I showed my performance to some pilots, and they eagerly rushed it into print in the 'New Orleans True Delta.'
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

The band of silver paleness along the east horizon made even the distant parts of the Great Plain appear dark and near; and the whole enormous landscape bore that impress of reserve, taciturnity, and hesitation which is usual just before day.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

Although the belief that an organ so perfect as the eye could have been formed by natural selection, is enough to stagger any one; yet in the case of any organ, if we know of a long series of gradations in complexity, each good for its possessor, then under changing conditions of life, there is no logical impossibility in the acquirement of any conceivable degree of perfection through natural selection.
— 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

Among those who felicitated Fathom upon the issue of this adventure, the young maiden seemed to express the most sensible pleasure at that event.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

No one saw Pinocchio again that evening.
— from The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi

1, Plate 42, enters the inguinal canal, it also may descend the cord as far as the testicle, and assume in respect to this gland the same position as the external hernia.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

Diana did Anne’s front hair in the new pompadour style and Anne tied Diana’s bows with the especial knack she possessed; and they experimented with at least half a dozen different ways of arranging their back hair.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

And it is for this reason that it is unfair to demand of a religion that it should be true in sensu proprio , and that, en passant .
— from Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer

If guns can be so placed as to enfilade a line of troops, a most powerful effect is produced.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

“Yes, young Daulat Ras, an Indian student, who lives on the same stair, came in to ask me some particulars about the examination.”
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

At the beginning of the fall term the following questionnaire is sent to high school pupils, and to elementary pupils above the fourth grade: Vacation Report—Grades Five to Twelve .....................................
— from School Credit for Home Work by L. R. (Lewis Raymond) Alderman

Enough has been said, perhaps, about those errors of perception which have their root in the initial process of sensation.
— from Illusions: A Psychological Study by James Sully

1. fasten a cord, and pass it through the pulley P downwards, and through the pulley P 4 to the sledge placed at the end of the wooden road, which is farthest from the machine.
— from Practical Education, Volume II by Richard Lovell Edgeworth

¶ And yf ye se ony tyme of the daye the trought or graylynge lepe : angle to hym wyth a dubbe acordynge to the same month And where the water ebbyth and flowyth the fysshe woll byte in some place at the ebbe : and in some place at the flood.
— from A Treatyse of Fysshynge wyth an Angle Being a facsimile reproduction of the first book on the subject of fishing printed in England by Wynkyn de Worde at Westminster in 1496 by Juliana Berners

[542] and has drawn his portrait in “An Author to be let, by Iscariot Hackney:” — “Had it not been more laudable for Mr Roome, the son of an undertaker, to have borne a link and a mourning staff, in the long procession of a funeral—or even been more decent in him to have sung psalms according to education, in an Anabaptist meeting, than to have been altering the Jovial Crew or Merry Beggars into a wicked imitation of the Beggars’ Opera?”
— from The History of Signboards, from the Earliest times to the Present Day by John Camden Hotten

In each of the above circuits the number of gaps and the resistance are so proportioned as to extinguish the line arc at the end of the half cycle in which the lightning discharge takes place.
— from Hawkins Electrical Guide v. 07 (of 10) Questions, Answers, & Illustrations, A progressive course of study for engineers, electricians, students and those desiring to acquire a working knowledge of electricity and its applications by N. (Nehemiah) Hawkins

There is, of course, no numbering of the pages to guide us. Italians, it seems, are in the habit of remaining stupefied—a phrase I have just translated was ' Son rimasto stupefatto '—on the smallest provocation, and the expression might only mean that this bride of the Raimondi was an Inglese , and plain.
— from A Likely Story by William De Morgan

The slender pinnacles at the ends of the Cloth Hall still stood, and the tower itself had not fallen, though it had been so riddled it seemed in imminent danger of collapse.
— from With Cavalry in 1915 The British Trooper in the Trench Line, Through the Second Battle of Ypres by Frederic Coleman

The thickness of the lines in the drawing should be made to suit the amount of reduction to be made, because the lines are reduced in thickness in the same proportion as the engraving is reduced from the drawing.
— from Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught Comprising instructions in the selection and preparation of drawing instruments, elementary instruction in practical mechanical drawing; together with examples in simple geometry and elementary mechanism, including screw threads, gear wheels, mechanical motions, engines and boilers by Joshua Rose