Gonder 130 (1913) has performed some interesting experiments showing the relation of infantile kala-azar to Oriental sore.
— from The Animal Parasites of Man by Fred. V. (Frederick Vincent) Theobald

And he told of the voice in the telephone, and the maddening question: “Why did you want to buy the Flying Scud?” This circumstance, coming on the back of the monstrous improbabilities of the sale, was enough to have shaken the reason of Immanuel Kant.
— from The Wrecker by Robert Louis Stevenson

[210] "Hook had returned to England penniless; but he brought with him stores, the result of increased knowledge of the world and of an observation active under every vicissitude of fortune, which, with his singular facility in composition, were readily reducible to current coin.
— from The Choice Humorous Works, Ludicrous Adventures, Bons Mots, Puns, and Hoaxes of Theodore Hook by Theodore Edward Hook

He entered the assay-house like a whipped dog seeking the refuge of its kennel, threw himself on a stool before the bench, leaned his head into his hollowed arms, and groaned as would a stricken warrior of olden days when surrendering to his wounds.
— from The Plunderer by Roy Norton