There simply won’t be time to run all over the island dosing with Trematox and taking temperatures, and while that sort of thing is routine, it should be supervised.
— from The Lani People by Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) Bone

But the spectroscope shows another state of things: it reveals in some of these comets an incandescent gas—usually some of the combinations of carbon.
— from Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work by Henry White Warren

While on the south side of the belt of rains the difference is actually against the theory —and the same state of things is reversed in summer, when the sun is vertical at the north.
— from The Philosophy of the Weather. And a Guide to Its Changes by T. B. (Thomas Belden) Butler

Report, however, said differently; the impression in the country was, that “Mary's”—as it was briefly styled—had a readier share of business than many a more promising and pretentious hotel; in fact, it was generally believed to be the resort of all the smugglers of the coast; and the market, where the shopkeepers of the interior repaired in secret to purchase the contraband wares and “run goods,” which poured into the country from the shores of France and Holland.
— from The O'Donoghue: Tale of Ireland Fifty Years Ago by Charles James Lever

In form and treatment, especially in the employment of wind instruments almost solo, and in the bravura voice passages, it more closely resembles the traditional Italian aria than any other of the original songs in Don Giovanni; but, in spite of this, it renders important service to the characterisation.
— from Life of Mozart, Vol. 3 (of 3) by Otto Jahn