetwynd Griffith

ft. stone; the charge was turned over four times before and six times after watering at a speed not exceeding eight revolutions per minute.
— from Concrete Construction: Methods and Costs by Halbert Powers Gillette

The complete pack consists of fifty-two cards; and each contains a subject, neatly engraved, either relating to the plot or the trial and punishment of the conspirators, with a brief explanation at the foot.
— from Facts and Speculations on the Origin and History of Playing Cards by William Andrew Chatto

“It sounds no end exciting,” Roberta said and her eyes sparkled.
— from The Mystery of Seal Islands by Harrison Bardwell