Trim ran down and brought up his master’s supper,—to no purpose:— Trim ’s plan of operation ran so in my uncle Toby ’s head, he could not taste it.—
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

" It was surprising what a substantial proportion of our real short stop customers were sedate, respectable looking couples of middle age or even past.
— from Four and Twenty Beds by Nancy Casteel Vogel

Foramina very small, practically obliterated on right side.
— from The Beaked Whales of the Family Ziphiidae An Account of the Beaked Whales of the Family Ziphiidae in the Collection of the United States Museum... by Frederick W. (Frederick William) True

He had neither Schöngauer's force nor his fancy, but was a simple, straightforward painter of one rather strong type.
— from A Text-Book of the History of Painting by John Charles Van Dyke

The second painting, one of Roland Savery's, is in the royal collection at the Hague, and may be regarded as a chef-d'œuvre .
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 65, No. 399, January 1849 by Various

," said the old man, "it is true that some professors of our religion, Sofees and others, whose creeds are accursed, have from time to time promulgated heterodox doctrines, which are plausible enough, and entrap the unwary; but they lead to ultimate perdition, and I think you are now too well grounded in your belief to be led away by them, young as you are."
— from Confessions of a Thug by Meadows Taylor