Though Varvara Petrovna had liberally provided her friend with funds when she sent him to Berlin, yet Stepan Trofimovitch had, before starting, particularly reckoned on getting that four hundred roubles, probably
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

And as now she turned towards me, nodding her signal to follow, and went on up the shadowy passage, rows of gigantic birds—ibis and vulture, and huge sea glaucus—glared at me in the false light of their hungry eyes.
— from A Strange Story — Volume 01 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Sterile flowers terminal or axillary, on wood of the preceding season; distinctly stalked; cylindrical, 1/2 an inch long; anthers pale red: fertile flowers at or near ends of season's shoots; scales pale red or green, spirally imbricated, broader than long; margin roundish, entire or nearly so; each scale bearing two ovules.
— from Handbook of the Trees of New England by Henry M. (Henry Mason) Brooks

For having thrown off the capricious secondary rule of man, we shall not be the less, but the more, under the steadfast, primary rule of God; for having broken the force of human, fallible prescription, we shall the more feel and acknowledge the supremacy of flawless, divine law; for having rejected the tyranny of man’s willfulness, we shall submit the more fully to the beneficent power of principle.
— from Essays Æsthetical by George Henry Calvert

"When grandma went to meeting she carried a lovely big black velvet bag; it had a bouquet wrought in beads of subdued color upon it, and it hung by two sombre silk puckering ribbons over grandma's arm.
— from Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 1 by Slason Thompson

But that very resemblance made me recognize the Scotch pretender, Rupert of Glasgow.
— from Condensed Novels: New Burlesques by Bret Harte

Wyndrowes, s. pl. rows of grass in hay-making,
— from The Book of Husbandry by Anthony Fitzherbert