But the only advantage that can possibly be claimed for the short pins is that they are less apt to bend, consequently more easily stuck into the bottoms of boxes, and require less room; while, compared with the long pins, they have numerous disadvantages.
— from Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects by Charles V. (Charles Valentine) Riley

they just jerked him to a sitting position in the trough and left him sputtering and gasping and blowing water like the cross between a garden spray and a whale with two spouts.
— from Down the Ice, and Other Winter Sports Stories by Harold M. (Harold Morrow) Sherman

A pleasant feature of these dungeons at St. Petersburg is that they are located under the level of the river.
— from The Underground World: A mirror of life below the surface by Thomas Wallace Knox

‘Yes, yes,’ said Lawford, sinking lower even than he had supposed possible into the thin and lightless chill of ennui—‘nothing rash.’
— from The Return by Walter De la Mare

Some persons think that none but bishops should take part in Church synods; others think that none but clergymen, spiritual persons, in the technical and legal sense of the word "spiritual," should enter these assemblies, specially when treating of questions touching doctrine and discipline.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Acts of the Apostles, Vol. 2 by George Thomas Stokes

Wherefore it will not be strange, if the reader shall meet with some passages in them that are less perfect and complete, since he did not intend them for the press, and that they want those finishing strokes, which such a masterly pen was able to give them.
— from The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning

The best and safest plan is to take a light, quick sponge bath in the morning immediately upon rising, and then, after practice in the afternoon, to take just a moment under the shower, and follow it by a good rubbing.
— from American Football by Walter Camp

It has unfolded itself from 1865 to our days with a happy magnificence, and it allows us to distinguish several periods, in the technique at least, since the variety of its subjects is infinite.
— from The French Impressionists (1860-1900) by Camille Mauclair

The char­ac­ter­is­tic symptoms produced by poisoning with aconite, are a peculiar numb tingling sensation produced in the tongue and lips, a sensation in the throat, as if the palate were enlarged and elongated, and resting upon the root of the tongue, irritability of the stomach, a numb creeping or tingling sensation felt in the limbs, or over the whole surface, and depressed action of the heart, and consequent prostration and coldness of the extremities.
— from New York Journal of Pharmacy, Volume 1 (of 3), 1852 Published by Authority of the College of Pharmacy of the City of New York. by College of Pharmacy of the City of New York