If need be, go all the round thyself, and rest not as long as wind and limb hold out.
— from Erling the Bold by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

There was nothing to have prevented the Turkish admiral relieving Nauplia and landing the troops and provisions in his transports; but he feared to enter the gulf, while the Greeks shrank equally from an attack upon him.
— from In Greek Waters: A Story of the Grecian War of Independence by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

My clothes too are rumpled not a little.
— from Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2 by Samuel Richardson

At night the thoroughfares are rendered nearly as light as by day, through the liberal use of gas.
— from Under the Southern Cross Or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands by Maturin Murray Ballou

For, brilliant as was the promise of the Renascence, yet in the time of Harvey, and in the generation immediately before him, the decay of the scholastic methods and the worldliness of the Church, which in the first half of the sixteenth century had favoured the advance of secular culture, had led to a reaction, not against Luther only but also against all liberal learning and science.
— from Science and Medieval Thought The Harveian Oration Delivered Before the Royal College of Physicians, October 18, 1900 by T. Clifford (Thomas Clifford) Allbutt

Thus I suddenly became changed from a simple porteur to a respectable nobleman, and lived for a long while in great splendor and honor.
— from Niels Klim's journey under the ground being a narrative of his wonderful descent to the subterranean lands; together with an account of the sensible animals and trees inhabiting the planet Nazar and the firmament. by Ludvig Holberg

Clearly the one thing which he, unused to any restraint, needed and longed for, was liberty; and even that, if it were attainable, he seemed already too weak to enjoy.
— from A Canadian Heroine, Volume 2 A Novel by Coghill, Harry, Mrs.

Owing to the fact that the pulp on the robusta coffee (though smaller in amount) is more difficult to remove than that on the Arabian, robusta needs at least two and one-half days of fermentation.
— from The Philippine Agricultural Review. Vol. VIII, First Quarter, 1915 No. 1 by Various

[Pg 030] long whity-brown interval between shoe and trowser: Mr. Jennings sits his steed with nose aloft, and a high perch in the general, somewhat loosely, and, had the pony been a Bucephalus rather than a Rozinante, not a little perilously.
— from The Crock of Gold: A Rural Novel by Martin Farquhar Tupper