221.—THE EIGHT ENGINES.— solution The solution to the Eight Engines Puzzle is as follows: The engine that has had its fire drawn and therefore cannot move is No. 5.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

He knew that each one of these men stood at the extreme end, so to speak, of some wild road of reasoning.
— from The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

It is one of the functions of the Eugenics Education Society to spread the sanely scientific views here set forth by Galton, and as far as I am able to judge, the Society has and is doing sound work in this direction.
— from Rustic Sounds, and Other Studies in Literature and Natural History by Darwin, Francis, Sir

'This English earl,' said they, 'speaks words of truth and soberness, and he asks nothing more than the justice that ought not to be denied to the meanest man in the army of pilgrims.'
— from The Boy Crusaders: A Story of the Days of Louis IX. by John G. (John George) Edgar

Thus Andrea saw his own dire distress reflected in the [193] aspect of the objects surrounding him, and as his own fond desires seemed wasting fruitlessly in this protracted expectation, so the erotic essence, so to speak, of the room appeared to be evaporating and exhaling uselessly.
— from The Child of Pleasure by Gabriele D'Annunzio

That fussy alarm clock is bad enough—I don’t know why we tolerate the old thing anyhow—but when you two get to scrapping, and this confounded rain never lets up, why it’s the extreme edge, so to speak.”
— from The Eight-Oared Victors: A Story of College Water Sports by Lester Chadwick

A standing grievance that her husband had had with her was, that she interested herself in the poor, and in the East End slums, that she went to cabmen's shelters, and espoused the cause of overdriven factory girls.
— from Dodo: A Detail of the Day. Volumes 1 and 2 by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

Some time had now TN: "elasped" changed to "elapsed" elapsed since the seeds of the wheat were sown, and they began to shoot so Page 136 vigorously that the blade of the corn appeared green above the ground, and increased every day in strength.
— from The History of Sandford and Merton by Thomas Day

His house has been a bane to England ever since the spawn of the Scotch courtesan first came to London.
— from The Touchstone of Fortune Being the Memoir of Baron Clyde, Who Lived, Thrived, and Fell in the Doleful Reign of the So-called Merry Monarch, Charles II by Charles Major

"Why, those are the two little children who were on the elevated express," said the store owner, in surprise.
— from The Bobbsey Twins in a Great City by Laura Lee Hope