Then a short, quick run forward—a fault—a check—a try back; and then a slow, steady, confident advance.
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

It would seem almost impossible to pass a catheter through a stricture so close as this, unless by a laceration of the part, combined with dilatation.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

Wherefore, indeed, the Girondins decree that all Sections shall close 'at ten in the evening;' before the working people come: which Decree remains without effect.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

As to the substances used in the composition of glass, they are simply sand, chalk, and soda, either carbonate or sulphate.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

There are, of course, points obvious enough to a Spanish seventeenth century audience which do not immediately strike a reader now-a-days, and Cervantes often takes it for granted that an allusion will be generally understood which is only intelligible to a few.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Passive obedience is as well known in a Government department as in the army itself; and the administrative system silences consciences, annihilates the individual, and ends (give it time enough) by fashioning a man into a vise or a thumbscrew, and he becomes part of the machinery of Government.
— from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

Still two or three more days passed, and Maggie heard nothing of Philip; anxiety about him was becoming her predominant trouble, and she summoned courage at last to inquire about him of Dr. Kenn, on his next visit to her.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

“Believe, my charming sister, that never brother in the world loved with such tenderness a sister so charming as mine.”
— from History of Frederick the Second, Called Frederick the Great. by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

Then the air seemed stiflingly close, and I fainted; and when I came to myself one of the windows was open, and Giulia said she had promised we would not scream, but I think we were beyond the canals then, for I could see nothing but the sky as we passed along.
— from The Lion of Saint Mark: A Story of Venice in the Fourteenth Century by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

None showed us greater attention than the able and considerate officials of the Pacific Coast S. S. Co., the Alaska S. S. Co. and the White Pass and Yukon Railway Co., including Mr. Kekewich, managing Director of the London Board, and Mr. Newell, Vice-President of the Company.
— from In to the Yukon by William Seymour Edwards

CREAM FILLING 1/2 cup sugar 2 tablespoons corn starch 1/8 teaspoon salt 2 eggs 1 cup scalded milk 1 teaspoon butter 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract Mix sugar, corn starch, salt and beaten eggs; pour on gradually scalded milk; add butter; cook in double boiler until thick and smooth, stirring constantly; add flavoring; cool and spread between layers of cake.
— from New Royal Cook Book by Royal Baking Powder Company

we find the slaty beds of the ancient Silurian system curved and vertical, while the beds of the overlying carboniferous shale and sandstone are horizontal.
— from Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

That accounts—” Stopping, she cast a glance around the room, ending with a shake of the head and a shrug.
— from The Mayor's Wife by Anna Katharine Green

From all this it is evident that we must suppose that the solutions of this and similar salts contain an equilibrated dissociated system, containing the salt, the acid, and the base, and their compounds with water, as well as partly the molecules of water itself.
— from The Principles of Chemistry, Volume II by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev