A word was put in for a second young Cox; and at last, Mr. Weston naming one family of cousins who must be included, and another of very old acquaintance who could not be left out, it became a certainty that the five couple would be at least ten, and a very interesting speculation in what possible manner they could be disposed of.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

[21] They are also variable in function.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

"Whose grand coach is this?" asked a very inquisitive body.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

we sent out several hunters to scower the country, to this we were induced not so much from the want of provision as to discover the Indians whome we had reasons to believe were in the neighbourhood, from the circumstance of one of their dogs comeing to us this morning shortly after we landed; we still beleive ourselves in the country usually hunted by the Assinniboins, and as they are a vicious illy disposed nation we think it best to be on our guard, accordingly we inspected the arms and accoutrements the party and found them all in good order.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

When Alexandra observed how things went, and that there were small hopes that she herself should escape the like treatment from Herod, she changed her behavior to quite the reverse of what might have been expected from her former boldness, and this after a very indecent manner; for out of her desire to show how entirely ignorant she was of the crimes laid against Mariamne, she leaped out of her place, and reproached her daughter in the hearing of all the people; and cried out that she had been an ill woman, and ungrateful to her husband, and that her punishment came justly upon her for such her insolent behavior, for that she had not made proper returns to him who had been their common benefactor.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

And as the electors, chosen in each State, are to assemble and vote in the State in which they are chosen, this detached and divided situation will expose them much less to heats and ferments, which might be communicated from them to the people, than if they were all to be convened at one time, in one place.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

The share-lists were speedily filled up, and an enormous traffic carried on in shares, while, of course, every means were resorted to to raise them to an artificial value in the market.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

They are also visible in the winter months, and about the south pole, but they have no rays proceeding from them.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

Imagination perpetually peers and creeps further down the avenues and vistas in the tubes of science, and one fancies every frantic reversal of proportions; the earwig striding across the echoing plain like an elephant, or the grasshopper coming roaring above our roofs like a vast aeroplane, as he leaps from Hertfordshire to Surrey.
— from What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Prophecies and miracles, we are told, have long since ceased upon the earth, as permitted only, by Divine goodness, to those ages when faith was not firmly established, and revelation needed the active and visible interference of Divine influence to make its way into the heart of obstinate and denying man.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 64, No. 398, December 1848 by Various

These are all very important operations, and in proportion to the perfection with which they are performed will be the health and comfort of the individual.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 392, October 3, 1829 by Various

They are a very intelligent class, possessing considerable originality, and, what is even more important, thoroughly understanding the art of [pg 126] practical adaptation of costly designs to the necessities of the manufacture, without which the ingenious sketches of the French would be valueless.
— from Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 425 Volume 17, New Series, February 21, 1852 by Various

They are also very intelligent, active and energetic.
— from The Cruise of the Mary Rose; Or, Here and There in the Pacific by William Henry Giles Kingston

There, to avoid a village, I had to keep crawling slowly along the brush near the sea, on the top of that great ledge of rock—a feat I could never have accomplished even in daylight without the excitement; but I felt that I was supported and guided in all that life-or-death journey by my dear Lord Jesus.
— from The Story of John G. Paton; Or, Thirty Years Among South Sea Cannibals by John Gibson Paton

He went away and denounced the theatre as a vulgar institution, which no artist could enter without losing his soul.
— from Mummery: A Tale of Three Idealists by Gilbert Cannan

The German uniforms are of a light gray with [Pg 127] a slight green tinge, and are virtually invisible against the greenish mist-gray fields of Europe, excepting only when the sun is behind to project a deep shadow.
— from The Note-Book of an Attaché: Seven Months in the War Zone by Eric Fisher Wood

Thus at this point in fact we seem to be pressing upon the student of sociology the essential argument of geographical and evolutionary determinism, in fact inviting him to adopt a view, indeed to commit himself to a method, which may be not only foreign to his habits, but repugnant to his whole view of life and history.
— from Civics: as Applied Sociology by Geddes, Patrick, Sir

William of Nottingham submitted to him the names of three friars from whom he was to select one to act as Vicar in the Provincial Minister’s absence (1250?)
— from The Grey Friars in Oxford by A. G. (Andrew George) Little