The calm way in which the Postmaster General ignores the cost of presswork and paper on which the advertising is printed, exhibits his ignorance of the fact that there is in business an expense side of the ledger as well as an income side.
— from Postal Riders and Raiders by W. H. Gantz

The speed-mad animals roared down the homestretch, finishing the first half of the race in the almost identical position each had taken in the getaway.
— from The Ramblin' Kid by Earl Wayland Bowman

I don't know how I shall muster sufficient resolution to appear in public ever hereafter; and I fear, with all your good intentions, you shall have become the involuntary instrument for driving me out of England before my time.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various

These blood corpuscles are so infinitesimal in size that something like five millions of them are found in each cubic millimetre of the blood, yet they are isolated particles, each having, so to speak, its own personality.
— from A History of Science — Volume 4 by Edward Huntington Williams

Yes, if you lived to be thirty-seven years older than Methuselah, and every genius and potentate in the world should come a-wooing in the meantime, it never would occur to you that you could possibly be anything, even to an insane person, except his relict.
— from The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck: A Comedy of Limitations by James Branch Cabell

’Twas owing to his Skill that he had thus preserv’d himself to so great an Age; and ’tis my Opinion, he had attain’d to a greater knowledge [14] of the physical Use of the Vegetables of that Country, than any illiterate Person ever had done before him.
— from A Treatise of Buggs by John Southall

The Gamberaia is distinctly Tuscan, and its projecting eaves, heavily coigned angles 42 and windows set far apart on massive consoles, show its direct descent from the severe and sober school of sixteenth-century architects who produced such noble examples of the great Tuscan villa as I Collazzi and Fonte all’ Erta.
— from Italian Villas and Their Gardens by Edith Wharton

Ii nullum alium cibum nouere, quàm piscium, quos vnguibus dissectos sole torreant, atque ita panem ex his faciunt, vt refert Clitarchus.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 09 Asia, Part II by Richard Hakluyt